Posted on 03/16/2007 3:06:37 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
Today CSPAN decided: a) not to cover the Gathering of Eagles rally, and b) to cover the Workers World Party's rally against America.
With this deplorable decision, CSPAN has spit on the American military veteran. How can CSPAN make such a blatantly biased decision? Will they defend their decision, saying that "our" rally doesn't have any celebrities like Gold Star mother, Cindy Sheehan?
What about the Gold Star mothers on our side who will be speaking? They may not have the name recognition that Cindy Sheehan has, but CSPAN viewers have a right (and an expectation) that their voices should carry equal weight. Their sacrifice is equally great, and equally as heartbreaking.
And what about the military veterans who support our troops and our country? Doesn't their voice also deserve to be heard tomorrow?
Every one of us who pays for cable television service pays to fund CSPAN's "balanced" public interest coverage, and our voices are just as relevant and just as deserving to be heard as those on the radical left who despise our country and our troops.
Our Vietnam veterans were spit on forty years ago. Today, CSPAN is spitting on all of our veterans by giving coverage to the Workers World Party/International ANSWER rally and ignoring the opposing point of view.
If you are as angry as I am right now, I have a project for you...
Tomorrow (Saturday - March 17th) give Washington Journal a call. Whatever Washington Journal says that they are taking phone calls to discuss, tell their call screener that's what you want to discuss...
And when you get on, give them all the righteous grief you can, on-air, about how they are covering a bunch of communists and commie sympathizers and kicking our troops in the balls.
Call in on whatever line you can get in on; talk nice to the screener, lie to them about what you want to talk about, and when you get in to the host - slam the bejeezus out of them!
So what if this is "dishonest," this is a war and they are siding with our enemy!
Call-In Numbers
Support Democrats:
(202) 737-0002
Support Republicans:
(202) 737-0001
Support Independents:
(202) 628-0205
Outside U.S.:
(202) 628-0184
Email: journal@c-span.org
from the looks of some of the antiwar moonbats, beer is just a sedative at this point.
Interesting.
Seems the Globalal Smarmy crowd was held back by the cold weather.
Life can just be delightful, can't it.
(Pretend everything I say is with Mark Steyn's accent)
Why?
The FCC has no jurisdiction over the content on cable networks.
Oh, good, the famous disappearing nes story. Mention it once in passing, then if anyone asks, say "We covered that."
Oh, good, the famous disappearing news story. Mention it once in passing, then if anyone asks, say "We covered that."
Another bonus to the frigid small gathering they ALL KEPT THEIR CLOTHES ON!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xFOyIaY_oo
Video I took of a WWII Sailor from WWI who was in the Tarawa Invasion
Anti-war protesters gather at the Pentagon on Saturday. At two points, protesters encountered counter-demonstrators.
Thousands protest Iraq war at Pentagon
By David D. Kirkpatrick and Sarah Abruzzese
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Thousands of protesters demanding an end to the war in Iraq marched to the Pentagon on Saturday to mark the fourth anniversary of the American invasion and the 40th anniversary of the massive 1967 protest against the Vietnam War.
Other demonstrations to mark the war's anniversary were held elsewhere in the country and around the world.
On Friday night, a coalition of liberal Christian groups, including Sojourners/Call to Renewal, led several thousand marchers in a procession from the National Cathedral. More than 200 demonstrators were arrested while praying in front of the White House, according to the Washington police.
The organizers of Saturday's march — led by a group called the ANSWER Coalition, for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism — appeared to set their sights on a range of goals, from the impeachment of President Bush to the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
In a speech before the march, Cindy Sheehan, the mother who made headlines camping outside Bush's Texas ranch after her son was killed in Iraq, called the president and his military advisers "war criminals."
As they gathered for the march, the protesters were confronted by several hundred counter-demonstrators. Many were veterans in biker jackets who said they had come to protect the nearby Vietnam Memorial from potential defacement, citing rumors that had circulated among veterans groups.
Crossing the bridge toward the Pentagon, the marchers met another group of about 50 counter-demonstrators by the Arlington Cemetery. One member of the opposing group held a sign that said, "Go to hell, traitors. You dishonor our dead on hallowed ground."
Police on horseback and foot separated the two groups of demonstrators, but war protester Susanne Shine of Boone, N.C., found herself in a crowd of counter-demonstrators, and came out in tears, with her sign in shreds.
"They ripped up my peace sign," she said after police escorted her, her husband and two adult daughters from the group.
Alan Rainey, who said he was a publisher from Indiana, said the last protest he attended was in 1973, after he had returned from military duty in Vietnam.
On Saturday, he carried a sign with a St. Patrick's Day theme that said, "Help drive the snakes out of the White House," depicting Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as snakes.
Zohrea Whitaker said she came from Sacramento, Calif., for the protest.
"I have a son serving over there and I want him home," she said. Five people were arrested after the demonstration when they walked onto a bridge that had been closed off. They were cited and released.
In Sacramento, nearly 200 veterans and parents of troops gathered on the steps of the state Capitol to rally in support of U.S. troops in Iraq. Police in Los Angeles said 5,000 to 6,000 protesters turned out for an anti-war rally there. Other demonstrations were planned for or held in Austin, Texas, San Francisco, San Diego and Hartford, Conn., where more than 1,000 rallied at the Old State House.
Protests were also staged or planned in Australia, Britain and Canada. Tens of thousands marched in Madrid as Spaniards called not only for the U.S. to get out of Iraq but to close the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Smaller protests were staged in Greece and Turkey. __________________________________________________________________________
"Several hundred counter-demonstrators"?
More MSM leftist bias showing.
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