Posted on 10/29/2003 11:10:25 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
Picking up on a CyberAlert item and an article on Salon.com, on Tuesday night FNC’s Brit Hume informed viewers of his Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC how “we are just now finding out some things about this past weekend's anti-war protest in Washington that the mass media did not include its accounts.”
Hume began his October 27 “Grapevine” segment: “We are just now finding out some things about this past weekend's anti-war protest in Washington that the mass media did not include its accounts. One speaker, a rap musician, chanted 'F--- Bush,' but he chose to use the full four-letter word. The crowd then chanted the same.
“One protester, a high school English teacher from Virginia held a sign saying quote, 'U.S. Troops Out of Iraq, Bring Them Home Now.'
But when asked by a reporter for Salon.com whether he thinks the troops should in fact come home now, the teacher said he wasn't sure, adding that he quote 'would hate for the Bush administration to half way fix things and then leave.' So, then why was he carrying the sign? He said quote, 'I didn't even look at it. I was just waving it.'”
The October 28 CyberAlert reported: Sunday’s Washington Post story on the latest “anti-war” protest organized by some very far-left groups ignored the more incendiary comments from the officially-sanctioned speakers on the stage and tried to portray an image of a group of average people next door coming together along with concerned relatives of those deployed in Iraq.
As opposed to a bunch of hateful political activists. From the stage, to the delight of the crowd which joined in, a rapper yelled: “F*** George Bush!”
But the Post ignored that and saw only how “the demonstrators represented a diverse mix of dissent, from suburban high school students to gray-haired retirees, from fathers pushing their children in strollers to Muslim American college students shouting through bullhorns...” See: www.mediaresearch.org or
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20031028.asp#1
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