Something about this media coverage is really bothering me. The media's hope for things to go really bad today is just palpable. Damn them all...
LET FREEDOM RING!!
Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawar waves a stained blue finger, used to identify those who have already voted, after casting his ballot in the capital Baghdad January 30, 2005. Iraq's first multiparty polls in half a century began at dawn on Sunday, elections intended to unite the country but which could instead foment sectarian strife and which insurgents have vowed to turn into a bloodbath. REUTERS/Chris Helgren
Iraqi Interim President Ghazi al-Yawer holds up his ink-stained finger after casting his vote in the Iraqi elections in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Iraqi Interim President Ghazi al-Yawer holds up his ink-stained finger after casting his vote in the Iraqi elections in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
An Iraqi traffic policeman approaches a box to cast his ballot during the country's national elections early in the morning in the southern city of Basra, January 30, 2005. Iraq's first multiparty polls in half a century began at dawn on Sunday, elections intended to unite the country but which could instead foment sectarian strife and which insurgents have vowed to turn into a bloodbath. REUTERS/Atef Hassan
An Iraqi policeman casts his ballot during the country's national elections early in the morning in the southern city of Basra, January 30, 2005. Iraq's first multiparty polls in half a century began at dawn on Sunday, elections intended to unite the country but which could instead foment sectarian strife and which insurgents have vowed to turn into a bloodbath. REUTERS/Atef Hassan REUTERS/Atef Hassan
Does anyone know if any talkradio commentators are live right now following the events surrounding this historic occasion? I thought I heard that Hugh Hewitt was going to broadcast this weekend, but he doesn't appear to be on right now.
I'm in the Southern California area, but I can listen online as well. Anyone know anybody on the air right now?
Scarborough on MSNBC...
Explosion outside one polling place. Some gunfire.
developing .....
You know the Bolsheviks are going to work like the devil to find a photo op of an Iraqi polling station with a sparse line. Perhaps they may even ask many of the potential voters to stand aside for a moment while they take the video.
Let's bring the troops home, asap.
Geraldo on FoxNews is elated, says turn-out at one polling place is PACKED, TURNING OUT IN DROVES.
Great news!
Looks like more people are showing up at the polls. I really didn’t expect much activity in the first couple of hours, but it seems to be coming alive now. Around nine in the morning is when Baghdad gets started.
At the moment, it’s quiet on the outside again. Black Hawks and Chinooks are patrolling the skies as they do on any ordinary day. Haven’t even seen any of the fighter jets go over in the last couple of hours.
They’re going to vote….sorry to disappoint you, MSM, but the Iraqis are just late risers. I think we’re going to see increasing crowds at the polls from here on in.
** Watch the women ** - they make up more than 50% of the population in Iraq because so many men have been lost, the first person to vote in Afghanistan was a young woman, they want better lives for themselves and their children, their lives are so hard they are willing to face a lot to vote, it is hard for a terrorist or insurgent to shoot an unarmed woman even in their culture I would think.
I was just outside having a smoke break (yeah, we have to go outside here, too…LOL) and heard another explosion that was rather close. Don’t have any details on that one yet.
It has clouded over outside, but as long as it doesn’t rain, people will go vote. Even if it does, I don’t think that will stop them. (We hate it when it rains because this place turns into a giant, slimy mud pit.)
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