Posted on 11/20/2002 4:49:42 PM PST by Samurai_Jack
Jeepers Freepers Al Gore says he was terrorized by "busloads of people" organized by the Republican Party, protesting outside the vice presidential residence during the 2000 Florida presidential recount. In an interview with Barbara Walters on ABC, Mr. Gore talked about the "the organized chanting round-the-clock," and said: "Well, this was the Republican response to what was happening during that 36-day period, and they organized busloads of people that came and stood outside the house all day and all night screaming at the top of their lungs." Says Mr. Gore's daughter, Karenna: "It was right-wing groups, it was definitely Bush-campaign-oriented effort to bus in people to have a sort of siege at the vice president's house, and, so, they were all lining there, screaming, and it was kind of an assortment of groups. I mean, some of them were anti-abortion groups, and some of them were pro-gun groups. But they were all screaming, 'Get out of Cheney's house,' the whole time." In point of fact, the Republican Party did not organize the protests, nor were "busloads" of protesters sent in by other groups. The protests against the inventor of the Internet were organized on the Internet. Specifically, the protests were started by the "Freepers" on Free Republic (www.freerepublic.com), "an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism." Free Republic was founded by Jim Robinson, a Vietnam veteran living in Fresno, Calif., and the protests on Massachusetts Avenue outside the Naval Observatory were organized by Washington, D.C. area members. Also, Mr. Gore might like to know that it was a Freeper who designed a widely circulated parody of the Gore-Lieberman 2000 logo: "Sore Loserman."
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Thats my favorite line whole article. Heeheeheee.
heh-heh
DOPE
HEMP
For the Dole/Kemp ticket, pretty funny, looked totally legit from afar..
That was not a parody, it was merely a bumper sticker of the Libertarian Party's entire platform.
The same thing happened at Andrews AFB when Elian was taken there. Instead of going to the WH that Saturday, I diverted to Andrews and saw all the media, switched to the devil costume and a sign that read, "Satan To Elian, Got To Hell Kid". WMAL reported it and people just came down to join. I had at least 50 people say, "I heard about you on the radio and I decided to come down."
alisasny heard them discussing how they had to get to another parade later that day and do it all again to get paid for the day.
Hoo-Yah!!
I had to be content with downtown Bakersfield in California, but we did get on the news!
LOL!!
That's terrific!
In 2000 I just called my husband and myself "Bodies for Bush" as we showed up at rallies before the primary and the general election, demonstrations after the election, and :-) at the Inauguration (because we knew there would be Gore protestors, we decided to spend the money going to prove that nice people from all over had support and voted for this great man.)
It was during the post election fight that I found the FReepers, and had to be content with lurking until Jim Robinson personally helped computer illiterate me sign up. What a great day that was!
HELLO, KANSAS! from the Central Valley of California, home of Jim Robinson, our hero.
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