AP: GOP Convention Protesters Create 'Marketplace of Ideas'

publiusforum.com ^ | 08/05/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Talk about a puff piece, this Associated Press short is a story with absolutely no substance. Not only that but after seeing the headline and then reading the story, one is hard pressed to believe they belong together. This Amy Forliti puffery is incongruously headlined "Protesters expected to transform the streets outside GOP convention into marketplace of ideas," yet there isn't any discussion at all of any such "marketplace" or about any real "ideas" in the story. In fact, the only "ideas" are ages old, stale and losing their grip among more Americans everyday.

Oh, Forliti talks about protests filled with prosaic anti-war sentiment, ages old oil protests, anarchists and 9/11 truthers, but there is no discussion of real "ideas" in this piece. Nor does the piece discuss exactly who is organizing these protests, people who are themselves filled with the dead ideas of another era -- just for instance the United For Peace And Justice (UFPJ) is mostly a socialist organization and they are always a part of these coalitions of misfits.

After reporting that a retired 73-year-old doctor will parade about holding a styrofoam gravestone who will be on hand at the RNC convention in Minnesota and after talking about how a "philosophy professor" will agitate for 9/11 trutherism, the AP piece lets us know that these folks comprise a "marketplace of ideas."....

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[Mobile Vulgus]

Oh, yeah. they have "ideas" alright. FAILED ones!

[sauropod]

later

[mainestategop]

OMG what is that!? Why do liberals always walk around dressed up all in stupid looking Halloween costumes? Do they really expect us to take them seriously? And why can't some conservatives go over to Denver and do a serious demonstration about who these people really are? We got ideas and rhetoric that is serious! oh wait I know, we have jobs to go to, lives of our own unlike these freaks.

[ETL]

The co-chair of United for Peace and Justice, Judith LeBlanc, is the vice chair of Communist Party USA. And Leslie Cagan, the National Coordinator for UFPJ, is the founder, and at least former (perhaps still?) Chair of an org called Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. The CCDS is an old offshoot of CPUSA. UFPJ led a massive protest in the streets outside the 2004 Republican Convention at Madison Square Garden. Perhaps 250,000 or more 'useful idiots' and other assorted morons attended and marched alongside the communists.

You can find United for Peace and Commu... i mean JUSTICE! here on this Communist Party USA "Unity and Coalitions" page. They're several nutjob orgs below "MoveOn":
http://cpusa.org/link/category/21/

[WOSG]

“OMG what is that!? Why do liberals always walk around dressed up all in stupid looking Halloween costumes? “

They are narcissistic delusional crossdressing exhibitionists.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

“And why can’t some conservatives go over to Denver and do a serious demonstration about who these people really are? “

The lib-tards were going to use pee- and poop-bombs in Denver. Why I dont know. You couldnt make me go if you paid me.

Civilized people take a pass.

[popdonnelly]

More self-congratulatory crap from the left wing. I’ve been hearing it for forty years now. These people are like small children, who think everything they do is wonderful.

[Fred Hayek]

I see those UFPJ losers nearly every Thursday afternoon in front of Lockheed Martin in Eagan MN. They have their “Honk for Peace” and “No War for Oil” signs. I sing to them as I either drive or bicycle by. “Kill a Commie for Mommie”. Ooops I’m not supposed to do that in Minnestoopid, it’s not being “Minnesota nice”. We’re all supposed to not just tolerate, but embrace the barking moonbats here.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s convention time and the freaks are crawling out of the sewer to participate in their “Port-a-potty of Stupidity.”