Fox News: NYC Protests got well UNDER 100,000 people!

Fox News | February 15, 2003

[Dont Mention the War]

A reporter at the UN just reported that the Manhattan protests got nowhere *near* the 100,000 they were predicting, big empty holes in the specified protest area, and sporadic arrests. It's already broken up because they never got to critical mass.

A total failure!

[frosty snowman]

Yep, 'hundreds of thousands' is the favorite media catchphrase of the day. Regardless of whatever the real numbers are, they already decided how to report it.

[jmaroneps37]

Just another instance where the rat media is finding out that it does not control what is and what is not news. Pravda is shutting down. Before FOXtv talk radio and the net, the evil donkey would announce, through it's media lackeys that there were 2 million swine at this rally and the lemmings would believe it. The rest of us would not believe it but; we would have no way to refute it. NOT NOW!! They are losing. We are winning.

[PianoMan]

I just looked at the NY Times article about the protests on their Web Site. Every report is from Europe!!! Doesn't that strike anyone as strange?? BWAHAHAHA!

[StriperSniper]

At the Texas Motor Speedway, we can get 250,000 people to show up for a whole weekend

Dale Jr. just won the Busch race in Daytona in front of almost that many. ;-)

(That makes 3 for 3 for him this week so far, with the 500 tomorow :)

[demnomo]

The reason that the numbers are so high in London, Berlin and Rome are because of the high numbers of Muslim immigrants who are attending. (One AP pic had a Middle Eastern-looking "peace" protestor holding a gun in the air. It was hilarious!) European cities are chock-full of rabid, anti-US, anti-semitic, Osama and Saddamn admirers. Add to the mix, a bunch of communists and their spawn (whom Osama has told his followers are the enemy of my enemy so join them for now even if they are atheist infidels that will have to convert to Islam or be taken out once their usefulness is over) and you have a sizable protest.

It won't change a thing in the long run. Saddamn and Osama are not for peace. The US and its Allies are going in regardless of these cowardly and/or terrorist-coddling creeps.

[Paul Atreides]

Liz Trotta wiped the floor with Hat Chick.

It's funny; as I saw a little of that exchange, I looked at the scowling face of the pro-Saddam harridan and thought to myself "what is it with leftist women always going to protests wearing big floppy hats?".

[demlosers]

Looking at that picture you may have 30,000 protesters, certainly not "100,000" -- total BS.

[pabianice]

Hundreds of thousands of protestors pack in front of a stage in London's Hyde Park, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2003, for a rally against a possible war with Iraq. (AP Photo/Andrew Parsons)

Not hardly. About 10,000 most of them Muslim immigrants.

[andy58-in-nh]

...what is it with leftist women always going to protests wearing big floppy hats?".

I think it's called "Bella Abzug Syndrome".

[Destro]

To be fair the judge's ruling to pen up the march in a confined area for security purposes may have reduced the size.

[angkor]

Hundreds of thousands of protestors pack in front of a stage in London's Hyde Park

I'm sorry, that picture doesn't show more than 20,000 people.

[Dont Mention the War]

They've been reporting inflated numbers, with the London correspondent (a combo John Cleese/Matthew Lesko) reporting "500,000, one million, possibly two million protestors."

You mean this dork?

Isn't he the one that always shows up on Newsnight laughing and lurching towards the camera every time they do a story on the Royal Family?

[Paul Atreides]

What is truly B.S. is the fact that, if they did have 100,000 people protesting, the figure is not that impressive when you consider the population of NYC, if not the United States.

[stlrocket]

[Bella]

I agree..if you notice from other protests, they always the same numbers..I'd like to see some aerial shots.

[LandofLincoln]

It is time that the US tells the rest of the western world that they are on their own. We should pull all US troops out of France, and Germany. We have 80,000 troops in Germany, which has 11.0% unemployment. I'll bet many Germans work because our 80,000 troops add something to their economy. And it is time that we pull those guys out, and discontinue all aid to those countries. We have a country that is struggling to come out of a hard recession, a country with a $326 billion, we give twice that out in aid each year. If we cut all aid immediately, we would have a true surplus, and we need it. We were never a better nation than when we produced for ourselves, by ourselves. Not the right way to think, but when you are driven to that decision. I teach my kids, "you get what you give." Let us teach those who shy away from their leadership role, that they are not leaders, nor do they deserve to be leaders. A leader is someone who can do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, regardless of how unpopular it is, and regardless of self-political risk (knid of like what Tony Blair is demonstrating right now).

I hate the thought of war. But, it is better to correct this type of stuff when it is still small scale, than to wait until it is to big to deal with.

[woofie]

I saw 2 protesters on the streets of Albuquerque....they wanted spare change though, does that count?

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Wouldn't it be tough if the terrorists picked now to launch their next stunt...

Terrorists don't bite the hand that feeds - it's up to the allies to fight the war at home also. Liberating Iraq is just one part of the war - the other (and the more important one - I believe) lies at home.

[angkor]

Yeah, and I also meant this other dork.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Hundreds of thousands of protestors pack in front of a stage in London's Hyde Park, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2003, for a rally against a possible war with Iraq. (AP Photo/Andrew Parsons)

 

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