The radical left is planning more "anti-war" protests in Washington starting Saturday, and like clockwork, The Washington Post is publicizing and sanitizing it. No ideological labels were applied to the Stalinists of International ANSWER or Cindy Sheehan, but counterprotesters belonged to the "conservative group Free Republic." The Post story even quoted leftists saying they were the mainstream:
The antiwar movement "is far from where Bush would like you to think we are, that we are the fringe. They are the fringe. We are the mainstream," said Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation, which encourages Muslim civic participation.
Reporters Michelle Boorstein and Allison Klein calmly noted that the obligatory "die-in" will be followed by other events: "War opponents are scheduled to go to Washington area military recruitment centers Monday to try to shut them down." If abortion opponents walked into "women’s health centers" to try and shut them down, do you think the Post would just calmly report it as legitimate protest tactics?
Keep in mind that the ANSWER organizers are talking a big numbers game again, which they may have to retract:
The group's permit with the U.S. Park Police is for 10,000 people, a source said, but ANSWER, which stands for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, expects tens of thousands, Becker said. More than 1,000 people had signed up on the group's Web site as of yesterday to lie down at the die-in, he said, which is meant to represent Americans, Iraqis and others who have died in the war. Organizers expect the number to double or triple by Saturday.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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Leftist self-delusion
September 13, 2007 - 08:20 ET by LCT688History, as I recall one of my college professors telling me, is the one true evolutionary process. Current events flow from and are shaped by past events.
While the newly enfranchised left in Congress engages in a delusional reliving of their so-called glory days of the Vietnam era, they are drunk with power and as blind to reality as a Haight-Ashbury hippie on LSD, they ignore and refuse to see the greater currents of history at play. In their bad little Acid flashback Iraq equals Vietnam and the only solution is to withdraw.
Don’t talk to them of the continuity of virulence between Islamic anti-Semitic fascism and Nazi anti-Semitic fascism. Don’t demonstrate to them the parallels between the violence of the Islamic Jihadist bomber killing any and all who might disagree with them in a suicidal sacrifice to their god and prophet, and the Japanese Shinto/Bushido code of the Kamikaze crashing their plans into American ships in suicidal sacrifice to their god, the emperor. For them history has no place in the debate, it provides no lessons learned.
One gets a sense of a Hollywood casting call and all the Democrats are lining up for the hottest new role, one that they just see as a latter-day Eugene McCarthy or George McGovern, and even as they are fitted with the bowler hat and cane, they can’t see that it’s really the part of Neville Chamberlain.
It doesn’t take an historical genius or even much common sense really to recognize that the point is rapidly approaching that the whole situation will devolve into an us or them scenario. Either our way of life will prevail or theirs will. There will be no more time for debate, fruitless negotiations or self-delusion and sophistry. Contrary to the popular bumper sticker, war will be the answer, the only option left to us by an irrational murderous cult of mad men. The burning question then is; will we come to our senses before or after Iran gets the A-bomb; before or after one or more of our cities are laid waste?
Not surprised. I did
September 13, 2007 - 11:02 ET by roconnellNot surprised. I did several searches on the Washington Posts web site.
In the last 60 daily issues of the paper the words "right wing" were used more then twice as many times as the words "left wing". The word "conservative" was used almost twice as often as the word "Liberal".
roconnell aka climate change skeptic
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Well... at least now we
September 13, 2007 - 13:41 ET by KhyrisWell... at least now we know for sure who the 4.6% unemployed are....
what
September 13, 2007 - 14:06 ET by katleewhat? ... is conservative now a bad word?
Anyone want to be on
September 13, 2007 - 15:41 ET by lnthompAnyone want to be on whether they will burn a U.S. soldier in effigy, like these "mainstream" protestors did last spring in Portland?
Lee T.
U.S. Navy (ret.) / Vancouver, Washington
The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.-- Mark Twain