Patriotism Abounds

Useless · 2005-02-20, 09:56 AM

I'm not a patriot, but I support the troops. I just don't support what they are doing. That's what the right-leaning media doesn't get. I don't have to do both.

Though I doubt it will happen here, but in case it does, if anyone takes offense to me saying "I'm not at patriot" - I'm a veteran, fuck off.

docholly · 2005-02-20, 10:23 AM

Linkster..I know there are small minute pockets of protesters..like under 100 and sometimes under 10..and i understand about the filtering.. and actually i know they see very little.. my husband, ok recently ex-husband, is an officer in the USN. So I know what he used to tell me he'd see and i'm sure since we got divorced it hasn't changed in 8 months.

But the "caller" on this show said..

Quote:

we watched the news to see what's going on. And we saw the protests, and we saw what the media was saying about what's going on

i watch NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX every day.. all day.. (the old lady that lives here with us is a Fox freak) and other than about 30 seconds at the conventions, there has been no protest coverage at all.

military tv is very filtered. Greg (the ex) told me the coverage of the election was so minimal, most of his co-workers didn't even know who was running against GWB.

One of my cam girl's husband is a civilian in baghdad, who i talk to all the time on yahoo.. he said..they get zero news from home.. whatever they get they get off the net.

So i'm wondering how this caller can make such statements. I know that in the 60's and 70's every night Walter on CBS, Chet and David on NBC (and i forget on ABC) told us how many died, then show'd war protesters in SFO, NYC, Chicago, LA, ATL, DC etc.. it wasn't just a before the election then go hide somewhere, it was every day. and this is not an endorsement to go blow up Columbia U.

I think that this Friedeman guy made all this up. and Yes, i've emailed him because this is just the same old bull crap that gets those redstaters clapping.. "SEE i told you GWB was right". So IF "Rick from Winona MS" saw any action, he must have been logged into Camdollies.. cuz i'm sure he never saw the back side of a jarhead in Iraq.

...and i was being "nice" when i described Friedeman. lmao.

UW.. only under GWB is it considered un patriotic to question authority.

and since you put it that way.. i TOO must not be a patriot.

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ecchi · 2005-02-20, 11:51 AM

I think the anti war protesters have grown up a bit in the last 30 years. When I was a kid they were against the people who actually did the fighting, and returning heroes got spat on. Today most of them protest against the war and the government, not the heroes. And although they don't actually join in the applause, they don't condemn the returning warriors either, just the people who sent them there in the first place.

docholly · 2005-02-20, 09:01 PM

Ok I stand corrected.. dayam wished i'd known i'd of headed East..

Protesters gather in STL

Linkster · 2005-02-20, 11:28 PM

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?...tem&itemid=925

http://www.sfbayview.com/012605/noto...nt012605.shtml

http://www.freepress.org/departments...y/20/2005/1118

2005-02-20, 09:56 AM	#1
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2005-02-20, 11:51 AM	#3
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	I think the anti war protesters have grown up a bit in the last 30 years. When I was a kid they were against the people who actually did the fighting, and returning heroes got spat on. Today most of them protest against the war and the government, not the heroes. And although they don't actually join in the applause, they don't condemn the returning warriors either, just the people who sent them there in the first place.