Gathering Of Eagles Vs. ANSWER and Code Pink
Gathering Of Eagles was at it again this weekend. However, if we depend on the national media all we’ll hear about is the war protesters that Roger Simon describes this way:
What’s interesting is why this low turnout when, according to many polls, the public is supposedly massively against the war. If they are so antiwar, they certainly are pretty apathetic about it. This is another example of why Iraq is not Vietnam when filling the streets with demonstrators was a simple matter.
This also may mean that the public opinion polls themselves are not a decent measure of how people really feel. Although pollsters try, polls in general are particularly poor at measuring the depth of people’s convictions or natural human ambivalence. Ambivalent people don’t tend to get on a bus to go to a demonstration.
Victory Caucus provides this photo from the Gathering Of Eagles:
Michelle Malkin liveblogged the event. Read her account here. She quotes:
Pete Hegseth of Vets for Freedom:
“I figured I’d seize this opportunity to quote a man best known for his $400 haircut. He claims there are two Americas in this country. For once, he’s right. There are two Americas…on display here today.
One America here today to desecreate our war memorials…those who want to retreat from the battlefield teeming with Islamic extremists
On the other hand, there are those who are here to defend our memorials, who understand the threat we face. This America. Our America…We cannot let a bunch of sign-waving, slogan-chanting protesters…speak for us.â€
Hegseth mentions the MoveOn.org ad. “Stand up to the voices of defeat and retreat….As an infantryman who fought over there, I understand the difficulties…al Qaeda has drawn the line in the sand…I understand that Gen. Petraeus is working with American soldiers, brave Iraqis, to turn the tide in Iraq…Americans are saying, ‘We want victory.’â€
“History will judge us not by when we leave, but by what we leave behind…Tell Congress to have as much courage on Capitol Hill as our soldiers have on the front lines.â€
Go to this link for the Victory Caucus to see photos of the moonbats. The anti-war protest could have been more accurately billed as a communist rally, or a gathering of the truthers, or perhaps a simple name such as “Insanathon”. ANSWER and Code Pink are the democrat base. Get a look at who the democrats in Congress are shaping their policy for…
Powerline has more photos and commentary.
As does Sister Toldjah.
The national media prefers the protesters; they sensationally over-report their numbers. If they gave America a good look at those loons instead of inflating their numbers and validating their insanity, chances are sanity would prevail in this country. The left media instead wants to celebrate the crazies.
Thank God for the blogosphere. Thanks to Michelle and others who did a great job of covering the entire event. But most of all thank God for those individuals who stood out there and stood up for our guys in harms way. The eye pollution from the America haters must have been hard to take, and the noise pollution even worse. Michelle reports on it, but this site has a policy against profanity so I wont publish it here.
The Gathering of Eagles website is here. Support them any way you can.
Posted by Kathy
September 17th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Apathetic? Looks like Malkin is wrong yet again.
In October 2002, 150,000 people protested against the war in DC and San Francisco. November of 2002 another 500,000 in Italy. In 2003, another 150,000 in San Francisco.
On Feb 15, 2003, over 800 protests — listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the largest protest in history — included more than 2,000,000 in London.
According to the French academic Dominique Reynié, between January 3 and April 12, 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against the Iraq war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War
September 17th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Kenny H. Surely, you can do better than to refer to Wikipedia, the most worthless web page available.
September 17th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
…one more thing, Kenny, if protest are meaningful, President Nixon would have lost instead of winning 49 states in 1972.
Who cares how many leftists show up for a protest.
If you were to arrange a protest over white toilet paper, 50,000 leftist will show up.
Worthless and meaningless, just as polls are.
September 17th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
1. Roger Simon called them apathetic. I didn’t quote Michelle. Reading comprehension 101.
2. When people protesting in London can vote, then I’ll worry. And as far as quoting French scholars on the war, are you trying to be funny?
3. 70% (the proposed percentage of those against the war in some polls) of 100,000,000 voters would be 70,000,000. The actual turnout of 150,000 (which is a doubtful number but I’ll use it for the sake of argument) is 0.2% of the number of people the ‘polls’ say are against the war. - That makes the polls wrong and/or the other 99.8% of the anti-war voting population apathetic. Even if you throw in the foreign protesters they don’t participate in American polls.
4. Cindy Sheehan brought her protest to my hometown and chickened out when she saw the GoE protest that was planned to counter hers. That’s why she doesn’t do protests anywhere except San Fran and DC, cities where conservatives turned off the lights as they left years ago.
September 17th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
If you haven’t seen enough pictures yet, take a gander at these: Link
My favorite is fourth up from the bottom, although it’s a little scary to think about how many of these people might actually have college degrees.
Oh, and the latest ploy for the anti-war crowd can be found at Michelle Malkin’s blog called the left’s seditious war on military recruiters. (I didn’t want to add two links in case the blog software kicked it back.)
September 17th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Steph, nice link.
September 17th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Kenny H., all those figures mean is that the Left is out doing the thing that their deluded minds associate with the romantic notions of the 60s Berkeley war protest crowds; out with a picket and all their dope smoking friends being cool.
Conservatives typically work all week and relax with family and friends on the weekend. Looks like we’ll have to organize and rally more though to kick these idiots into the oblivion they deserve. Apparently the lefties in the protest slunk off with their tails between their legs when the GOE started calling out to them. The Left are cowards at the core.
September 17th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Steph, those are all great photos. Nice link.
The incredible stupidity displayed by the people in those pictures is just jaw-dropping.
“Stupid” as in uneducated, ignorant of history, and not knowing what in the world they are even saying.
As long as it sounds good on cardboard, the left loves it!!
September 18th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Love the ‘Cheese eating surrender Monkeys’ poster.