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Stay safe Kristinn !............Good Work !
Posted on 09/01/2004 10:14:43 AM PDT by kristinn
A horde of the pink unwashed descended on Fox News' headquarters in New York City yesterday afternoon to hold a "Shut-up-athon" against the number one cable news outlet in America.
Led by Code Pink, the leftist feminist group founded to oppose the war on Iraq, about a thousand demonstrators filled the sidewalk in front of Fox's building on 6th Avenue at 48th Street.
Police were everywhere to keep order, which they did with great success.
FReepers Coleus, Laserlock, ELS, Trueblackman, kristinn and two lurkers held a counter-demonstration there to support Fox News and to educate the public about Code Pink's red roots.
Several of our signs had messages praising Fox as "fair and balanced" which, of course, drove the leftists batty.
The signs about Code Pink were: "CODE PINK (Heart) FIDEL CASTRO, CODE PINK HATES AMERICA (both on hot pink sign board,) and COMMIE RED + SURRENDER WHITE = CODE PINK.
As soon as we set up around the corner from the protesters, they started coming over to argue with us. Most of them wanted to know what we had against communism. They argued that Marxism hadn't really been tried before, blah, blah, blah. What a bunch of headache carriers.
The cops kept an eye on us as some of the leftists looked they were ready to explode at us. Fortunately they calmed down and went back to the main protest.
Brian Kilmead of Fox & Friends stopped by for a quick chat and a photo with us on his way in.
The National Lawyers Guild green hats shadowed us for most of the time, taking notes on what we did and what our signs said.
After awhile the cops closed the sidewalk and herded everyone, including us, into a pen in front of the Fox building. We stood on the edge of the pen and faced outward, away from the leftists, and held our signs up for passersby, etc.
Code Pink's Gael Murphy, who was acting as their legal liason with the police, approached ELS and urged her to hold her sign higher so the FR URL at the bottom could be seen better from behind the fencing.
Medea Benjamin, Code Pink's most famous actor, arrived late and donned a ridiculous pink tiara. She came around and faced us so she could read our signs. I told her she was failing. That despite her efforts Saddam was overthrown and our troops' morale was still high. I added an encouraging thought for her, reminding her that at least Fidel is still in power.
Jodie Evans, founder of Code Pink, approached ELS and grasped her sign with one hand demanding to know why we were using the name of her group on our signs. I told her to take her hand off the sign, which she immediately did.
She complained about the messages on our signs about Code Pink. We argued they were truthful and presented our case to her. She finally said, "We have nothing against communism."
I thanked her for her honesty.
Another woman, wearing a socialist t-shirt, praised the Fidel Castro sign. She was very happy to see someone so boldly proclaim Code Pink's leftism until I informed her I was on the other side and the sign was not meant as a compliment.
Protesting inside the pen wasn't so bad after a while. The crowd thinned out some and the cops were a constant presence. We didn't see it when Medea was arrested for using a bullhorn, but we did see her get plenty of other warnings earlier for blocking the sidewalk.
Laserlock, Coleus, ELS, Trueblackman and the lurkers all performed bravely yesterday. Vastly outnumbered, they held their own admirably.
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You did us all proud. Thank you!
Do you have any photos?
KUDOS to all of you -- the Code Pinkos are a wild bunch and have been aggressive and violent in the past. You all did a great job needling the leaders of the tribe -- love the signs!
Take care and FReep On!
Totalllllll breakdown!
To them, the thought of New Yorkers who are also Freepers just will not register.
Kristinn--excellent job and report. Thank you for coming to NYC to do battle with the great unwashed.
Coleus--you made us Jersey Freepers proud! >>>>
thank you.
Man you all sound like you're having a blast...
The Corn Dog Vendor !
Stay safe Kristinn !............Good Work !
You have to be here to feel it. NYC is like no other plus the excitement of the convention, more republicans in NYC then ever before and all the lefties upset by us taking over their liberal city.
They are not used to counter protests and can't handle it.
Thanks for the ping!
Live action ZOTTING!
Must be the ones with their friend visiting. (Sorry, Mungo bad.)
You are right. Even the lefties who are not protesting cannot stand to see us with Bush buttons or convention tags. They stop and glare at us, as if outraged that we belong to the other major party, as if outraged that we exist. If they could glare us to death, they would.
Dr. Terry Madonna, reporting live from N. Y. on WHP Radio here in Central Pennsylvania, was describing this event. I suspected it was Freepers vs Code Pinkos but wasn't sure until now.
He desceibed you as a "small but effective counter protest".
Way to go all.
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