Posted on 05/06/2004 7:55:14 AM PDT by sauropod
Here is what I was able to pull out of the tape. Portions of my tape we could not hear clearly what was being said. The part of the transcript with tgsltakoma includes her comments/corrections
A=Angelwood B=Barrymore K=Kristinn Bu= BufordP S=Sauropod T=Tgsltakoma D: Drew Barrymore
I've added/corrected from my recollection, to your transcript below.
D: Did you make all the signs? (I recall that I said another guy made the signs and that I made the "awards")
T confirms.
D: You did? Did you make them at home? And you brought them here today? T confirms.
D: Do you have family or friends in the war?
T confirms
D: You do. Have you protested before? Do you participate often?
T confirms.
D: Do you protest often?
T confirms.
D: How many events that you feel passionately about have you done so far?
T: … support the troops and the War on Terror… Their speakers talk about death to Israel, death to everybody, death to the capitalist pigs… Worker’s World Party, it’s leaders are hardline communists… and their goal is to get them to send them here ("get the media's attention", IIRC)and to get the public opinion swayed the way it was about Vietnam. (International ANSWER) They have up directly on their website, they support the Iraqi Resistance… unconditionally. They support those guys blowing up IEDs and stuff against our troops. That’s traitorous…. T: … (We all remember well watching the) World Trade Center (towers) and the Pentagon (on September 11th). We live here and we smelled the burning bodies and fuel (at)of the Pentagon. And it is arrogant of him (Ted Koppel) to say (that) if he doesn’t remind us at 11:30 at night with every five minutes having commercials, you know, it’s arrogant of him to even say that. (I remember telling Barrymore that if he was really doing it for honorable reasons, then he wouldn't be doing it in sweeps week, with commercials. He would have done the show on Memorial Day, the day we have set aside to honor our war dead; and he would not have allowed commercials)
D: Is there anything else this year that you feel passionately about to come out on the street and protest?
T: I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what the Left’s got up their sleeves!
D: So, are you a Republican?
T: Um, I came from four generations of Democrats. The Democrat party left me and I became a Republican. I think the Republican Party is leaving me on a lot of issues and I may become an Independent this year.
D: And Independent means undecided … for the best candidates?
T: Well, I think George Bush is the best candidate of the two that we have. (I said something about him doing a good job with the war on terror) You know John Kerry is just flippin’ and floppin’ all over the place… (like a) fish out of water.
D: Will you go out and protest for voting?
T: Voting is not something you protest. I would maybe become a voting registrar. I’ve thought about doing that.
D: Would you come out on the street and like, inspire people to vote?
T: Oh yeah.
D: Will you do that this year?
T: I’m sure. Yes.
D: What was the last thing you protested?
A: Hillary? Hillary’s booksigning.
T: That was probably the most recent thing.
D: And what impassioned you about that?
T: Well, her husband’s “leadership” is what led us to this sorry state of national security that led to September 11th for us. He was busy pardoning FALN terrorists the night before he left office, so Hillary…
K: No, the FALN terrorists…
T: Oh that’s right. Sorry. It was Marc Rich the night before. He pardoned the FALN terrorists earlier, before they left… (before the elections, so that Hillary could get the hispanic vote in New York)
A: The time said the Puerto Rican terrorist… Hillary in New York. (I think that New York part that you give Angelwood was actually my words, from above)
T: He was busy being [hands gestured wide] serviced… by Monica while he on the phone while making national security decisions.
D: Did you protest that?
T: [smiles] Yeah.
D: [smiles] You did. Okay.
A: Do you wanna know what we chanted?
D: What?
A: [turns to Freepers] You wanna chant? Hey guys! The Bill Clinton chant! [taps Kristinn on arm] We’ll do it. The Bill Clinton Chant. Come on. Hurry up.
Staytrue: Come on Guys.
Kristinn: Come on folks real quick now.
Angelwood: Real quick. All Right.
tgsl: They haven't done this for a couple years now.
Kristinn: We used to do this down at the white house every Saturday for a couple years when Bill was there.
K: It goes like this, you guys ready ?
Group: Yes.
K: Slowly, One, Two, Three
Group: Bill Clinton, we have you surrounded. Drop the cigar, step away from the intern. And come out with your pants up.
Barrymore: Wow
K: The first time we did that, it was out in front of the White House, and secret service officer working the gate started laughing so hard that he doubled over with laughter and had to go behind the guard house to compose himself.
D:Can I ask you guys a question? You come out and you protest, do you feel that it makes a difference. Do you feel that you reach people?
K: Yes
S: Absolutely.
B: .. one to one.
A: We were outside the vice president's mansion in 2000 after the election fiasco, and we started the chant, that Al Gore was so upset about, "get out of cheney's house, get out of cheney's house"
K: The thing is, even if the media doesn't come by, which most of the time it doesn't.
A: They don't.
K: It's the one on one experience with people, when we were outside of the White House for the last two and half years of Bill Clinton's term, probably close to a million people saw us, just by us being there on Saturday afternoons, because it's such a huge attraction for people.
D: Do you feel that protesting is like voting ? In that you feel you need to go out on the streets and put your message out there, and that one person can make a difference, and that if you are impassioned and understand your cause, and you go out there and you make your signs, or you go to the voting booth, is there a correlation between protesting and voting ?
K: Oh yeah definitely, voting is like the bare minimum, there were many years when I didn't vote. But, I saw how bad things were getting in the country. Things may have looked good on the surface, but underneath there was just a lot of rot going on. And so to get out and speak out about it, just as an average citizen, is something that more people should do, instead of just sitting back and yelling at the TV or turning off.
B: So you wouldn't mind encouraging the younger generation to get out there and peacefully protest for what they believe in like they did in the 60's in front of the White House for the issues that they felt impassioned about.
K: The older generation too. You know the older generation…
A: It's not just young people.
Bu: I would hope they would put a little thought behind their passion. A lot of people are very thoughtless and they just go with their gut instincts and they go out and they protest.
A: Or they go out with the crowd.
Bu: They don't do their homework in advance. And, we encounter, a lot of times when we go out, usually we're counter protesting. We're not protesting. We're not going out and trying raise a stink on our own. We're going out as a reaction to some of the things that go on. Like they'll have the IMF protest. We've seen a lot of violent things happen there. But the last, not this last year, but the previous year, we write our signs, and they come off on an individual basis on a one to one we talk to these kids. Some of them, you know, they don't listen, but some of them do, and you think maybe you are making a difference . Maybe in a couple of years, they will have done their homework and think about these issues and change their mind.
We don’t come out…We've put a lot of thought into the things we get behind. We don't just rush out and just on a gut do things.
A: So you study your causes.
K: But it takes time. There are young people that know what they’re talking about. It's not to say that young people are dim or anything. They are very smart and the first step is to want to come out to make a change, to want to make an impact.
A: And the way to do that is to bring humor and have fun and have a good time while you’re doing it because you won’t go out and protest again if you have a bad time. And, we always do it peacefully and we follow the law.
D: And you’re a funny bunch.
Bu: I think tonight is an example where we have put a lot of thought in this. What we are saying here tonight, just for this particular protest, is that we see the networks are not reporting the truth. There are a lot of good things, we understand there are bad things going on in Iraq and go ahead and report that. But they are not telling the truth. They are not talking about… There is very few news services that are telling the whole story. The main networks that we complain about are swaying the American public in the wrong direction.
We know there are good things happening in Iraq, but people don't know that because of our own media.
K; Can I pick up on that?
A: They are massaging and manipulating the news.
D: Where do you get your news ? Like you said you feel it's important to like get your information.
Bu: There are a lot of things that we read. National Review. American Spectator. Free Republic is a website that we talk about is probably one of the best places to go because a lot of people will post articles from newspapers around the country, news services from around the world, post it on there, hash it out, discuss, argue it and really squeeze the truth out of the information that we get.
D: If you were to suggest one periodical to young people to read for their political news, what would it be?
Bu: Mine is National Review. About 25 years ago, I was a Democrat and I saw Robin Williams all the time making fun of William F. Buckley and I didn't know who this William F. Buckley character was. One day I was channel surfing. And Firing Line was on one of the PBS stations.
And I go "Wow this must be the guy that Robin Williams was all the time making fun of."
So I sat there and watched the program and it was dry material. I want to see what this is all about. I don't remember what the discussion was all about. There were pro and con people on the show and they were arguing a specific subject.
Buckley, you know, they were making their case But you would sit there and listen to the arguments that was coming out of these people, you can tell that, they could not, they could not stand up for their argument. They didn’t give it any thought.
And Buckley was just destroying them.
And it was bringing to my attention some of the things I had never thought of. Ok? So that educated me right there, that I need to do my homework.
Don't just add an opinion. Don't just state your particular opinion on gun control or something like that.
Do your homework.
D: yep
Bu: Study the material.
D: I agree.
D: Well you guys have a good protest. I see that you are a very violent group. So I hope that, you know, no chaos breaks out around here.
Bu: Thanks for coming over here.
D: Thank you. Thank you for your time, you guys. I appreciate it. D: You have a good safe night. Thank You.
A: Are you going to come back to town next week for the Million Moms? Are you coming back next week for the Million Moms?
D: Uh, I’m not sure. We’re on the road for a documentary, so I don’t know where we’ll be.
End segment.
Huh? Is this an accurate transcription? The rest of it looks like a pretty fair interviewing job (with some good answers from the FReepers!)
....What??
Are you coming back next week for the Million Moms?
Is it me, or are the MM not getting all the free press this time around?
I'm wondering if the abortion march has sapped the strenth of the usual suspects and that maybe we'll see a few thousand Mom March this year.
( Reaching People (Inside the Beltway) -- Free Republic, "Cops's Cheer" Mentioned )
Is she just curious, did she seem to have an agenda, did she think you were freaks, was she condescending? Or do you think she was just a conservative interested in your activisms....?
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