Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Robert Teesdale
I can't believe this crap. The headline:

City takes to streets for day of mourning (Ft. Collins, Colorado)

Fort Collins has a population of about 110,000, including a ton of college students at Colorado State. So saying that the "city" took to the streets would indicate that a very large percentage of the city participated. Instead, we find this out:

More than 150 people gathered at United Campus Ministry

That's about one-tenth of one percent. But the "city" showed up.

And then YOU are given this treatment:

Robert Teesdale, one of the few counter-protesters at Saturday's rally

This idiot must be trying to pull together some work samples for an interview with the New York Times.

11 posted on 03/21/2004 8:55:18 AM PST by dirtboy (Howard, we hardly knew ye. Not that we're complaining, mind you...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: dirtboy
But you have to understand in the mind of the enlightened journalist the 150 that showed up are the city that counts.
14 posted on 03/21/2004 8:58:24 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: dirtboy
I can't believe this crap. The headline: City takes to streets for day of mourning (Ft. Collins, Colorado)

Overdramatic, yes. And they weren't "mourning" either. It was a sad display of unpatriotic spinelessness.

Fort Collins has a population of about 110,000, including a ton of college students at Colorado State. So saying that the "city" took to the streets would indicate that a very large percentage of the city participated. Instead, we find this out: More than 150 people gathered at United Campus Ministry. That's about one-tenth of one percent. But the "city" showed up."

Amusing, isn't it? 0.1% is "the city". Oh, but lest we forget... their ideology is "pure", no? Therefore they must, per Leftist dogma, represent the great silenced and oppressed masses of the suffering proletariat.

And then YOU are given this treatment: Robert Teesdale, one of the few counter-protesters at Saturday's rally This idiot must be trying to pull together some work samples for an interview with the New York Times.

Huh? Clarify?
15 posted on 03/21/2004 9:01:51 AM PST by Robert Teesdale
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: dirtboy
The reporter was fairly young. I don't think she did too badly. It would have been a temptation to ignore our rally in favor of focusing the story entirely on the anti-justice crowd.
18 posted on 03/21/2004 9:03:51 AM PST by Robert Teesdale
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: dirtboy; Robert Teesdale; CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
CardCarryingMemberVastRightWC did a head count of the lefties as they started on the mearch. Ther were exactly 92 of them, not 150.

According to their website, the purpose of the march was "to protest the unilateral action of the United States and the occupation of Iraq".

We did a good thing by counter portesting them. The leftist leaning reporter tried to be fair, even with her bias.

God Bless President Bush! He got the most honking of all!
28 posted on 03/21/2004 11:15:03 AM PST by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson