Tolerance of the Left. I guess I'm just a big dumb doodyhead, but I'm still not standing out in New York City in a jockstrap with inane sayings scribbled on my body.
Posted on 09/01/2004 2:17:25 AM PDT by kattracks
New York (CNSNews.com) - Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Fox News' headquarters Tuesday proclaiming that the millions of viewers who tune in every day to the cable news channel are mostly stupid Republicans from middle America.
The gathering brought throngs of anti-Fox demonstrators from divergent groups that included CodePink, Houston Global Awareness, the Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane and the Tejas Bloc.
The rally itself featured typical chants - "Shut up Fox" and "The more you watch, the less you know" - but several participants took a much harsher tone toward Fox News and its audience.
"Republicans are stupid! They watch Fox News," blared a poster held by Karen Minsberg, 51, of Brooklyn. When asked if it was a bit harsh, she told CNSNews.com absolutely not.
"We're not buying your bull*** anymore," she said in reference to the station. "We're insulted. We're angry. If you think this passes for news, go back to f****** kindergarten."
Others brought a more civil tone to the protest, but each expressed anger toward the nation's leading cable news channel.
"I'm a visual artist, and I do subversive work. I'm trying to get a message across, and hopefully, some people will wake up in middle America," said Mike Joyce, 56, of New York. "It's misinformation, and people believe it because it's coming from a TV box."
Getting the attention of Fox News' viewers won't be easy, according to Elizabeth Oram, 50, of New York. She said even movies like "Outfoxed," which accuses the station of pandering to Republicans, won't reach everyone.
"The Fox culture is very seductive," Oram said. "It's always seductive when you're told to hate a group of people, when you're told to fear, when you're told to rally around the flag. Promoting that fear is not a democratically productive thing to do right now."
Another New Yorker, Jay Goldstein, 37, added, "I imagine that the people who watch Fox start out as smart people with opinions that are different than mine who let them be reinforced by the nonsense that Fox News puts out."
At the anti-Fox rally were a handful of Fox supporters, led by Kristinn Taylor, 42, co-leader of FreeRepublic.com's Washington, D.C., chapter. He said protesters had been calling him names and trying to obstruct his pro-Fox placards.
"The problem is they don't like it when an opposing view is presented," Taylor said. "There are only five or six of us. We're off to the side, and yet they're like bees to honey. They just can't resist. It would be a lot smarter of them to ignore us, but they just don't have it in them."
Taylor said he wasn't surprised to see the protesters calling Fox News viewers stupid or attacking middle Americans as ignorant.
"That's because they hate middle America," he said. "They hate people who live decent lives, go to work every day. Not a lot of them do."
While some protesters admitted they rarely tuned into Fox News, Carlton Kim, 23, of New York, said he likes to keep tabs on what the station is doing.
"It's almost like you watch it to hate it. They just have so many voices, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity and his little puppet [Alan] Colmes, the very ultra-liberal guy," Kim said. "Fox is clearly not following by the rules. That's why I'm out here. I'm a pissed off citizen."
Kim said he wasn't pleased with any of the mainstream media outlets, but Fox News was the best place to start. Meanwhile, Minsberg, with her poster in hand, said she had received a warm reception from reporters passing through the crowd.
"I am sure every news organization in town is happy we're out here today," she said. "Every reporter I've talked to is happy we're here today standing up for truth and democracy."
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Nice work. Salute!!
Tolerance of the Left. I guess I'm just a big dumb doodyhead, but I'm still not standing out in New York City in a jockstrap with inane sayings scribbled on my body.
Way to Go Kristinn!
What can one say?
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This is a person I would love to talk to!
It's all been said. Fools don't listen anyway.
Nope, Fox is changing the rules. Telling both sides of the story. Publishing facts. It's called Fair and Balanced. A concept the Dims cannot grasp.
-those who cannot debate with facts and intellect just shout obsenities and call people names...........we are lucky when they are fully dressed while doing this on the streets.......
Translation: Third shift fry cook at the local Del Taco. :)
Reading some DU this morning.. I noticed alot of people are sick to their stomachs over the convention so far.
You know why they are sick? Because they are getting kicked in the stomach this week by the truth, but they will never be able to admit that.
They don't want to hear the truth, they can't handle the truth. They want to live in their own fairytale land where everything is evil White Rich Man's fault and nothing is there fault.
When you keep kicking them in the stomach with the truth, they get more and more sick, and more and more angry and irritable.
CONGRATS TO KRISTINN AND OUR BELOVED FREEPERS!
Given such idiotic mentalities of the demonstrators, is it any wonder that SKERRY--current king of the lie--is leader of the
TERMINALLY DECEIVED?
<img src="http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040901/i/r2646059787.jpg'><p> Thanks Einstein.
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