Compare OUR message (above) with THEIR message (below) from the Associated Press:Video - 6.2 mb "U - S - A"
Video - 4.5 mb "U - S - A"
Video - 3.7 mb "Four More Years"Those chants were led by TED HAYES, who really knows how to get into the media. :o)
See also, from the Associated Press:
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Many of the demonstrations were accompanied by smaller gatherings of Bush supporters. In Los Angeles, marchers passed by several dozen people who lined one Hollywood block, waving flags and chanting "Four more years."
"We believe in George Bush. We believe in what he's doing," said Gary Beck, 48, who was visiting from Tampa, Fla.
Looks like WE won this round. :o)IRAQ WAR ANNIVERSARY
Voices of protest heard around worldHuge rallies in almost every major city oppose the Iraqi occupation
Verena Dobnik
The Associated PressMarch 21, 2004
NEW YORK -- Hundreds of thousands of people around the world rallied against the U.S. presence in Iraq on the first anniversary of the war Saturday, in protests that retained the anger, if not the size, of demonstrations held before the invasion began.Protesters filled more than a dozen police-lined blocks in Manhattan, calling on President Bush to bring home U.S. troops serving in Iraq. Mayor Michael Bloomberg estimated the crowd at about 30,000, but organizers said later that number had grown to more than 100,000.
"It is time to bring our children home and declare this war was unnecessary," said the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, a New York activist addressing a rally in Manhattan.
The roughly 250 anti-war protests scheduled around the country by United for Peace and Justice ranged from solemn to brash.
In Montpelier, Vt., hundreds of silent protesters placed a pair of shoes on the Statehouse steps for each of the more than 560 U.S. soldiers killed in the war.
In Los Angeles, one of about 2,000 protesters held photographs of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with the words, "forget Janet Jackson's -- expose the real boobs..."
I am, of course, biased......but in reviewing the coverage a story about MULTIPLE events all over the world, where no single event can get much attention...
...it appears that OUR one hundred fifty protesters in Los Angeles were MORE EFFECTIVE in communicating our message in the media than were THEIR two thousand.