Today’s anti-war protest
posted at 7:54 pm on January 27, 2007 by Ian
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Charles Ryder was there and he has started to post photos and will soon be posting video. Check back often.
Lifelike Pundits covered it too.
Jane Fonda was also there. (via TPP) I wonder how long it will be until she’s dancing with the Mahdi Army or AQI.
Update (AP): LGF has video highlights from C-SPAN.
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Screw them all! They are trying to nail the coffin shut on this job. They ain’t gonna cut my balls off!
sonnyspats1 on January 27, 2007 at 8:01 PM
My favorite sign there was ‘Purge the Urge to Surge’….sounds like a home remedy for Texas Toiletitus.
Limerick on January 27, 2007 at 8:05 PM
Wonder if all these celebs came on private jets polluting our environment with their green house gasses besides the gas coming out of their mouths. I think they’ve got quite a few planned through March. Don’t these people have a life? Jane Fonda is a traitor. I cannot stand these arrogant, idiotic people. What is their GD plan after we leave Iraq because they love the troops so much? They don’t have one they will let it descend into further chaos then it is now. From what I could stomach of it (about 5 minutes) on CSPAN it looked like these were retreads from the Viet Nam war. I guess they still haven’t grown up. I cannot stand these Moonbats.
Catie96706 on January 27, 2007 at 8:13 PM
My favorite protest sign was the one Charles has at LGF (screencap from C-SPAN). It says “Just Poop” with a picture of an aromatic brown deposit. I can’t for the life of me figure out what it’s supposed to mean, but I had to laugh when I saw it.
aero on January 27, 2007 at 8:14 PM
Kucinich has a wife? Who knew? She will be a plus to his campaign, if she doesn’t pull a Tereza.
R D on January 27, 2007 at 8:14 PM
Why wasn’t an airstrike called in on the Mall this afternoon??
I’m waiting for the AP story and photo showing Baghdad Jane helping hide an IED. Hey! I just had a great idea. How about all those human shields that were going to Iraq before the war, returning now and laying on top of the IEDs as a protest. THEN I will be convinced of their dedication.
TugboatPhil on January 27, 2007 at 8:18 PM
I see the Democrats didn’t waste any time in assembling their foreign policy team.
Coyote D. on January 27, 2007 at 8:21 PM
Of course they did. Didn’t even Jetpool I’ll bet. But that doesn’t matter, it’s not the topic of the week. Next month maybe. But on that point, have you noticed the celebs only want us peons to give up money and quality of life for their causes?
R D on January 27, 2007 at 8:24 PM
Here’s the thing about the Left…It’s not enough for them to oppose this war (or Viet Nam for that matter) on the basis that there is no American interest. One can make that arguement and be patriotic. But the sinisters have to take the view that America is evil, and on the wrong side of the fight. There is no patriotism their to question.
Coyote D. on January 27, 2007 at 8:25 PM
We should have got a jury together, voted for treason and dropped a 2000 GBU on them.
Tim Burton on January 27, 2007 at 8:31 PM
Anyone get an accurate count of the number of protesters? Park Police say “tens of thousands”, but checking over at DU for a moment (forgive me) some posters there are *shocked and amazed look* claiming 300-400 thousand…
JetBoy on January 27, 2007 at 8:31 PM
JetBoy…by Monday they will be claiming a million.
Limerick on January 27, 2007 at 8:40 PM
We’ll call it the One Million Idiots March…
Zorro on January 27, 2007 at 8:42 PM
Wish I could have gone down…after graduating U of Maryland, I shared a townhouse with Peter Wehner who at the time worked for Empower America, but he’s moved up a bit since then.
I might have to give him a call…
JetBoy on January 27, 2007 at 8:43 PM
These people think our (not their) withdrawal from Vietnam was a good thing……….
Never mind
It’s all just too depressing.
billy on January 27, 2007 at 8:43 PM
The only war criminals I see are the ones in that crowd.
They are prolonging the WOT and setting the Iraqi people up for slaughter all in the name of their own cowardice.
I want just ONE of them to show me how allowing the Iraqi insurgency to have full reign in Iraq is a good thing.
Oh right they will only kill each other. 9/11 and 7/7 and Bali and every other attack on the west never happened right ?
I really truely now understand the meaning of the quote “ignorance kills” comes from.
William Amos on January 27, 2007 at 8:44 PM
JetBoy. Here it is.
R D on January 27, 2007 at 8:49 PM
They haven’t shut up for 30+ years.
joeswampy on January 27, 2007 at 8:55 PM
Thanks, RD…And I’m sure the moonbats will have found a way to “up” those numbers…How about counting those with “intent to protest”?
JetBoy on January 27, 2007 at 8:56 PM
No kidding! Fake but accurate. I really meant to, like so be there dude, So, um, I was there in like, spirit. You know, Yhat should like, um, totally count, ya know.
R D on January 27, 2007 at 9:03 PM
Sort of like Woodstock…EVERY single American over 56 was there I tell ya!
Limerick on January 27, 2007 at 9:06 PM
The former diplomat from Saudi Arabia Prince al-Faisal was quoted in the L A Times as stating” The U.S. came to Iraq uninvited they cannot leave uninvited” He is very much in favor of President Bush’s planned surge. As I understand it there has been communication between the Saudi’s and Israli’s, regarding Iran. The Dream team.
sonnyspats1 on January 27, 2007 at 9:08 PM
There is plenty of coverage about this anti-war rally.
There was virtually no coverage about the pro-life rally of last week.
That selective reporting speaks volumes about the slant to the Main Stream News Media-Secular Progressives.
Killing babies via abortion is embraced and is worshipped as a sacred, solemn right. Opposing people who want to kill us, and supporting or brothers, sisters, cousins, neighbors, etc., who are fighting to make things safer for US by completing the mission of stability in Iraq and elsewhere is applauded.
What an upside down world!
William
William2006 on January 27, 2007 at 9:08 PM
watched them on cspan since i’m down with the flu
I can’t tell if it was their words or the medication that made them sound so peculiar.
btw William those pro-life rallies, you guys need to pick your targets better. The doctor I go to had his building protested with those signed of dismembered babies, but outside of that one planned parenthood, its all pediatric/infant offices and nursing schools. Really disturbing especially for those kids.
Defector01 on January 27, 2007 at 9:11 PM
That’s what that poor iguana’s girlfriend said, and look where it left him!
aero on January 27, 2007 at 9:19 PM
I heard Sean Penn came in a small row boat…As an experienced boater since Katrina, he remembered to plug the drain hole…what did ya think happened to that poor iguana’s amputated pippie?
JetBoy on January 27, 2007 at 9:34 PM
The mind set of these people just boggles me…. to be so idealized by the propoganda of the left, college professors, the MSM, and the Democratic party to actually want your country to loose in a war that has been raging for over thirty years, and finally reached our shores on 9/11???
Don’t they realize as the terrorists gain bigger and larger footholds in the US, backed by the ACLU, that they will be targeted, too.
The basic reality is… convert, and obey, or die. That’s it. No truce, nuance, discussion, panel, commitee, editorial page, free speech, protest rally like the one they are demonstrating in now, just conver, obey, or die.
That is what the war on terror is all about, and they can not see it as it looks them in the eye.
Pathetic………
PinkyBigglesworth on January 27, 2007 at 9:51 PM
These idiots want us to pull out of Iraq. Take a look at what happened when we pulled outta Fallujah. It became a taliban style city-state, a homebase for jihadists, a microcosm of what would happen to Iraq. Terror attacks INCREASED and we had to go BACK in and more Troops died because of it. Wake up libs! Your way was tried, it was a disaster that caused MORE misery for the innocent people left behind and we had to fight for the same ground TWICE! If we leave Iraq too soon it’ll become another taliban-like safe haven from which terrorists will plan for, train for and launch from attacks against us. ALL of us! They don’t care if you hate Bush, that won’t save you from their indicriminate attacks. Forget how much you hate Bush and think about how much you love the fact that when you go to Starbuck’s for your latte you do it without worrying that some jihadi will blow the place up with YOU in it!
Tony737 on January 27, 2007 at 9:53 PM
I was thinking the same thing.
Glynn on January 27, 2007 at 10:36 PM
I watched about 3 minutes of the C-Span video and that was all I could take. Medea Benjamin with her “pull out now” slogan. Murray with his stop being mean and persecuting Muslims and then the whistleblower and people cheering John Walker Lindh. I am not a cursing person so I’ll just use symbols. They can mean anything you like as long as it is extremely foul. ****&^^%^%%$$##%^())*^&&(%^%$%^$&## I feel better now.
Glynn on January 27, 2007 at 10:45 PM
Glynn, I like your style.
R D on January 27, 2007 at 10:50 PM
Just watched CTV news here in Canada and they were using the “tens of thousands” quote as well.
The thing is there was only one wide shot of the crowd and a rough (and very UN-scientific) guess was, maybe, three thousand in that shot although my wife said fewer. All of the rest of the shots were closeups of the crowd and a semi-wide of the podium that showed about two hundred people.
So, where are the long shots of the mall? You know, like in “Forrest Gump?”
I may be wrong and I’ll be willing to admit it if someone can produce pics of the protest from a nice, wide angle that truly shows the crowds.
Until then I’m thinking this was a bust blown up to a triumph by the media.
Mt
Mistahtibbs on January 27, 2007 at 11:25 PM
I had to explain to my daughter who “Hanoi Jane” was and how she got the name. She was fuming!
csdeven on January 27, 2007 at 11:46 PM
Well, at least when Janie goes to visit the Enemy this time, the outcome might be a little different….
Claire on January 28, 2007 at 12:40 AM
I don’t remember those a-hole protestors protesting about Sadasm while he was gassing the kurds.. or when Saddam invaded Kuwait, or when he lit all the oil on fire……
everyone of those protestors is a POS..
retired on January 28, 2007 at 2:27 AM
Dont you just wish we could give thelot of traitors sharia law for just a week… be kinda fun to watch the public beatings that would ensue dont you think..
Viper1 on January 28, 2007 at 5:13 AM
As Claire noted, if she goes to visit the enemy this time, the outcome may NOT be the same as when she went to Hanoi.
In a way, I hope Hanoi Jane actually does go to Iraq. Then “Hidatha” Jane can reprise her photo-op by brandishing an Al Qaeda, shiite or sunni militia weapon.
And the moment she does, she becomes an enemy combatant and is eligible to be (1) arrested and detained in Gitmo or (2) killed on the battle field.
Frankly, it would not bother me ONE IOTA if she returns to America in an aluminum box.
georgej on January 28, 2007 at 6:10 AM
jane will always be a pathetic moron to this decorated Vietnam vet…hanoi jane is too kind of a term for her…
areseaoh on January 28, 2007 at 10:36 AM
I remember back in the 80s when Jane Fonda was trying to rehabilitate her image. She kept saying how sorry she was for what she did in the 60s, and begged veterans groups to forgive her. Well, they generally didn’t for obvious reasons. And now that her true anti-American colors have come out again, we can tell just how sincere she really was about apologizing. “Commie traitor b*tch” is too good for her.
ReubenJCogburn on January 28, 2007 at 11:49 AM
Sadly it’s going to take another 9/11 or more to wake these morons up. And that may not be enough.
Duncan Hunter in ‘08
Texyank on January 28, 2007 at 6:08 PM
It is amazing Jane Fonda has any children, constantly using that slogan “pull out now”.
I can’t believe they pulled that old battle axe out of retirement. This is what you get with democrats, a bridge to the past.
Where the hell is Tom Hayden?
right2bright on January 28, 2007 at 9:56 PM
With what little I could stomach on C-Span yesterday, I noticed how they had the people with the signage continually moving in a circle between the stage and the camera focused on the stage. Switches to other cameras in the crowd picked up audio of people telling the masses to keep moving. Other views from behind the stage showed how small the protest really was. But looking at the circling masses passing between the stage and camera stand, it appeared to be a larger crowd. I found this odd at first but then realized just how orchestrated this event was.
Another observation was the age of some of the “protesters”. They had obviously done this sort of thing before, circa 1960’s. Gee, I hope they at least felt young again! I’m pretty sure they won’t feel shame if we pull out and a bloodbath, ala Cambodia, occurs.
JohnnyD on January 29, 2007 at 8:30 AM
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