Wel, damn. Looks like CNN actually gets it.

[Redstone]

From their report on the protests in DC today: Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, noting that organizers had hoped to draw 100,000 people, said, "I think they probably hit that.

And: A few hundred people in a counter demonstration in support of Bush's Iraq policy lined the protest route...

A hundred thousand of us, versus a few hundred of them.

These numbers make me feel very good indeed. and the much the sorrier that I couldn't make it down there.

And the best part? The Righteous Americans chased bushyboy right out of Washington. Chicken, chicken, buck buck buck. Run to Colorado, Georgie, run away from the big bad protestors; run, Georgie, run.

Redstone

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Yep!! At least Nixon had the balls not only to stay, but to TALK

to protestors.

God, what I wouldn't give to have him back.

Of course, I'd prefer Gore or Kerry or someone GOOD, but if we're gonna go with republican, I'll take Nixon over the last crop any day.

[rsmith6621]

4. Kerry was......

A better choice than bush but not the sollution.

[Redstone]

6. Man, do you have a talent for "nailing it." Who would have EVER

thought we'd be saying "Damn, I wish we had Nixon in charge right now."

But you know what? You're absolutely right, yet again. Nixon may have been a damn poor excuse for a human being, but at least he had a shade of humanity left in him, right to the end. And he was no coward, unlike Georgie the Runner.

A concise and excellent post, mon frere.

Redstone

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Thanks! A friend and I realized that sometime in 2002

maybe in 2001, but I think was 2002, we came to the realization that we were looking at the Nixon years as actually pretty good, in comparison. Then we said, "Holy shit! We're actually pining for Nixon! Are things that bad?" And things were that bad, and, sadly, they've gotten a hell of a lot worse.

Nixon did have his good points - China, EPA, ending Vietnam (even if under pressure, etc., at least he had the courage to own up and do it).

I also think that Nixon cared about America, cared about it deeply. But he was also greedy and paranoid, and that didn't help, and pretty willing to break the law, which isn't good. But I don't think he would have intentionally let Americans die like Fuckstick has done since he came into office - WTC, New Orleans, cutting veterans benefits, gutting FEMA and other disaster response agencies, etc.

[Redstone]

17. Yes. For all the demons who posessed him, Nixon was at heart

a patriot, and cared for America more than he did for himself, at the end.

He didn't contest the crooked results of the 1960 election, because he felt that it would be bad for the country if he did. And this, from a man who wanted the Presidency the way most of us want to breathe.

He resigned, and I'm surprised that it didn't give him a heart attack to do so, because he truly thought it was the best thing for America for him to resign.

He was a twisted, tortured soul, but he was a man, and an American, when it counted.

He would have never countenanced such a craven coward as bushyboy...

Redstone

[eridani]

21. And then he started channelling Dennis Kucinich

No, really.

War is an option whose time has passed. Peace is the only option for the future. At present we occupy a treacherous no-man's-land between peace and war, a time of growing fear that our military might has expanded beyond our capacity to control it and our political differences widened beyond our ability to bridge them. . . .

Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

--RICHARD M. NIXON, "REAL PEACE" (1983)

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Wow- that's impressive!

Thanks for posting that. I never knew Nixon had that side.

[eridani]

24. Easier to do if you are an ex-president, I think

Although I think that Jimmy Carter is easily the best ex-president of the 20th century.

[KaryninMiami]

2. They are wrong. It was far more then 100,000. I'm certain of it!

Sadly, not one Democratic Senator showed up today to speak. I heard someone say Kucinich was there but I didn't see him. I am so disappointed in our party. NOT ONE Senator. Very sad.

[Redstone]

11. That's a damn shame. You'd think there would have been

ONE of them with a few guts. That's disappointing news.

Redstone

[KaryninMiami]

3. Deleted - dupe!

[young_at_heart]

5. The worst part......NO one reported it on TV news

I kept trying to find anything.....all I could find was the hurricane, 24/7. Finally I saw a 15 sec. mention on CNN Headline News, as if it was a simple event. Is the media EVER going to notice? The power these people have over the media is downright frightening!

[Joebert]

7. ABC World News Tonight showed the protest.

Not very long, but they did show Cindy, Jesse Jackson, and some major crowds.

[drbtg1]

9. NBC's Brian Williams mentioned it

They had a special hurricane edition of NBC Nightly News. After the story on Cheney's operation (guess they failed to install a heart or something), Williams mentioned it, said celebs included Cindy Sheehan and Jesse Jackson. Also mentioned a counter protest. As expect from the GE subsidiary, they failed to give attendance estimates for either, making it appear it was equivalent.

[Redstone]

13. "...guess they failed to install a heart or something."

Now, THAT's good commentary. DU will be a better place for having you around.

Well-said; well-said, indeed.

Redstone

[jane_pippin]

8. That reminds me of something my mom said:

We were talking about Woodstock when I was a kid--she wasn't there, but of course saw pictures and the movie. She said the best part for her was knowing that there were so many other people who got it. It made her feel a lot better and less alone.

[kineneb]

10. All the pix on DU/links are great

Sorry to say I have had a bad sore throat today and didn't go anywhere.

What has impressed me about all of the photos is the age range represented. The Vietnam protest marches had mostly young people. Lots of older women and men were there in DC, LA, SF, Seattle
...folks who own property, pay taxes and VOTE! BushCo. should be afraid.

[Ellipsis]

14. 500,000 WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!

Late Blog
By William Rivers Pitt

Saturday 24 September 2005 10:42 PM

C-SPAN is reporting the crowd size at five hundred thousand. I trust their numbers.


:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Mr_Spock]

15. Yeah, the numbers are undeniable

In spite of the distractions of the CSPAN coverage, the protest appears to have been a big success!! YAY!!

[justgamma]

16. I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

How the heck did they find the handful of pro-death people amid the sea of pro-life people?

War=death
Peace=life

Know waht gets me? These cretins don't even have to work for it.
Cindy's group was in Crawford day after day after day.
Then 10 freeps show up for an hour and get the exact same coverage.

Liberal media my a**!

[Redstone]

18. You got that right. Especially the AP, who has a reporter

who MUST be boffing somebody from FR, since she mentions them EVERY time she can.

I don't need to name names...

Redstone

[countingbluecars]

19. A D.C. street vendor estimated

the crowd at 300,000. It sounded as if he had experience with crowds.

[leftofthedial]

20. that ratio is about the true ratio of "us versus them" in Murka

but "they" control the media, the voting machines and the religiously insane

[catmandu57]

23. A few hundred?

From what I've seen in photos and news reports there couldn't have been more than a few dozen, and that's being kind. I think freeper butt got kicked hard yesterday.