More on the Peace Rally, Plus Linkspam
++ Student protesters, fighting image of apathy, call for a cohesive antiwar movement.
++ LA Times coverage of Saturday's protests.
++ Dem in VA has compiled a massive photo diary with definitive diary links collection of Saturday's DC protest. I'm not on there yet but he promised to add me. *is huge attention whore*
++ John at AmericaBlog has a great post up about some of the problems with the march, specifically the anti-Israel crowd that always seems to pop up at these things [emphasis mine]:
Joe and I are heading down to the peace rally in an hour, to take photos, etc. And I'm watching it on C-Span right now, and I'm asking myself - though I'm not surprised - why is some woman from the "US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation" speaking? And why is she speaking, ad naseum, about the "Israeli occupation of Palestine" rather than speaking about the war in Iraq? She gave 10% of her speech to Iraq and spent the rest of the time railing against Israel?
First off, wrong topic.
Second off, way to alienate most Jews in America, a rather influential group of people we could use as allies.
Third off, way to alienate the rest of us who don't hate Israel, don't hate the Palestinians, and don't feel that the problem over there will be solved by simply blaming everyting on Israel - there's more than enough blame to go around. And in any case, this rally has nothing to do with Israel leaving Palestine, so STFU and stay on topic.
YES ZOMG THANK YOU. I could go off on a whole rant about this - and in fact, I was going to do a whole seperate post about it yesterday - but I think John said it all for me.
Anyways, onto some linkspam.
++ Air America rescued from Chapter 11 bankruptcy! Yaaaaaaaaay.
++ Al Franken is leaving Air America to (possibly) run for Senate.
++ Hillary & Obama battle it out for Hollywood elite's millions.
++ Bush's 'clean fuel' move may cause more harm, say environmentalists.
++ Mixed reviews for Hillary in Iowa.
++ Was 9/11 really that bad? Well, yes and no.
++ Attack ads go online and underground.
++ LA Times coverage of Saturday's protests.
++ Dem in VA has compiled a massive photo diary with definitive diary links collection of Saturday's DC protest. I'm not on there yet but he promised to add me. *is huge attention whore*
++ John at AmericaBlog has a great post up about some of the problems with the march, specifically the anti-Israel crowd that always seems to pop up at these things [emphasis mine]:
Joe and I are heading down to the peace rally in an hour, to take photos, etc. And I'm watching it on C-Span right now, and I'm asking myself - though I'm not surprised - why is some woman from the "US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation" speaking? And why is she speaking, ad naseum, about the "Israeli occupation of Palestine" rather than speaking about the war in Iraq? She gave 10% of her speech to Iraq and spent the rest of the time railing against Israel?
First off, wrong topic.
Second off, way to alienate most Jews in America, a rather influential group of people we could use as allies.
Third off, way to alienate the rest of us who don't hate Israel, don't hate the Palestinians, and don't feel that the problem over there will be solved by simply blaming everyting on Israel - there's more than enough blame to go around. And in any case, this rally has nothing to do with Israel leaving Palestine, so STFU and stay on topic.
YES ZOMG THANK YOU. I could go off on a whole rant about this - and in fact, I was going to do a whole seperate post about it yesterday - but I think John said it all for me.
Anyways, onto some linkspam.
++ Air America rescued from Chapter 11 bankruptcy! Yaaaaaaaaay.
++ Al Franken is leaving Air America to (possibly) run for Senate.
++ Hillary & Obama battle it out for Hollywood elite's millions.
++ Bush's 'clean fuel' move may cause more harm, say environmentalists.
++ Mixed reviews for Hillary in Iowa.
++ Was 9/11 really that bad? Well, yes and no.
++ Attack ads go online and underground.