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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: firebrand

Thanks all. Good work!


81 posted on 05/17/2005 3:00:59 PM PDT by dervish (Let Europe pay for NATO)
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To: bluesagewoman

Nah, an individual death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.


82 posted on 05/17/2005 3:03:28 PM PDT by johnb838 (Liberalism = Leninism.... Liberalism = Bolshevism)
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To: firebrand

Thank you Freepers. Job well done.


83 posted on 05/17/2005 6:21:16 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: firebrand; Doctor Raoul; TFine80; davide; Jim Robinson

Doctor Raoul - $5 donation to FR on the way!!

But if the pics ever show up, ping me!


84 posted on 05/17/2005 8:14:59 PM PDT by eyespysomething (It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful)
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To: firebrand

Hang strong guys! Good Work!


85 posted on 05/17/2005 8:24:39 PM PDT by Enterprise (Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
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To: Lazamataz; Doctor Raoul; firebrand; TFine80; davide

"You FreePers make me proud to be an American!"

86 posted on 05/17/2005 8:30:31 PM PDT by Enterprise (Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
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To: firebrand

If Jane Fonda comes around and you want to freep let me know. Hopefully I can get the time off from work.


87 posted on 05/18/2005 3:42:25 AM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

bttt


88 posted on 05/18/2005 4:20:51 AM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: firebrand

Great effort guys.....


89 posted on 05/18/2005 4:22:38 AM PDT by bert (Rename Times Square......... Rudy Square.)
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To: firebrand

NewsTweak- We tweak the news before NY Times gets a chance.


90 posted on 05/18/2005 7:34:24 AM PDT by Rockitz (After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
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To: firebrand

I don't give a damn about Newsweek. We've know about them for a long time. I think we should publish examples of insults of different religions weekly just to show, by their reaction, which have the fanatics.


91 posted on 05/18/2005 7:37:04 AM PDT by bigsigh
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To: cyborg

Hillary's speaking today at the Marymount Manhattan College commencement. Don't know where it is or what time, though.


92 posted on 05/18/2005 8:09:43 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: SkyPilot

Why do they hate us?
Because they hate us.
Roll their bones, roll their bones.

(With apologies to Neil Peart)

93 posted on 05/18/2005 8:47:48 AM PDT by TigersEye (Intellectuals only exist if you think they do.)
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To: Rockitz
NewsTweak- We tweak the news before NY Times gets a chance.

I prefer to label that rag NewsREEK, because it literally reeks of pure anti-US, pro-terrosits propaganda.

94 posted on 05/18/2005 2:37:40 PM PDT by auzerais
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To: firebrand; All

Alright Rack NY Freepers on protesting Newsweek


95 posted on 05/19/2005 5:42:59 PM PDT by SevenofNine (Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Fred Nerks; All

For more information on Newsweek Magazine, and the rest of American media, try these links:

http://www.mrc.org/

http://www.aim.org/


96 posted on 05/21/2005 6:04:16 PM PDT by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: RaceBannon

thanks for the links, I've saved them for future reference.


97 posted on 05/21/2005 6:58:44 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Understand Islam. Understand Evil. Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD link My Page.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Any time. We know almost nothing of Oz, so, it is not surprising that Oz doesn't know how bad it is here, and how Communist our news media has become.


98 posted on 05/21/2005 7:34:42 PM PDT by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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