DC Chapter Patriots' Rally On C-Span (11:20 p.m. ET)

C-Span

[hellinahandcart]

The Good Guys should be appearing in about ten minutes. This will be fun!

[Mudboy Slim]

"Who started a fight?"

They did...but we whupped their arses and made 'em call us "ma'am" and "sir"...BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Then, the cops high-fived US and carted the LeftyPUNKS to the pokey...LOL!!

MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"Most of us aren't quite sure what the argument between Free Republic Network and D.C. Chapter of Free Republic is all about (and I'm NOT asking for an explanation) but the snide remarks tend to make everyone look a bit petty, IMO."

I've observed nothing but outreach from both sides on this thread...MUD

[CounterCounterCulture]

So...what did "gaycommie" have to say?

Gaycommie was messin' with the countercounterculture. Nobody, but NOBODY, messes wit' da countercounterculture. ;-)

Sweetie-nookum's pearls of wisdom >>>

Both the counter culture left and the countercounterculture right are fringe freaks......neither of you have any influence whatsoever on the American mainstream. Both groups on C-Span look silly and stupid. Do something more productive with your time, like saluting the flag and telling faggot jokes

He also dissed Congressman Billybob's tie-wear. Has he no shame, I asks ya?!

[hellinahandcart]

I want details, Mud, give 'em to me!

[Mudboy Slim]

"And I couldn't resist the thread on klinton forcing a table to get up from their dining so his group could sit there (in Little Rock) and a mention of the NPR liberals discussing Wellstone's death as a possible republican plot."

Slick Willie's thugs killed Paul Wellstone or else my name ain't...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"Was Wellstone Murdered?"

Yes!!!! Like Ron Brown and Vince Foster before him, Paul Wellstone WAS murdered by the Clinton RATS!!

Quite Sincerely...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"End Intern Abuse - Vote Republican."

"That was Raoul's brainchild. As a shirt, it was almost as popular as Sore/Loserman. I sold a lot of the END Intern Abuse shirts."

I've got two and wore one yesterday...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"As you're hearing from these really cool Iraqi dissidents, I'm befriending their kids. Their little sons want buttons and bumper stickers and water and just want to talk to us about Iraq. Their little sons were confidently sharing with me at the Welcome Tent their knowledge that Sadam was bad and when they got rid of Sadam they'd get to go and live in a beautiful country, Iraq. Nicest children you'd ever want to me. Smarter than the anti-war protestors on world politics, too. Even the little ones got it right! :)"

I love it, FTH...MUD

[TankGurrrl]

but, when push comes to shove ... very few are willing to translate talk to action. That was true during the Clinton years.

Happy to say that wasn't my experience during the "Clintoon years." My husband and I went to Washington (about 7 hours away) with our then nine year old son for the huge rally on the mall to oust Clinton.

If you believe no one was "acting," that must be because you believed the press about that rally. The reality was we had about 4,000 Freepers on the mall and a whole host of excellent speakers.

Sadly, one of the biggest things that experience taught me was -- if the media doesn't want people to know, you're going to have a hard time getting the word out. There was more coverage of the 100 person pro-clintoon rally than our 4K person rally. If people don't know we're there and what we have to say, it's almost like it didn't happen. And what power do we have to force the networks to publicize something they don't want to talk about?

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, did it actually make any noise?

[Mudboy Slim]

"I am very impressed by your speech--I am listening to you now--and how you are handling questions. You are very gracious and well-spoken. You obviously know more than most of our Congresscritters--Kristinn for Congress, anyone?!!!"

Kristinn cleans up purty nice, don't he?! Tie was a nice touch I hadn't considered...

MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"...how much cheese do you have in your fridge at this very moment?"

Got me a big ol' slab of that there FReeBigGub'mentCheese, my FRiend...MUD

BTW, I like cheese.....

[Mudboy Slim]

"...the leftists can draw close to 50-100,000."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! And I've got some wonderful beach-front property in downtown DesmOines, my FRiend...LOL!! If the Leftists had over 20,000 folks, then I ain't...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"...the leftists can draw close to 50-100,000."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! And I've got some wonderful beach-front property in downtown DesMoines, my FRiend...LOL!! If the Leftists had over 20,000 folks, then I ain't...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"...conservatives don't hit the streets in protest..."

Bah humbug...the RadicalRightWingWhackoFRingeElement shore 'nuff does...LOL!!

FReegards...MUD

[MissAmericanPie]

I was radical by my second freep.=o)

[Mudboy Slim]

"Did any of you get any good live videotape other than C-SPAN?"

'Pod did and I'd pay him handsomely fer a copy...I had my camcorder and got some good pre-Rally footage; however when a dude with a kilt accuses you of carryin' a purse, well, let's just say I discarded my cam-corder prematurely...LOL!!

I can be such a DOLT sometimes...MUD

[Congressman Billybob]

Boy, howdy. I's glad I missed the comment that dissed ma neckwear. For those who may be curious about it, I had it commissioned by Mike Little Elk, a Lakota artist. It is scrimshaw, on million-year-old mastadon bone, of a wooly bison hunted 18,000 years ago by the people who did the charcoal drawings in the caves at Lasceaux.

Suffice to say, that's not an ordinary bollo that one cam pick up in a gift shop in Winslow, Arizona. I wore that, and cufflinks, watchband, etc. to match, for the first time ever at the dinner for the House Impeachment Managers in DC.

Congressman Billybob

This column is based on the fine work by FReepers in a thread on FR. Click for "Ballistics and Bullsh*t"

Click for "Til Death Do Us Part."

Click for "to Restore Trust in America"

[Mudboy Slim]

"I want to say to Fred Mertz that it was a pleasure seeing you again today."

Me, too...it's good to put a face and a handshake with a Screen Name...MUD

[tgslTakoma]

Hi'ya, Mud! I read a few comments from folks saying things about the lack of huge crowds at our rally, and that we should be embarassed by the low turnout, blah, blah, blah.

A couple of things come to mind:

If we didn't do it, it looks like it wouldn't have been done, by anybody else.

Because we did do it, CSPAN covered it.

So, it was played on air hours after the fact. So what?

It was played, around the globe to every country that has CSPAN. So our message did get out there, and it was seen by a whole lotta people who otherwise would have only seen the other side and its speakers and vulgar signs.

If we had not had the rally, only one side would have been heard.

We could have had four people and the same bunch of speakers, and it would still be as great a success - because the rally was aired all over the place!

So, let the critics rant away, and laugh and ridicule and mock. The bottom line is this...
The world heard what our speakers had to say.
The world saw who the real extremists were.
The world saw the radical left in a new light, as the anti-free-speech thugs that they are.
The world saw the left as gangs of bullies who tried to disrupt a permitted rally of civilized Americans exercizing their right to peaceably assemble.
The world saw our emcee taking questions from the leftist infiltrators, and they watched as he answered them masterfully and in a most civilized way.
The world saw and heard the voices of some Iraqi exiles whose families suffered and suffer under the gun of Saddam.
The world heard who sponsors the left.
The world may not have been bodily on the Monument grounds with us yesterday, but they most certainly were at the rally because it was broadcast on CSPAN for them to see.

We acheived our goal. The left's message was not the only one being broadcast to the world yesterday. We were heard.