Gotta love Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! .......

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26. Kind of iffy on her

I used to love Democracy Now, but then I listened to some live coverage she did of a protest I was participating in, and I have to say, she totally hammed that protest up like there was no tomorrow... For example, the cops were actually being totally, impressively, cool and peaceful. I saw many, many, protesters like standing inches in front of some cops' face just screaming the worst insults they could come up with at them for no real reason, just itching for a fight. A number of the protesters at those things are always pretty much just there to get themselves arrested, and that sometimes takes some doing to pull off... Everybody I saw get arrested at that protest (not so at other protests I've been at) frankly totally deserved to be arrested. They generally had to do something that really was dangerous to others before the cops would arrest them. And the cops were still all please and thank you sir the whole time. A lot of them were making a huge point to smile and try to get to know the protesters a bit and whatnot. I was really impressed by them throughout. But to hear Amy Goodman tell it, it was basically a war zone with storm trooper cops just marching through beating every peaceful protester they could find senseless for no reason... Since then, I've been kind of skeptical of everything I hear on there. I still listen to it sometimes, but there is always a little voice in the back of my head saying that at least some of it is bs.