Fox's John Gibson: "Let me clear things up. The May 1st protests failed."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

May Day Immigration Protests Failed
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
By John Gibson

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194043,00.html

Some people have gotten the misimpression that I am anti-immigrant because I have done some carping about the "Day Without Immigrants" protests. So let me clear things up. The protests failed. They turned out fewer people than the big demonstration of late March. By the standards of that day — and the ambitions of the organizers — there should have been five million people on the streets Monday. Instead there were one million. That means 90 percent of illegals in this country did not protest. They either went to work — which is why they are here in the first place — or they took the day off and stayed home.

Why would they stay home? Because they get it. They understand that asking the majority of this country for something like legal status and citizenship is not something that should be done in the streets by millions. It looks too much like a demand. And illegal immigrants are smart. They see no upside in offending the majority of the country. One of the other reasons the protest failed as promised was that the whole movement for illegal immigrant rights has been co-opted by a crowd of political leftists who are hoping to ride illegal immigration into power on election day in November.

Over and over, the leaders of the immigration protests I have talked to on this show and on the radio have been self-described socialists, or key figures in groups like ANSWER, a leftist anti-war group. Many of the so-called organizers of the big "Day Without Immigrants" protest have a long string of quotes on their record in which they promise the day of a Hispanic takeover of this country is coming, or telling "old, white people" to get out of the way. So immigrant rights were being kidnapped by a group of anti-Republican, anti-conservative ultra liberals or, as I said, self-described socialists.

I don't think that's what illegal immigrants want. The ones I know don't want that. They want to work. They want to have legal status. And they want to be left alone, especially by political troublemakers. And Monday those illegal immigrants spoke out with silence when they stayed home and let the political power grabbers lead a much smaller crowd than had been predicted. Like I say, I'm for immigrants. And I'm glad the majority of illegals made the right choice Monday.

[NYCGirl]

1. As long as this gasbag is talking about them, the protests DIDN'T fail. NT

[marmar]

2. Gibson can go fuck himself...

twice. :argh:

[tularetom]

3. Define "failed"

We have no way of knowing if those protest "failed" but my guess is that they were "successful" if they scared dipshits like gibson into putting out bullshit like this. I think he has his numbers wrong but even if only one million protestors took part, coverage of the marches was on every network, front page of all newspapers etc, and my guess is that all talk of mass deportations is dead mostly as a result of the coverage. So the marches did succeed in getting congress to back off all the tough talk.

[warrens]

4. Anti-war people are running the immigrant marches?

What planet does this bonehead live on? And failed? There were 400K here in Chicago, minimum, compared to 200K in March. He's just talking out of his ass.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. There were more than a million. 500,000 reported in both Chicago and LA

alone. There 75,000 in Denver. And how many in other cities around the country?

[Beacho]

6. ANSWER? Really?

Where did you hear this? Can I hear it too? What I hear from the people I know involved here locally is that the events were orgainised on grassroots levels WITHOUT the usual suspect-'professional protestors'.


On another note, what the hell did you expect the PR dept. of Mordor to say about the immigration marches?

[Der Blaue Engel]

7. No, dumbass

People stayed home because that is ALSO protest. Did someone forget to tell him about the General Strike??

Screw him. Fox ass-pony.

[datadiva]

8. Only one possible conclusion then

If John Gibson said its a failure that means it was a resounding success.

[Mr_Spock]

9. That Gibson is such an infantile sycophant that he should be ignored

All of his opinions combined aren't worth a penny IMO.

He's just a RW hack trying to pass himself off as a news person.

Par for the course at Faux "news"...