Celebs Join Thousands to Protest Iraq War (BARF alert and Photos)

AP and AOL News ^ | 28 Jan 07 | CALVIN WOODWARD and LARRY MARGASAK

[SkyPilot]

The same old vermin crawls out of their snake pits.

The same old Tokyo Rose type propaganda and rhetoric ("This War is Illegal, President is Lying, You Cannot Win!".

The same complicit New Media coverage.

Last night I heard Rev. Charles Stanley speak about the "hatred of America around the globe" that the protesters like to refer to. Obviously, our enemies around the globe hate us, because America is the one nation on earth that stands against the tide of evil and is the only true friend of Israel on earth.

Stanley said there is some jealousy because our blessings as a nation, and our riches. What the evil people and nations in this world hate about the goodness of America is we are the last, final defense against all out Evil on earth.

But what really struck me was his message that although we have been blessed, and we have a greater freedom to embrace God (the real one) than almost any nation on earth, we don't do a very good job sometimes. Too many in our nation reject Him. We have punished the innocent (abortion) and celebrate the guilty.

These protesters are the worst of America, and they also represent a faction of what a terrible future lies in wait for our nation unless we turn back to God.

We have called "Good" - - Evil, and "Evil" - - Good.

Woe to us if we continue to let that happen. Our nation can be judged and swept away just as Israel was by the ancient Babylonians.

I wonder which path we will choose.

[bmwcyle]

Satan walks the streets of Hollywood.

[Dog]

They need better celebs...not the former cast of Hollywood Squares....who else..Jamie Farr?

[Mo1]

United for Peace and Justice, a coalition group sponsoring the protest, had hoped 100,000 would come. They claimed even more afterward, but police, who no longer give official estimates, said privately the crowd was smaller than 100,000.

I'd say it was less then 10,000

Also couldn't help but notice many cropped photo shots of the protest

[Dog]

It was billions....:-)

[Samurai_Jack]

So AP is no longer saying 'tens of thousands'?

[Alia]

10s of 1,000s marched.

Billions did not march. They went to work, ran chores, raised kids, helped with homework, visited libraries, museums, internetted, counterprotested the protestors, skied, shovelled snow, gave medicine, performed surgeries, ran pharmacies, skied, shopped, prayed, paid bills, cooked meals, fixed the plumbing, patrolled streets, answered 911 calls, caught burglers, caught rapists, caught terrorists, caught insurgents and their caches.

[livius]

Guess this explains where all the young slacker "anarchist" panhandlers on the streets of my town went this weekend.

[Mo1]

oops .. my mistake .. I forgot to add zero's like liberals do

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

You can get free signs?

[Vision]

Sean Penn is not aging well.



Demonstrators carry signs to the National Mall that say "Make hip-hop not War"

Snort.

[Bernard]

Did anybody order to a pizza, to be delivered when Jeff Spiccoli started talking?

And Jane Fonda - did she find an IED she could straddle for a publicity shot?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

"So AP is no longer saying 'tens of thousands'?"

The BBC still is. Typical inflation of the number of anti-war protesters.

[Darkwolf377]

"... rebuilding a country we've destroyed."

Since it was a pristine Paradise under its previous government.

[SkyPilot]

You can get free signs?

Yeah, I saw that too.

:^>

I was wondering who else would catch that. Look at how many signs are stacked up. I wonder how much George Soros paid for them?

[TNCMAXQ]

Wow, what luminaries. Fonda, Penn, Sarandon, Robbins..., It would have been news if these people had NOT shown up. If it got to a point where Robert Duvall, James Woods, Chuck Norris, Lee Greenwood, and Elizabeth Hasselback were demonstrating against the war, then we would be in trouble!

Interesting too that except for the annual pro life march we almost never see right of center gatherings that are as big as this. It can't be that there are more of them than us. Either they just have more time on their hands or they are motivated by an ugly anger that can't be good for one's emotional or physical health.

[SkyPilot]

The MSM was in full propaganda coverage mode for this.

My favorite all time photo qualifies for this thread.

[ShawTaylor]

"Celebs Join Thousands to Protest Iraq War "

For "celebs" put "America-hating lunatics and retards", and you'll be closer to the truth.
Jane Fonda hates it when terrorists are killed in Iraq?
So what's new?
Jane Fonda has always hated it when America's enemies are killed. She'd much rather see Americans killed anyday. More to the point, who cares what that rabid piece of s*** thinks?

[razzle]

I was down there with the Freepers, and cameras were flashing constantly at us, as was the abuse of the marchers. The police eventually moved into our area to protect us I guess, since quite a few loudmouth types came behind our double fence and were trying to grab at our signs (many were telling us 9-11 was executed by Rumsfeld and Cheney - they say), Since they were girly-boys, there was never any threat of injury to us but the police did a good job and their presence was intimidating to the marchers. There were also quite a few active duty military guys that stopped by to give support to us, including one guy who was heading over to Iraq very soon, My voice was gone last night from yelling to be heard over the noise, but it was a good experience to stand up for the truth.

[toddlintown]

"Also couldn't help but notice many cropped photo shots of the protest"

I noticed that the TV shots were so, so tight. Always an indication of a small crowd. Of course, there were a few interviews with aging hippy peaceniks and Jesse J. to spice up the piece.

It was so predictable.