Michelle Malkin linked to this thread.EXCELLENT, rantblogger!OK, I emailed her last night about it, but despite that it was me, she linked to my post!
THAT should help our "thread view" count, which is already pretty good:
Now, can you get HUGH HEWITT to do the same?
After Action Report-Hollywood Freep
Posted by Hi Heels
On News/Activism 02/27/2005 9:15:43 PM PST · 94 replies · 3,372+ views
Ah, still figuring out the Free Republic bloggers world, but love what I see so far. Here's my little after action report, which will be somewhat condensed not to include too much of what others have already said.
The first thing I've got to mention is that suit that RonDog put on to parody Michael Moore. It looked pretty much to me like a knock off of the Goodyear blimp, that was flying overhead, and I almost busted a gut when RonDog exclaimed (after much work putting on the suit), "Hey, I think I got it on backwards." He did! There was some extra padding in the posterior area, and that was now in the front. We all shared a common critique that Fahrenheit 911 was truly bass-ackwards in its presentation of facts, and that somehow the backwards putting on of the suit gave an extra insight to the parody. I even shouted out, "Michael Moore is trying to butt into Hollywood!" Ron had a fan inside the suit, and he literally blew it up to give a more "rotund" appearance.
I would say the majority of the looks we got most of the day were looks of, "Huh?" That's a pretty common look on the face of Hollywood types so I wasn't surprised. There were a few notable hecklers, but we always pulled the children back out of fear of rabies.
One woman who was particularly obnoxious I photographed, and when I got home and looked at the photo I couldn't believe it. She either had on mirrored glasses or the lighting was just right, and the reflection of one of our red shirted ladies standing her ground was squarely in the reflection coming from one side of the heckler’s glasses. I couldn't have set that shot up if I’d tried a thousand times. I love photography, especially at these exciting events. The pictures always help to add details to the story that would otherwise be missed, and sometimes, as in the example of “the lady in red” reflection, they even add their own details. I cropped the photo down to show just the lady in red in glasses lens. Thank goodness for high pixelation cameras in small packages.
I was the guy next to the Bush sign in the AP photo, and was holding a sign that said, “Hey Hollywood America Voted!” (see previous posts) The sign has that predominately red filled map of the U.S. in the center of the sign.
I was the maker of the sign that read, "...and the winner is a free Iraq" I scanned (at 300 dpi) a post card that our President sent to me during his successful campaign for President, then cropped it, imported it into Microsoft Publisher's poster document setup (set to 30" X 40"), pushed the margins to the max, added the words top and bottom, then printed it out on 8 1/2 X 11 paper on my laser printer. From 1st scan to print out took about 10 minutes, but I had to cut and tape each sheet afterward and that took about 45 minutes (all a labor of love).
About 3 P.M., when the limos started backing up, we gave the "and the winner is" sign to someone who was standing at the very front, and I moved forward into the crowd with a couple of big purple fingers. I did see some actors look over and read our signs (most with that blank, “Huh?” look). The majority of them were concerned with their own appearances, preening and strutting for the cameras and the fans. It was a real experience for me as I've never seen rich and famous people pull multi-thousand dollar designer clothes out of body crevices before - just like poor people do with their ill fitting attire.
It was a nice Winter day in Sunny Southern California so as the afternoon sun moved west we were not burned to a crisp by the usually intense heat of this dessert climate.
At about 5 p.m. one of the most gratifying times of the day came when Ron pulled a trash can to our spot and we cleaned up the mess that we and a lot of other people had made with soft drink cups, etc. You gotta love the good people who lead by doing the most menial of tasks in a spirit of love and service for the betterment of all.
After the event we all fell back to the IHOP on Sunset Blvd. were we restored precious bodily fluids, ate, and generally took R & R.
Lastly, what is an event such as this without a few group shots of all those fun loving Freepers.
Sorry for the lack of photos. I had about seven I tried to add, but I just couldn't get them in. I think I have some set up things still to do on my new ISP. They should be up soon on Ron Dogs web site, or in a day or two on this site.
Freep-on, Ray
Good work Dawg!!!!!
Sorry I couldn't be there, but looks like ya'll had a ball.