I am going to copy a bit from a New York Times piece about the prostests. Otherwise, you prbably won't hear much about it, I suspect. The media is too afriad of being dubbed "liberal". Well, here it is:
"A roaring two-mile river of demonstrators surged through the canyons of Manhattan yesterday in the city's largest political protest in decades, a raucous but peaceful spectacle that pilloried George W. Bush and demanded regime change in Washington."On a sweltering August Sunday, the huge throng of protesters marched past Madison Square Garden, the site of the Republican National Convention opening today, and denounced President Bush as a misfit who had plunged America into war and runaway debt, undermined civil and constitutional rights, lied to the people, despoiled the environment and used the presidency to benefit corporations and millionaires.
"The protest organizer, United for Peace and Justice, estimated the crowd at 500,000, rivaling a 1982 antinuclear rally in Central Park, and double the number it had predicted. It was, at best, a rough estimate. The Police Department, as is customary, offered no official estimate, but one officer in touch with the police command center at Madison Square Garden agreed that the crowd appeared to be close to a half-million."
Of course CNN, and many other news outlets are pulling the whole, "tens of thousands" of protesters. Well, I am sorry, but in this case hundreds of thousands is the right way to put it. They are even too afriad too actually report the real news.
Posted by Paul Hina at August 30, 2004 12:31 AM