The parade is on CSPAN...wonder if we'll see the protestors there.

[sinkingfeeling]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The hearse-like fancy-pants Cadillac limo carrying our Feckless Leader

looks well-guarded. Will he get out and walk any part of the route? Will anybody get to see anything besides a big ugly black car?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. There's nobody standing along the streets!! Maybe a handful!

[Gloria]

3. It does remind of a funeral....

eom

[CottonBear]

5. My thoughts too! It's scary looking. n/t

[ohio_liberal]

4. I just switched over

WTF is that sound?

[sinkingfeeling]

6. The Caddie??

[lavenderdiva]

7. sounds like loud car engines? what's with that? n/t

[ohio_liberal]

9. I dunno

it sounded almost like a generator running? :shrug:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. The helicopter that the camera providing the aerial views is

flying in?

[Az]

8. CSPAN I & II are dead in my area

Been dead for a couple of days now. Detroit.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. CSPAN I is okay, but there's a shopping channel where CSPAN II is

supposed to be here in Minneapolis

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. What's that, a band of Redcoats marching?

:shrug:

[CottonBear]

10. Are those people marching in front of the car?

I can't tell on my computer live stream. It's all very 1970's Soviet parade.

[ohio_liberal]

11. HA HA

I see someone managed to smuggle in a casket :)

[RuleofLaw]

12. Wow. lots of protestors all along the route

[Contrary1]

13. Certainly looks like a "mandate". heheheh...n/t

[lavenderdiva]

14. Wow! split screen on cspan.org,

showing * on left, and protestors on right... pretty amazing.

[prolesunited]

15. The split screen is amazing!

I wonder if they're doing the same on Fox.

[Az_lefty]

16. split screen, excellent!

[lavenderdiva]

17. I gather from the increased volume from the protestors that

Shrub and his convoy must be approaching their area... I am pretty surprised that CSPAN is allowing some of their chants to go unedited... Not that they aren't true: 'hey bush, we know you, your daddy was a killer too'

[RuleofLaw]

18. Notice how much faster they are going

past the demonstrators! The SS people have to run!

[maddezmom]

34. now they aren't even running........................ they are on the cars

okay now back to a slow jog....Whimps. :puke:

[MetalFingersDOOM]

19. It's great

I hear just as many "boos" as "cheers" if not more!

[cmf]

20. I can't get on cspan.org

I would give anything to see this.

[lavenderdiva]

22. I think they are going to replay some of the demonstrations on CSPAN2

tonight at 8pm... You can't get on the internet?

[cmf]

28. I can get on DU and other sites

On edit, I was going to the wrong site.

[lavenderdiva]

30. can you get on now? here's a link:

link:

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

try that You really need to watch!

[cmf]

38. it crashes my PC

stupid POS computer.

[nostamj]

21. you could hear "FUCK BUSH FUCK BUSH!!" on CNN

they cut from it but it was going on and on... :wow:

[Az]

25. The mic was set screwy or something

They had cut to a reporter in the procession but you couldn't hear his story. Only thing was the repeated call of one protestor saying "Fuck Bush".

[MetalFingersDOOM]

23. Where's the Black Bloc?

They're the ones that fucked up the last inauguration.

[Shakespeare]

41. uh--how, exactly, did they "fuck up" the last inauguration?

I'd love to know. I have a very different recollection of the event. The protesters were loud and visible. A few eggs tossed here and there. Nothing "fucked up" as I recall--just good, patriotic dissent.

[ernstbass]

26. Has Rummie gone by perched on a missle yet

ala Soviet Union?

[lavenderdiva]

27. what is that guy with the loud microphone saying? its all distorted? n/t

[lavenderdiva]

32. the right screen is blurry for me, but I think that's Schwarzenegger n/t

[LizW]

God, it's creepy!

The loudspeaker guy is saying, "God bless America....and God bless the Predident and Vice President! Wave to them... Let them know that you love America!"

I kid you not.

:scared:

[AgadorSparticus]

42. so THAT's what he's saying? ewwwwww. how pathetic. they have

to tell people to show them some love? i just heard mumbling on the loudspeaker and thought that it was just too reminiscent of some third world dictator spewing his propaganda.

[Az_lefty]

33. .."wave to them, let them know that you love America"

so if you don't wave to the shrub your a fuckin commie?

[Az_lefty]

35. what just happened, they sped up in a big hurry?

[ck4829]

37. They want the armored limos to avoid the big bad eggs being thrown at them

[lavenderdiva]

36. this is frightening...

:scared:

MSNBC states that protesters have broken through the fencing and are being sprayed with pepper spray and medical assistance is needed... FYI.

update: link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2980146

[lavenderdiva]

39. do my eyes deceive me? Shrub and Pickles are out walking?

are they going to go past protestors. Poor Pickles, she has on that lovely winter white outfit too...

[Az_lefty]

40. their walking, but I'm sure well past the protestors.