Fox News: Counter Rally Shows Support for Troops (ROFL)

[stevedeshazer]

WASHINGTON Military families and others defending the war in Iraq took their turn Sunday to demonstrate on the National Mall (search), if in much smaller numbers, and counter the massive protest against the war a day earlier.

About 100 people had gathered before a stage set up on the eastern portion of the mall as the noon rally began. A large photo of an American flag served as a backdrop for the stage, and country music blared from speakers while other banners and signs proclaiming support for U.S. troops waved in the breeze.

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"We're hoping for more folks," said Kristinn Taylor, a leader of FreeRepublic.com :rofl: , one of the sponsors. "People have been fired up over the past month, especially military family members, and they want to be heard."

Earlier, Taylor said organizers were prepared for 20,000 people to attend the pro-military rally :rofl:, billed as a time to honor the troops fighting "the war on terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170344,00.html

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[MelissaB]

1. Recommended

:evilgrin:

[liveoaktx]

67. VIDEO-my take on the Warmongering Freeper Rally today

Warmongers 'R' Us

[stevedeshazer]

70. Thanks! n/t

[MelissaB]

79. Bwaaahaahaaaa! Jeff Gannon showed up and my senator, Sessons, was

the usual asshat.

Thanks so much!

[ronnykmarshall]

101. La Gannon was there?

Must have taken a day off from cruising the Glorious Health Club.

[MelissaB]

80. Please post this in a seperate thread if you havent already. n/t

[sarcasmo]

2. Big surprise fox news is all over this one. The Saudi Prince owning 5

percent of Foxes shares, will we see Saudi Propaganda too?

[skooooo]

4. haven't we already?

[AX10]

55. We've already seen enough Saudi(Terrorist) propaganda...

from Fox.

[skooooo]

3. 100 people???

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[OhioChick]

5. I just watched some of it..........

they're lucky if they had anywhere near 200 people there let alone 20,000!

:rofl:

[Zuni]

8. nominate this

[OhioChick]

12. Nominated n/t

[Zuni]

6. expected 20,000 but got 100?

:rofl:

Kristinn :rofl:

[demnan]

7. Does that include the 4 who came out yesterday?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Patchuli]

30. I saw like 4 in San Francisco

We made sure to shout Article 2, Section 4, Time to show Bush the DOOR!
as we passed all 4. heheheheheee

[Maine-ah]

72. "Article 2, Section 4, Time to show Bush the DOOR!"

Shit, that would make a great bumper sticker!

[dooner]

9. It's live on CSPAN right now

badness.

[The Magistrate]

10. Doubtless, Sir, They Heard Recruiters Would Be Present

And busily found other places to be....

"What a buncha nimrods! What a buncha ultra-maroons!"

[Rainscents]

11. Fox forgot to mention there were 20,000 Potta Potty but only had 100 peopl

[Supersedeas]

93. Fair and Balanced??

[seabeyond]

13. was this on fox news. they didnt have our pro peace rally yest

why do they have anti peace rally today? i ask innocently

[MADem]

35. It is on CSPAN

All they are doing is crying about their dead and beating up Cindy Sheehan at the same time. It really is pathetic, and sad. These people are trying to transfer their grief by lashing out at Cindy, and you can see, in their faces, that it isn't working.

It is horrific, and really painful in a fingernails-on-the-blackboard kind of way, to watch...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

14. Just showed a shot of the rally on MSNBC

the flag was the biggest thing about the affair-a wide shot showed a lot of lawn and very few people-100 seems to be an accurate count. The next photos shown were of the rally yesterday, including a long shot down an avenue-obvious even to a casual observer that there were at the very least 100,000 there.

[Alizaryn]

19. Good for MSNBC !

I was disappointed with their coverage yesterday, much as I understood their infatuation with Rita.

[koopie57]

15. so in other words

those in attendance were kristinn, jimmy bob, billy bob, bobby bob, betty bob, jeb, jib, jab, the dudd extended family and 43 war protestors who were accidently too close to the war rally.

on edit ... and larry who was not counted originally cuz he was passed out in the porta potty.

[jasmeel]

22. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tridim]

25. Don't forget "Larry"

[Evergreen Emerald]

50. Don't forget his other brother Larry

[Pharlo]

56. I think you mean his brother Darrell and

his other brother Darrell....

And, they were probably in the two adjoining porta potties....

[lumpy]

96. Oh thanks for the hearty laugh !

priceless.

[bluedawg12]

16. Faux neoconnie network conflates troops and mission

We support our troops.

We do not agree with this mission.

Faux=Murdick= PNAC= Financial supporter of the Weakly Standard neoconnie rag.

Murdick= billionaire who wants to make more money from I-wreck.

Why do middle class Americans seem so intent on dying for the benefit of money grubbing multinational billionaires?
Talk about useful idiots?

New meaning for "capitalist tool."

[valerief]

17. This woman offering up her kids is nutso!

I wonder if the other 19,900 ralliers are marching on Constitution Ave.

[Botany]

18. I saw just a little of it on CSPAN

I am amazed so media gave 'em equal coverage ....
250,000 vs 100?

[ewagner]

37. I, too, am amazed

so what is the moral equivalence between 250,000 vs 100?

hum?

[me b zola]

90. politically it means that someone has someone has some capital to spend

Cindy, I name you as the person who gets to spend that capital. Point to the elected officials whom you would like to carry out your wishes.

There. That's settled.

[bluedawg12]

20. Pilots mom praises Texas air national guard pilot who

fought in the dangerous air war over Texas during Nam and won the hazardous battle fought in Arizona country clubs gathering donations for poppy's campaign.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

21. That has got to be beyond embarrassing for the organizers.

I hope they didn't make extra sandwiches.

[Im with Rosey]

61. extra sandwiches!

[Roy]

74. actually, I think it was pot-luck

nt

[FreedomAngel82]

83. They always have food

:shrug: Cindy didn't go with food. People brought stuff to her. Was there food yesterday?

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. hmm worst show than here in san diego

they shoudl be proud that we omly had them 10 to one here, it was wat 100 to one in DC? (At least)

[TankLV]

42. Try closer to 3,000 to 1! Not "100 to 1" by a long shot!

300,000 to 100.

Drop 2 zeros from the 300,000 - you get 3,000.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

24. Is anyone handing them enlistments papers ? n/t

[leveymg]

26. This and the small 9/11 "Freedom Walk" show that even the Right-wing

is sick and tired of BushCo's disasterous reign of error.

We are the overwhelming majority.

[mcg]

52. They even tried to recruit me for the "Freedom Walk".

I got three emails at work, the Bush administration tried to get me to attend the pro-neocon rally, which was organized and paid for by the Department of Defense.

I work for the government. Government email resources were used to send out these emails.

The day before the rally I got an email at work saying that traffic around a federal building downtown was likely to be disrupted (on Friday) by anti-war protesters on bikes. Whether there was any basis for this claim, I don't know.
Of course, they don't send out emails about traffic disruptions due to Bush administration activities.

Is it just me, or is this an abuse of the federal government?

[FreedomAngel82]

84. Maybe they were trying

to discourage people from showing up at the anti-war rally by claiming that. :shrug: Only thing I can think of.

[mcg]

87. Yes, maybe it was a sneaky way to apply pressure not to attend

They know they can't just come out and say 'Don't attend the anti-war rally'.

[bluedawg12]

27. right-wing billionaire uses his business and media empire to pursue a part

check out the info. on Murderdick.

This is a good over view about a memeber of the ruling right wing media oligo-porkery.
.........
How one right-wing billionaire uses his business and media empire to pursue a partisan agenda at the expense of democracy


http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=122948

"MURDOCH THE NEOCONSERVATIVE: Murdoch owns the Weekly Standard, the neoconservative journal that employed key figures who pushed for war in Iraq. As the American Journalism Review noted, the circulation of Murdoch's Weekly Standard "hovers at only around 65,000. But its voice is much louder than those numbers suggest." Editor Bill Kristol "is particularly adept at steering Washington policy debates by inserting himself and his views into the discussion." In the early weeks of the War on Terror, Kristol "shepherded a letter to President Bush, signed by 40 D.C. opinion-makers, urging a wider military engagement." "

[valerief]

28. Unfortunately due to the corporate control of the press

This rally will cancel out the hundreds of thousands of people who marched all over the world yesterday against the war in Iraq.

[Patchuli]

34. Nuh uh!

Because yesterday was just a start. We will march until they stop the killing!!!!

[valerief]

36. Okee dokee. But will Bushworld take notice?

I couldn't make yesterday's march but I'm keeping the calendar clear for the next one.

[Patchuli]

104. Oh they're taking notice

that the "small lunatic fringe" is actually the majority of Americans. Why do you think All Hat, No Cattle was hiding out? LOL!!

Don't worry that you missed this one; unfortunately, we're going to have to keep doing this until things are changed.

[Patchuli]

29. LOLOLOL!!!

100 people and that dork thought he'd get 20,000 people who think like Freeptards?! Recommended!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[MADem]

31. I am watching now, and it is BLOWING BACK

They just had two people up, an old geezer who was mad at Cindy, whose kid had died at the PGon, and he was boohooing...it was sad to see how he is transferring his grief to that Gold Star mother, as if that will make it go away, and it ain't working.

These tales of dead children, and more are coming up, just make you wonder WTF the POINT is of this stupid war. They are trying to do the stiff upper lip, noble cause meme, but all they sound like is people in deep pain who are trying, flailing and failing desperately, to find a way to justify a crushing loss.

I know these people are mindless numbskulls, but one cannot help but feel sorry for them, more than anything else...they are just so ... pathetic.

This is such a lame effort, not something to really laugh at--stupid, sad, people, desperately trying to explain the loss of a loved one, and coming up with watery, stale gruel.

[FreedomAngel82]

86. So my question for them is

if they felt all that pain why do they want another mother and father and sister and brother to feel it? Whether it's Americans, British or Iraqi's? Pain is pain no matter who you are. So why do they want others to feel that? Why do they want blood on their hands? I'm sure many of them there are probably proclaiming to be Christians but yet Jesus himself said to "love thy neighbor" and those Ten Commandments they want up everywhere states "thou shalt not kill." That commandment doesn't say you can kill if someone kills you. It's pretty clear. They think they can attack back evil with evil but it never works that way.

[MADem]

94. Misery loves company, perhaps??? nt

[Pithy Cherub]

32. Did the remainder freepers accidentally go to Washington - state...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Nothing like a planned "party" and nobody important came...:rofl:

[OhioChick]

33. Good one!

:rofl:

[BlueJazz]

38. That's funny!....Pithy

:rofl:

[Blue-Jay]

39. Jeez. Even FOX thinks that Kristy is a big dumbass.

How stupid of a RW nutlicker do you have to be for friggin' FOX to make fun of you?

[sakabatou]

40. They are really, really out there...

[TankLV]

41. Priceless! 3,000 to ONE!

Just simple PRICELESS!

[Czolgosz]

43. It's surprising that the Freepers couldn't round up a few more to support

1. The neo-Trotskyite vision of perpetual war where the US seeks to establish global military hegemony as the world's sole policeman-dictator,

2. The idea that death of innocent Iraqi children as acceptable collateral damage,

3. Wholehearted acceptance of the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as a means of breaking the will of Iraqis and Afghans (including children) who have been detained for merely being in the vicinity of Iraqi and Afghan nationalist resistance attacks,

4. Use of the Iraq invasion as the justification for establishing permanent military bases in the Middle East, and

5. The Iraq and Afghan reconstructions as a windfall for Halliburton.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

64. Betchya can't say that sentence all in one breath!

Very nice!

[Up2Late]

44. Hey?!? Where's the Aerial shot?!?

Oh boy, it's live on CSPAN. What are they saying, I'm not about to pollute my mind with their Braincell killing yammering.

[Oeditpus Rex]

65. Here y'go

Aerial shot.

:rofl:

[PatrioticLeftie]

45. And they said

We were the minority!

[RepublicanElephant]

46. notice how many signs and flags are lined-up along the pool...

there are 100X MORE flags and signs than people!

:rofl:

[joanne]

47. I'm SO TIRED of Repukes "supporting the troops"

by letting them die in Iraq!!!

WE are the ones supporting the troops.

And how many of those Repukes are willing to fight in Chimp's illegal war.

Not a single one I bet.

Nope, they expect Democrats to do that.

[MADem]

95. I'm guessing a lot of the troops are tired of their support, too! nt

[Pharaoh]

48. where are the huge crowds!

:rofl:

[Toasted_Halo]

49. LOL! I thought Kristinn was a girl this whole time!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

59. OMFG Me too! ROFL! n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

78. Me, three!!!! n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

63. Kristinn is clearly over-compensation for self-loathing of his girly-name!

[johnaries]

71. She is! Every Carnival has a bearded lady! n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

82. You'd think he'd go by 'Kris' or something. Just sayin'.

[kskiska]

51. Freeps are pissed that cspan won't be repeating

this debacle, and are spamming them with e-mails.

[Ladyhawk]

75. Hell, go ahead and show it. :D n/t

[Maraya1969]

53. Did anyone hear that guy who made a quote from "Lenin or Lennon"?

I forget the quote because I was too curious as to who he was referring to. Certainly he wouldn't be referring to John Lennon, that would be sacrilegious. But Vladimir Lenin, the Russian Revolutionary whom I learned about in school and forgot about until today?

Am I missing another Lennon or Lenin or perhaps he was saying Lemon and in Jack Lemon and the Odd Couple?

I guess I should have found a pencil and written down the quote.

[petgoat]

54. If That's ALL They Can Get to a Rally, You Wonder Where They Got

62 million votes.

Maybe this time they forgot to count all the invisible demonstrators.

[Maestro]

57. These guys would have attended but they were

too busy protecting their homesteads from "terrarists" and Rita evacuees.



This is one of the guys that attended but he was too busy showing off his new tattoo to care too much.

[mshasta]

102. lol

that is nasty!!!! ...

[Catrina]

58. Wow, even Fox can't inflate the numbers

Don't they know the Military Families were at the Anti-War rally yesterday?

Now, if Fox is really fair and balanced, how much coverage did they give to the huge rally in DC yesterday, and in SF and the one in Iraq and those in Europe? I would all day coverage would be in order!

What's really astonishing about the 'patriotcic freepers' is how they are being used by wealthy foreigners with an agenda. Like Rupert Murdoch, and the Saudis eg, not to mention the Rev. Moon, to name but a few. They are such patsies, no wonder Americans have a reputation for being childish and naive!!

Still, I at least have some respect for Kristinn. I remember when all the other Freeps were put in a corner by one of their favorite WH press corps 'reporters', he went out with three other freeps to support the now infamous, male escort, fake reporter, Jimmy/Jeff. At least he's loyal.

And wasn't it Kristinn who tried to take away the offensive sign from a fellow freeper and got punched for his efforts? I think the man has some principles, even though he is so wrong ~ the rest of them just wait for memos to arrive in their email boxes before they decide what they are supposed to do. Maybe one day he'll realize he's on the wrong side.

[mcg]

60. What does 1,024 to 1 look like?

1,024 to 1 is an underestimate of the ratio of those attending (I'm pretty sure it was significantly more than that). This is what 1,024 to 1 looks like:

[stevedeshazer]

69. That's a pretty good representation.

It's quickly becoming drop-dead obvious who is in the majority here.

[Akoto]

62. 100 vs. 300,000? LOL.

If that doesn't give them a taste of reality, nothing will. :)

[jmatthan]

91. 20,000 vs 60 million

http://jmpolitics.blogspot.com

[I Have A Dream]

66. I love how Fox calls it support for troops. It's support for B*'s war...

not for the troops. These people don't care about the troops. We care much more about the individual person in the military than the right ever has or ever will. I wish that more people in the military would believe that.

[PassingFair]

68. Was out to lunch today, and in the corners of the restaurant..,.

TV's were showing CNN.
Too much talking going on in the restaurant to actually HEAR...but captions and running copy supplied the story lines.

They showed speakers under the header "Pro-War Rally" and then they pushed over to shots of OUR anti-war rally, and LEFT THE PRO-WAR HEADER.

They did this 3 TIMES while I sat there!

Subtle propaganda.

:puke:

[graywarrior]

73. So did they all enlist to go to Iraq after?

Or are they headed to LA & MISS to help clean up.

[FreedomAngel82]

76. Someone had the perfect sign yesterday

It said "if we're the future why are you killing us?" They claim to support the troops but don't take care of them either in battle or afterwards. *Sigh*

[Minstrel Boy]

77. I bet the trains were running today too, weren't they?

Amtrack didn't suddenly cancel its service, like it did Saturday, and strand 19,900 freepers somewhere?

[mzmolly]

81. And, might I just say ...

:rofl:

[bklyncowgirl]

85. Sound like the same number of counter protestors that were there Saturday

It was pretty funny. They were outnumbered by the cops. I wondered if they needed a police escort to go to the portapotties.

"Hey Joe, send four of those mounties over to potty 13 along with this guy with the "Bush is Right" T shirt."

[paineinthearse]

88. What kind of coverage did Taylor give himself at freerepublic.com?

I don't want to dirty my computer by going there.

[stevedeshazer]

92. They had a live, self-congratulatory thread 1500 posts long

during the C-Span coverage Sunday.

[paineinthearse]

99. About 10x as many were there in person

If they are so concerned, why cant't the get off their asses?

[ladylibertee]

89. LOL How Pathetic are they? LOL

[Patiod]

97. But our local newsradio covered them "equally"

Never mentioned the protests with mentioning "and counter-protests". For those who get most of their news this way, it would seem as if there were two equal-size groups there.

And we're a solid blue city, but our newsradio station is owned by Viacom, so why am I surprised.

[Sparkman]

98. The LosAngeles protest was absent from local TV and msm radio too.

I attended and can tell you NO msm was there when I arrived (2 hrs late) at 2:30pm. The crowd was diverse and anti-Bush and families and the best of our intelligent citizens. PS the police were photographing completely peaceful protestors for no legal reason. Anyone say Neo-Nazis?

[slutticus]

100. Kristinn Taylor is a guy?!?!?!?!

:dunce:


:rofl:

[MellowOne]

103. Wonder how much BushCo paid them to show up?

Like the staged Town Hall Meetings.

[Rex]

105. Expected 20,000 but 19,900 are no shows!

Yet these assholes get to run the agenda of our country and make foolhardy decisions (which they get away with). The MSM grants them immunity from reproach and any decent is covered up and shouted down.

Foxnews will be remembered as Fascistnews.