Posted on 07/27/2004 9:18:27 PM PDT by RonDog
This FReep started out for ME with a call on my cell phone from Andrea (with the Riverside College Republicans) at about 4 pm.I was stuck in traffic on the 91 freeway, as it turns out, still about an hour away.She said that there were already over FIFTY Bush-Cheney supporters in place, but that the TEN or so "bad guys" were attempting to disrupt their rally, and she wanted to know what to do.This was her first FReep as an ORGANIZER, and she was concerned.(to be continued...)
From Yahoo! NEWS photos:
Tue Jul 27, 9:06 PM ET
A supporter of presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), foreground, holds up a sign across the street from supporters of the Republican party outside of the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif., where vice president Dick Cheney (news - web sites) is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, July 27, 2004.
(AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
...note that at this stage in the rally, the "good guys" apparently outnumbered the "bad guys" at LEAST six to one......so they had to put one of the lone Kerry supporters in the FORE-ground, and the Bush-Cheney folks in the BACK-ground.
From Yahoo! NEWS photos:
Tue Jul 27, 9:06 PM ET
A supporter of presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), foreground, holds up a sign across the street from supporters of the Republican party outside of the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif., where vice president Dick Cheney (news - web sites) is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, July 27, 2004.
(AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Is there a Cheney ralley tomorrow at Ontario??
Until then, here are a few more from Associated Press (via Yahoo! NEWS):
Todd Warden stands across from a line of police officers across the street from the Historic Mission Inn after vice president Dick Cheney spoke at a reception for Californian Republican senatorial candidate Bill Jones at the Historic Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif., on Tuesday, July 27, 2004. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) 
Vice president Dick Cheney speaks at a reception for Californian Republican senatorial candidate Bill Jones at the Historic Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif., on Tuesday, July 27, 2004. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) 
Vice president Dick Cheney , left, Lynn Cheney, Maurine Jones, and Bill Jones, right, wave to supporters after Cheney gave a speech at a reception for the Californian Republican senatorial candidate Jones at the Historic Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif., on Tuesday, July 27, 2004. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) 
Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at a reception for Californian Republican senatorial candidate Bill Jones at the Historic Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif. on Tuesday, July 27, 2004. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) 
A supporter of presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry , foreground, holds up a sign across the street from supporters of the Republican party outside of the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif., where vice president Dick Cheney is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, July 27, 2004. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) 
Stephen P. Stearns, 55, supporter of democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry , D-Mass., holds a 'John Kerry for President' sign across the street from the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif., where vice president Dick Cheney is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, July 27, 2004. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) 
A supporter of Presidential hopeful John Kerry , Tristan Osborne, wears a President George W. Bush mask across the street from the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif. where Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, July 27, 2004. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) I'm glad Cheney got some support out there. The photo is typical. We had about 250 people out to support Bush one weekend. On the other side of the street were about 15 idiots banging drums and tamborines. They were featured in the coverage on the local television station without a single one of our folks showing up on camera. And so it goes...
Bias? What bias. LOL
The Kerry sign dominates the picture. No bias there.
Bumpin' it up!
Is it just me, or do the Flipper signs not say
"John Kerry for President"...
...but...
"John Kerry President" (as if he already were so)
Well, the media seems to think that he is...
For those who may suspect a liberal BIAS in the mainstream media - Part TWO...Note how the Associated Press writer cleverly co-mingles the MANY Bush-Cheney supporters with the FEW (initially) Kerry supporters, in THIS short excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle:
"...Cheney portrayed Boxer as out of touch with Californians and told the crowd of about 200 people at the $1,000-per-plate dinner that Jones was in lockstep with President Bush on issues of national security, the economy and tax reform.Protesters could be heard chanting outside the Mission Inn's stained-glass windows during the vice president's 20-minute remarks.
Several hundred protesters and Bush supporters gathered hours before the event and faced off on opposite street corners..."
Looks that way to me. I suspect it's their last hurrah, since that's about as close as he's going to get hopefully.
Looks that way to me. I suspect it's their last hurrah, since that's about as close as he's going to get hopefully.
Wow, that's pretty bad. 200 protesters and Bush supporters...
Is there a Cheney rally tomorrow at Ontario??I think that the Ontario event was originally scheduled for earlier TODAY.
From a pre-FReep thread:
To: RonDogLooks like plans changed a little. My information was:
Riverside rally at 3:30 or 3:45.
I drove out to Ontario today, but the rally there was
canceled. Apparently Cheney got right into his motorcade
and left for Riverside -- I heard there was a security
concern at Ontario. True?
Does anyone know? And how was the Riverside event?
11 posted on 07/27/2004 6:02:01 PM PDT by California Patriot (California Patriot)
Wow, that's pretty bad. 200 protesters and Bush supporters...We should EVENTUALLY get some more precise numbers from the folks who got there EARLY, but it appears that the FReep timeline went something like THIS:
4:00 pm - 40-50 "good guys" - 5-10 "bad guys"(Vice President Cheney arrives, the media go indside.)5:00 pm - 50-60 "good guys" - 75-100 "bad guys"(RonDog finally arrives.)5:30 pm - 75 "good guys" - 200 "bad guys" - who begin to overrun our position(We "declare victory" and fall back to a nearby McDonald's.)
Those signs have been that way for a long time...so was the painting on the side of his plane...
Oh well...
Thanks RonDog. Wish I could make these day-time events.
Good job out there.
I think I remember seeing his plane that way. It bugged me at the time.
I just wonder what the general public thinks. The media shows no support for conservative candidates, yet they still win the most seats of power. Doesn't anyone wonder how that happens? Well yes, the left claims Bush lost. I wonder why...
What shocks me more than what they print, is what they refuse to print. Let me guess:
If Condi was caught hiding secret documents in her panties, the media wouldn't cover it? Of course they would, but perhaps they'd give the excuse that panites are different than boxers... A different situation entirely... /s
They refused to report the UN's oil for food scandal, Kerry's Swift Boat vets have only 3 for him and 26 against! HE left the men under his command after 4 months - left them high and dry.
TuRAYzuh DID say "un-American" traits and it is on video tape...
But the media ignores.
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