There Is Silence in the Streets; Where Have All the Protesters Gone? [nyt barf alert]

new york times ^ | 8/31/06 | ANDREW ROSENTHAL

[mathprof]

read it and barf

[P-40]

It was a surprisingly political moment for a rock concert in 2006.

I think people are paying to go to a rock concert and not a political concert...and they are wanting what they paid for.

[Brilliant]

Sounds like they must've found their 30 year old stash of LSD.

[weegee]

It was almost painful the other day to read the New York Times bitch about a war they opposed, started by a president they opposed and then proceed to claim innocence when their journalists and agencies make up news items out of whole cloth.

[My2Cents]

I'll be glad when all the 60's generation is dead.

[jveritas]

There Is Silence in the Streets; Where Have All the Protesters Gone?

The protestors are gone because most Americans are not buying the lies of liberals and their media, but most importantly they do not hate President Bush unlike liberals and their media.

[Alouette]

This alleged "song" by Neil Young makes John Lennon's doper ballads sound like the Brandenburg Concertos.

[TheZMan]

One has to wonder what causes people to actually think like this. There's no way it can simply be upbringing, schooling or watching the MSM your whole life. There simply has to be more to it than that.

[wbill]

Student protesters helped drive Lyndon Johnson — in so many ways a powerful, progressive president

Lost me at that point....

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

The pressure to be silent is great. This week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared critics of Mr. Bush’s Iraq policy to those who appeased Adolf Hitler. And antiwar protesters are told they’re un-American, cowardly and lending aid and comfort to terrorists.

Prove them wrong, NYT, prove them wrong.

Don't like the rhetoric? It's because you are on the same side as the American Communists in prior to Hitler betraying Joe Stalin. Your Abu Ghraib coverage was overblown (30 days on the front page every day) and was the turning point in both support for the war and the rise of jihadists in the conflict.

[Hazcat]

I can think of two reasons;

1. The abortion backlash (there ate just less of 'them' due to their 'choice')

2. Even young people know when it's time to make up your mind to either fish or cut bait and most prefer fishing.

[Huck]

Puhlease. The last thing someone on LSD cares about is politics.

[weegee]

Well he launched a trillion dollar war on poverty with no exit strategy. Socialism made good inroads under LBJ.

[dead]

The pressure to be silent is great. This week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared critics of Mr. Bush’s Iraq policy to those who appeased Adolf Hitler. And antiwar protesters are told they’re un-American, cowardly and lending aid and comfort to terrorists.

What an effing candyass fairy!

"I will withhold my deeply held opinions because some guy I never met and never will meet might call people who say similiar things names."

Jeez, at many points in history, brave people were willing to rot in jail for decades or face execution to make a point. This sniveling pussy is championing those allegedly too afraid to speak because somebody might openly disagree with them.

Maybe he can dig up Phil Ochs to sing a lame song about it.

[steve8714]

"We went downtown to protest, but the government was hiring that day."

[Sapper26]

It was almost painful the other night to hear Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young sing


I agree with this part.

[edzo4]

a war whose purpose Americans never really understood, started by a president who didn’t tell the truth and then waged the war ineptly. And that was before they sang about Iraq.

Kennedy lied about Vietnam?

[wbill]

Kind of hard to think of Johnson as either Powerful or Progressive....but, I suppose from a Liberal (capital L) stance he was both.

[weegee]

The youthful rebellion to rise up against the "establishment" media, talking heads, and academic leaders pits them AGAINST the 60s counterculture figures (who now ARE the establishment).

Question THAT authority.

[Obie Wan]

Yeah me too.Hey wait a minute I'm part of the 60's generation.OK everybody but one :) !!!