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After-Action Report: EMERGENCY PROTEST OF NEWSWEEK
May 16, 2005 | firebrand

Posted on 05/16/2005 5:42:29 PM PDT by firebrand

Just returned from the protest and after-protest hash and rehash.

Attending: Doctor Raoul, firebrand, TFine80, davide, and Don (not a freeper).

We stood outside the Broadway entrance from 4:45 to about 6:30, holding our signs and shouting our heads off: "Don't buy Newsweek," "Newsweek Lied, People Died," "Flush Newsweek," "Newsweek Lies to America," etc. The signs said pretty much the same, along with "There Are Lies, Damn Lies, and Homicidal 'Reporting,'" "Former Newsweek Reporter Will Lie for Food," and TFine80's sign, which said something like "And you wonder why they hate us!"

Many people stopped to chat. There were the usual Manhattan liberals (one of them was ready to sue davide for false advertising or something because she wasn't really a former Newsweek reporter), but a surprising number of positive responses. A Marine stopped by to find out more about it, and confirmed that rumors quickly go out of control in the Middle East, as this one did.

Doctor Raoul had called Fox News and the New York Post, and a photographer from Polaris Images took quite a few good shots of our signs and us. He had come by just to get a picture of the Newsweek marquee and hadn't expected to see protesters there.

If this story continues, there may be other protests, so stay tuned.

BIG, BIG thank-you to all who went out of their way to attend on such short notice, and to StarFan for putting up the excellent announcement thread.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aar; boycott; demonstration; flushit; freep; korandesecration; massiveprotest; newstweak; newsweek; protest; tristate; tristatechapter; unsubscribe
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To: StarFan

What is uncanny is that the first official retraction came about (5:00) and then was later updated (6:30) as we were there.

You have to think that they knew that there were protesters coming or already outside and this affected their behavior, if only a little itty-bit.


21 posted on 05/16/2005 6:11:27 PM PDT by TFine80
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To: firebrand

The last thing we American's want to do is to offend our Muslim friends.


22 posted on 05/16/2005 6:11:33 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: firebrand
Great job you guys. To be standing in the middle of Manhattan protesting against Newsweek and getting a positive response really says a lot. Everyone, right and left is pissed about this debacle and rightly so.
Newsweek and parent companies need to suffer some major consequenses
23 posted on 05/16/2005 6:11:41 PM PDT by QueenBee3
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To: firebrand
Thanks, give em hell. I think they should be prosecuted for the actions they caused. I can't go into a movie theater or an airliner and yell "fire" and neither should Newsweek or any other liberal rag write lies with impunity that incites riots and murders without any legal repercussions.
24 posted on 05/16/2005 6:15:38 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Boazo

Hi Boazo...great pic! You have captured the essence of Easyoff.


25 posted on 05/16/2005 6:16:30 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: Doctor Raoul

You are my hero!


26 posted on 05/16/2005 6:32:44 PM PDT by TaxRelief
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To: firebrand

Did you convince Don to join us here at FR? :-)


27 posted on 05/16/2005 6:34:10 PM PDT by TaxRelief
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To: firebrand; Doctor Raoul
Thank y'all for your service.
28 posted on 05/16/2005 6:36:58 PM PDT by AnnaZ (><>Hebrews 11<><)
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To: Doctor Raoul; firebrand; TFine80; davide
Good job, soldiers!
29 posted on 05/16/2005 6:38:38 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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To: TaxRelief

He knows he's welcome but is not joined at the hip to a computer the way most of us are.


30 posted on 05/16/2005 6:39:36 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: StarFan

Where was the retraction? Buried back near the obits?


31 posted on 05/16/2005 6:40:38 PM PDT by Noumenon (Activist judges - out of touch, out of tune, but not out of reach.)
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To: Lazamataz

Nicest thing anybody ever called me.


32 posted on 05/16/2005 6:41:25 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand
We have to start looking at politics as war by other means.

Because it is.

33 posted on 05/16/2005 6:42:15 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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To: firebrand

Just missed it, I biked by close to 7 and looked around but didn't see you. I even had my 10 out 10 Terroroists agree ABB shirt on today


34 posted on 05/16/2005 6:43:23 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: finnman69

Should have called me. We were at the Brooklyn Diner.


35 posted on 05/16/2005 6:46:19 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand

how about complaining to these stations that run "Newsweek On Air"?

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2005/05/newsweek-on-air-cancelled-in-boston.html#comments

partial list here and link to full roster.


36 posted on 05/16/2005 7:01:50 PM PDT by ScoopandDizzy
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To: firebrand

If it wasn't for you fantastic FReepers, there would be no one to picket the leftists. Thanks for a job well done.

Now where are the pictures?

Next time you picket them, give them a few choice words for me. I think you know what to say.

All the Best.


37 posted on 05/16/2005 7:02:48 PM PDT by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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To: firebrand
There were the usual Manhattan liberals (one of them was ready to sue davide for false advertising or something because she wasn't really a former Newsweek reporter),

OH MY GOD, a liberal who doesn't understand "nuance".

38 posted on 05/16/2005 7:09:52 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Support Our Troops, Spit On A Liberal Reporter)
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To: firebrand
My local WB 10 O'clock News anchor just said of Newsweek, "Sorry isn't good enough."
39 posted on 05/16/2005 7:11:16 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Support Our Troops, Spit On A Liberal Reporter)
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To: QueenBee3

Actually, considering that there's supposed to be TONS of liberals, we got few negative comments.


40 posted on 05/16/2005 7:14:20 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Support Our Troops, Spit On A Liberal Reporter)
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