Anyone here who was active in the anti-Iraq war movement?

[CTyankee]

I remember being told again and again that "we" didn't know what we were talking about. And that President Bush had "evidence" on the yellow cake and aluminum tubes and who are we to question the intel our leaders get.

And Joe Scarborough was one of the BIG Iraq War supporters. Now he's on Morning Joe telling us that Jeb is stupid for not facing up to the truth about the reason we invaded Iraq...wow, revisionism is great.

[99Forever]

1. Who?

[CTyankee]

2. former republican congressman from FL, Scarborough has a show on msnbc weekday mornings

called Morning Joe. Tows the line for the GOP, altho he plays cute and pretends to see both sides of the argument. He is trying to weaken Jeb. I don't know who he is supporting at this point among all the republicans running.

[FSogol]

3. Scarbourough's supporting whoever the Kochs tell him to support.

Scott Walker, probably.

[99Forever]

7. And you watch that?

[CTyankee]

8. Joe has lots of guests on the show who don't agree with him and also some who aren't

particularly on for a political reason: artists, fiction writers, actors. I tune out what I don't like and mute him when he's being cutesy. But his political take on a given issue gives me the basic idea of what the RW talking point of the day or week will be. Sometimes that's actually fun to watch because I like seeing republicans being uncomfortable...and being WRONG and getting caught. Joy it was to see Chris Christie's fall. Joe and MIka loved CC and then "cough, cough" it became uncomfortable to like him...heh, heh...that was fun...

[UglyGreed]

4. This post reminds me of Pearl Jam

If you are not with us you are against us..........

[Nay]

5. I was at the DC march of about 500,000 people. You know, that march that was

never described correctly on any mainstream news report? That's about 500,000 who knew that it was all bullshit.

[Duppers]

9. definitely remember that.

Media owners knew they could become wealthier due to a war. And perhaps those who may have wanted to speak the truth feared an envelope or pkg with some deadly white powder. (Anthrax)
They knew.

[bigwillq]

6. I went to a few protests

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in CT, mainly New Haven. And I used to call and mail my congress folks on the subject. I also voted against any candidate that was "pro war" and voted for candidates that were "anti-war".

Not sure if that's what qualifies as being "active" but that's what I did.

[Eleanors38]

10. Yeah, we had a march or two in Austin. MSM was in complete lockstep...

IMO, what credibility MSM had was permanently damaged by its PermaWar® alignment in the early 2000s, and its "Night of the Generals" arms show on nightly news.

Often not remembered (or forgotten) was the reaction of European viewers of U.S. nightly news. The ones I talked to were stunned. They had never seen anything like it before, the complete capitulation of MSM to the neocons and the corporate right. Subsequent murmurs of mea culpa were lost in the the conversion of coverage to CelebroCulture. But locally, the thin gruel of the Austin Statesman now has two (2) daily crosswords, and there has been a drift away from Kardashian's butt.

[CTyankee]

11. A bad time, indeed. I recall it well...