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Memo to Rush: Coming up on the 15th Anniversary of the March for Justice (with complete video)
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Posted on 07/03/2013 3:20:42 PM PDT by ken5050
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Here's the
link to FOUR HOURS of fascinating video. Bookmark this for later, when you have the time. You'll laugh, you'll cry..you'll see some old friends, and a few who have departed this mortal coil.
I was there..I'd joined FR a few months earlier..part of the GREAT FREEPER class of 1998. I learned that there were thousands around the country who felt the same as I did, and even more, FR made it fun for conservatives to protest, to vent. Up until then ..the left had the whole "demonstration" shtick to themselves..well, we found out that we were much, much better at it than they were..
So watch, enjoy, and if you have memories, and/or pics to share, please post 'em.
Matt Drudge spoke to the group, as did Ann Coulter. Connie Haire ( a.k.a Clinton's a liar) ran the show. Yup..FR launched more than a few careers.
Ann Coulter stood next to me for several hours..well, actually she paced back and forth next to where I was standing. I recall that she chain-smoked Gauloises continuously..easily several packs, and that her roots were really, really, dirty...happily, she has far more talented people doing her hair today.
Somewhere, I have a pic of me and Mr. Cigarman.
FReeps thus began as art form..and IMHO reached their culmination just after the 2000 election, when Freepers and others stood outside the Naval Observatory day and night, chanting for Gore to "get out of Cheney's house!"
In his superb book about that election, "At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the 2000 Election" Bill Sammon writes that the sound of Freepers yelling incessantly drove Gore nuts. He called John Sweeney, who was then the president of the AFL-CIO, and demanded that he bus down hundreds of counter-demonstrators. Sweeney promised to do so, but never did..it was the long Thanksgiving weekend, and they couldn't get any union people to come out.
So, yes indeed, that's the genesis of the Tea Party
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:20:42 PM PDT
by
ken5050
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:21:23 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
To: ken5050
"when Freepers and others stood outside the Naval Observatory day and night"
I made my Dad drop my bro and me off at the location and then we did a circumnavigation of the VP usurper's abode. ManBearPig is really just a HOG.
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:24:45 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: ken5050
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:25:28 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: ken5050
Bookmark for later.
How many of us joined through a link on Drudge — the old Whitewater files?
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:26:40 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
To: gorush
The c-span video is a hoot..a time warp..
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:27:16 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
To: afraidfortherepublic
and how could I forget to mention Lucianne Goldberg...FR made her, and thus launched her son..
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07/03/2013 3:29:47 PM PDT
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ken5050
(Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
To: ken5050
Thanks Ken5050. Great snag there. I’ll save the link and check it out again next week.
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:30:25 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recentI lo colonoscopy...)
To: servo1969
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:30:41 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
To: ken5050
I'm anxious to see it, thanks.
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:31:43 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: ken5050; bert
That was a great day. I made the Spinach Dip for the VIP tent. When Ann Coulter found out why, she almost got sick
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:32:17 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: ken5050
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:33:15 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: ken5050
Great history!
What did rush say about us today? In the car Rush was taken over by the film Ponyo.
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07/03/2013 3:35:28 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: ken5050
I attended! Some might remember the crazy guy running around asking people to sign his sweatshirt :)
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:38:17 PM PDT
by
HeartlandOfAmerica
(A Newly Arrived Convert to the Fair Tax! Abolish the IRS! Abolish the FED!)
To: ken5050
Thanks for the FR history! My first awarenes of FR was outside the Broward County courthouse, November 2000, protesting the illegal recount that was going on inside. The cops kept opposing sides at opposite ends of SE 6th Street, with a no-man's-land of media and LEOs in between. We had the leftards and Gorebots outnumbered at least 10-1, but some guy had sneaked behind "enemy lines" with a big FREE REPUBLIC sign that he hid until the camers looked his way, at which time he would raise the sign, so that the pro-Gore forces were on TV with a big Free Republic sign behind them!
Speaking of Bill Sammon, what evr happened to him?
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:38:57 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
To: ken5050
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:42:44 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: ken5050
My brother and I drove in from Wisconsin and I proudly carried Wisconsin’s flag in the opening ceremony. There was a get together at the AIA building that evening that we attended before driving all night to get home in time for the Packer game on Sunday. I’ve a stack of photos and great memories.
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07/03/2013 3:47:27 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: ken5050
Indeed, and what treasures they are.
To: ken5050
Wonderful. Thanks for posting and for the link ;)
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:56:34 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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