It was horrible that any of us on the other side of the aisle were critical, or offered an opposing view, or debunked his lies. Nobody listened to our side. And when they try to draw another one of their lovely false equivalencies now - about how HORRRRRRRRRRRRIBLE our side was to bush and what names we called him and blah-blah-blah, what little our side did was NOTHING compared to what their side is doing now. AND ALSO: THEIR side gets MUCH more coverage than our side did. There were entire protests and rallies and weekend-long gatherings that were completely ignored. COMPLETELY. There was this citizens' march through the streets of New York City during the republic-CON convention. It went on, with gusto, an ongoing parade of humanity marching through town hour after hour after hour for two straight days. And the only place you could see it was on CSPAN. The networks ignored it completely. And it took over almost all of midtown Manhattan. But if you hadn't watched CSPAN or gone online to liberal blogs, you wouldn't even have known it had happened.
I attended numerous anti-war actions and protests and rallies during the run-up to Iraq, and I remember seeing NO coverage whatsoever at all but one of them - the candlelight vigil that went on across the country and many parts of the world - on the eve of the Iraq War. Kinda like with Occupy, and also with Moral Mondays. Almost NO coverage. Total radio silence and TV/cable blackout. Another example - it took Michael Moore coming out with "Fahrenheit 911" before ANYBODY realized there had been HUGE protests in Washington DC on Inauguration Day, so much so that bush's limo in the inaugural parade was stopped in the street by crowds that wouldn't let it pass, and they had to sneak him into the White House the back way. Michael Moore had that coverage in his film. He'd scrounged film bins from stuff left on the edit room floors that hadn't been used on the network/cable coverage of the day's events. Just blacked it all out. NOTHING. Not a word. Not a photo. NOTHING. I remember seething during that movie, and so angry by the time it was over that I turned to my husband and said - "do you remember seeing ANY coverage of that, that day? Do you remember seeing or hearing anything about that protest that stopped bush's limo and wouldn't let it proceed (people attempting one last time to keep him out of Al Gore's White House), the protest signs about the stolen election and Selection 2000? Do you remember seeing ANY coverage of ANY of that?" And of course his answer was no.
But for heaven's sake get 13 teabaggers together with funny hats and a few lawn chairs and it leads the Nightly News.
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