’)I remember a time when conservatives thought protests were a waste of time and only idiots attended? Well now they’re shaking the very foundations of our society because some conservative wackadoos yelled some stuff.
Sigh.
(And I still maintain my disdain for protests that I had when liberals were doing them.)
UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds explains to us why we should disregard his previous line of b.s. for the new and improved crap:
But it’s much bigger news when 200 people with jobs who’ve never protested turn out, than when 20,000 of the usual suspects organized by ACORN or ANSWER march with preprinted signs.
That’s right, folks, the biased liberal media should pretend as if (generously estimated) 200 conservative crackpots do something and totally disregard 20,000+ liberals doing the same.
Yes, with brilliants like Rush, Sean, Ann, Glenn, and Newt how could they possibly go wrong?
Well, at least they were conscientious enough to obtain permits from the government to start a revolution against the government. What a joke.
Around 300 with “potential to have a million”?
Weren’t there actual millions against the Iraq war?
So, Instapundit linking to someone who thinks that the early anti-war protests were too focused on the protesters personal feelings, and another link where someone points out the factual connection between the early anti-war protests and a communist group means that conservatives think that protests are for idiots?
Remember how wingers were paying to put up billboards of Bush W. reading “Our Leader” or “Our President” or whatever?
Yeah. IOKIYAR.
IMO, dissent is patriotic. Please, throw all the tea parties you want. But at least have a little shame and realize the your howling levels of hypocrisy.
Republicans aren’t so good at that.
And what happened to the Right’s mantra of “We’re at war! We need to come together and support our President!”?
Glenn being Glenn
This is what happens when you Joe Plumberize the media.
If you’re kryptonite to stupid, Ollie, then the MSM is the lead that protects them from the kryptonite.
Are you suggesting Glenn “The independent totally libertarian and totally not a Republican” would be inconsistent and hypocritically favorable to Republicans?
Scandalous!
And I’m with you on the protests. They’ve never accomplished anything.
And I’m with you on the protests. They’ve never accomplished anything.
They seemed to have an effect on the Vietnam event while I was in the Army.
They seemed to have an effect on the Vietnam event while I was in the Army.
You may be right. What I should have said was “they seem to have never accomplished anything.” I’ve read quite a bit of modern revisionism suggesting that the protests were a minor factor. When the political scientist (whose name I’ve forgotten; Gitlin might have been involved) controlled the statistics for the amount of war violence shown on television, suddenly politicians came out against it. When they controlled for protest activity, there was no correlation.
Protest do work if the cause is popular. In the case of the Rethugs, it aint. Like the MSM, they’re seriously out of touch.
Because the majority of Americans see them as sore-loser, clueless morons who got us into this mess. Let them protest.
Conservatives suck at organizing rallies and protests, and they know it, so when they get get more than twenty people to show up at one place they are ecstatic.
If you are so impolite as to point out how pathetic the turnout is, they just respond that they are “just getting started”, and that “conservatives have jobs they have to go to”, unlike liberals who apparently have plenty of free time after cashing their government checks.
Bless their cold little hearts, no amount of FAIL will ever shake the conservative movement’s belief that the rest of America is looking to them for guidance.
The problem is (on the left) that people think that protest = end of Vietnam war when in fact it was protest + tons of bodybags + unwinnable stupid ass conflict that ended the Vietnam War. The idea that in the modern world you can do anything by just marching with a sign is the problem. Now, if you’ve got community organizers bringing people together working within the existing power structure, well you could do crazy stuff like electing a progressive black man with a weird sounding name the leader of the free world.