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Fox News: NYC Protests got well UNDER 100,000 people!
Fox News
| February 15, 2003
Posted on 02/15/2003 12:13:01 PM PST by 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!
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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To: StopThePress; crazykatz; Destro; FormerLib
Our family protested the bombing of Serbia and people here in Seattle walked by and cursed us.
Now they are instantly peaceniks and all worried about bombs hurting children. Funny how that happens.
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posted on
02/15/2003 1:12:28 PM PST
by
MarMema
To: TLBSHOW
That man needs a good night's sleep.
His bags are now part of his chin.
82
posted on
02/15/2003 1:12:56 PM PST
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Ya heard it first here, folks. Dorkdome)
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To: 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.Exactly. Even if we accept the highest numerical claim of every single turnout at every rally on the planet today, it still only adds up to .00001% of the population.
The truly amazing thing is that I've seen all three news channels making this point today! Even CNN is asking "What the hell is it these people want? Where are their solutions?"
To: seamole; areafiftyone; abner
More confirmation that numbers are grossly inflated. Wish someone would tell Drudge to change his misleading headline.
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posted on
02/15/2003 1:19:53 PM PST
by
StarFan
To: Ickey
If we don't accept that there are millions of people opposing this war we're just lying to ourselves. Accept the situation and prepare a response. Ignoring reality is not going to help our effort.I accept it. I just don't believe it matters. Millions are not enough to effect change, particuarly when 90% of them are outside the US. Sure, a lot of people went out and stood around today to show their discontent. And then they went home. What does that change except for the amount of overtime the Sanitation Department is going to get tomorro in all those cities?
I will admit, though, that I found this poster kind of funny:
Is that Prince holding it up?
To: Willie Green
I hope she was dumb enough to get permanent tatoos.Sadly, they appear to have been drawn on with a Magic Marker.
To: stlrocket
ROTFLAMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: Dont Mention the War
There is also a pro war rally going on in N.Y. today.
I heard last evening on talk radio.
Good luck trying to find anything on it on t.v.
89
posted on
02/15/2003 1:23:55 PM PST
by
ZEET
To: nocommies
up yours, tim robbins. never knew who you are, but now i care. TRAITORS!! God help us all if Kevin Bacon ever speaks out publicly. We'll never be able to rent another movie again ever!
To: bvw
That aerial picture of the park with two large groups -- I estimate to 20-40 thousand people, based on sampling a smaller part of it. Not a hi-res picture, that's a ballpark estimate.There is computer software now that can analyze photos and estimate crowd sizes. It's still a bit flaky, but certainly more accurate than the numbers that everyone else - the protesters, media *and* police - are all pulling out of their butts.
To: P.O.E.
Fox just now showing aerial coverage of the protests in Seattle. It looked like less than 1000 people, spread out over a good 7-10 square block area. Total failure.
To: MarMema; RJayneJ
"Our family protested the bombing of Serbia and people here in Seattle walked by and cursed us. Now they are instantly peaceniks and all worried about bombs hurting children. Funny how that happens." Didn't you get your memo back in 1999 from the Left?
You know, the one that said "Clinton, Schroeder, Chirac war on Serb Christians = Good; War on Iraqis = Bad".
Funny how Clinton, Schroeder, and Chirac could wage war on Serbia in 1999 without the UN, but heaven help anyone else waging it that way.
By the way, is there even a war in Iraq yet?
If these "protestors" truly want peace, then they should be demanding that Iraq publicly disarm in the same manner as did South Africa at the end of Apartheid.
But these protestors don't truly want peace. Heck, they didn't protest the Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, or Kurdish massacres over the last ten years.
The organizer behind these protests, International ANSWER, is a front for the Workers' World Party, the very same WPP that SUPPORTED the Soviet military invasion of Hungary in 1956.
Thus, these protests are as much pro-Communist as anything.
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posted on
02/15/2003 1:35:59 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Dont Mention the War
The protests in Iraq were the best. Many of the peace protesters were in uniform and some were carrying AK-47's.
94
posted on
02/15/2003 1:36:03 PM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
To: Southack
You know, the one that said "Clinton, Schroeder, Chirac war on Serb Christians = Good; War on Iraqis = Bad".Didn't Clinton, of all people, do the old Cruise-missile-up-the-camel's-butt thing after Saddam tried to assassinate 41 in 1993? Clinton BOMBED IRAQ. Where were the protests?
To: Dont Mention the War
BWAHAHAHAHAA
The DUmmies and other Anti-American Saddam Hussein fan club members think their hate march actually made a difference.
ROFL
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posted on
02/15/2003 1:40:22 PM PST
by
finnman69
(!)
To: angkor
Matthew Lesko! LOL You nailed it!!!
97
posted on
02/15/2003 1:46:18 PM PST
by
SerpentDove
(Shave the whales.)
To: StopThePress
"...were there these kinds of protests when we dropped bombs on Serbia?"
There was at least one, in Washington, D.C., where c.30,000 people marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon. The original purpose was to protest the threat to bomb Serbia over their actions in Kosovo, but by the time it took place, the bombings had occured and the Serbs had already capitulated to ... to NATO, I guess. I was there to register my protest, because I never did, and still do not, see where the US had any interest, right or authority to tell Serbia how to fight an anti-terroist campaign against the Albanian UCK, which even our own State Department called terrorists. Most people there seemed to be Serbian-Americans. No surprise, but the various left-wing protest groups took over the programing, and gave speeches insiting that the US "free Mumia" and pardon Leonard Peltier, and spend lots of money on their pet projects. What this had to do with the issue at hand, the US intervening in the Balkins, I have no idea, and said so - loudly - at the time. I was told, both politely and not so politely, to shut up and go along with the program.
VietVet
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posted on
02/15/2003 1:47:42 PM PST
by
VietVet
To: angkor
>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."
If by the London protest, you mean at Hyde park, there is an aerial pic on another thread. Like the million mom march there is a crowd near the speakers tent, but not near the numbers advertised. Someone could do an analysis, but it was not 500K.
To: Dialup Llama
>>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."
Am I bid 3 million? Do I hear 3 million? Anyone for 3 million? Someone tell the BBC reporter that estimating crowds is not an auction.
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