Ward Churchill/Fox News Incident at the Denver DNC
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There was no riot such as occurred nightly in Lincoln Park during the Chicago Democratic Convention on an almost nightly basis. Indeed the protest, which numbered about a 1,000 people, was mostly nonviolent.
The Sunday rally and march did have its colorful moments. There was a brief sit in at a Denver intersection that was broken up peacefully by police. And Fox New Correspondent Griff Jenkins was subjected to a good deal of abuse and even a little roughing up as he tried to cover the protest and at one point interview Ward Churchill.
The protestors, whose numbers were somewhat fewer than expected, seemed to have a myriad of causes. These included anti Iraq War, anti potential Iran War, anti New Cold War with Russia, anti Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, anti American "occupation" of Hawaii, anti European "occupation" of North America, and, apparently, anti Fox News. Unlike the massive anti Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, modern protestors are obliged to be a coalition of various groups with various causes, some of them bizarre, in order to beef up their relatively meager numbers.
The only incident that might have turned violent during the protest occurred when Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins attempted to interview Ward Churchill. Jenkins was subjected to considerable verbal abuse and was physically blocked from approaching Ward Churchill by one of the protestors. The situation was defused when someone managed to pull Griff Jenkins out of the middle of the gathering, angry crowd. Fox News, which tends to be more even handed in its reporting than other networks, seems to have become the focus of anger among some of the extreme left, much like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, the US military, and other institutions and people.
Ward Churchill is the former professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder who was fired for plagiarism. Before that Ward Churchill aroused the ire of many by suggesting that the victims who died during the 9/11 attacks were "little Eichmanns", suggesting that they and the United States brought the attacks on themselves.
Ward Churchill, Cindy Sheehan a candidate for Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House seat, Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Presidential candidate, and wounded Vietnam vet and activist Ron Kovic were featured speakers at the rally in front of the Colorado State Capital. After two hours of speeches, the march to the Pepsi Center, where the Democratic National Convention will occur, proceeded under the watchful eyes of police dressed in full riot gear.
The massive show of force by the police seemed to have tamped down any hint of violence from the protestors. However, Sunday's protest is just the first of five scheduled to occur in Denver.
Sources: Anti-war demonstrators rally at Colorado Capitol, Judith Kohler and Coleen Slevin, AP, August 24th, 2008
DNC: Inside the Protest Zone, Matt Brady, Fort Collins Now, August 24th, 2008
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Post a CommentI searched for the baby daddy thing, and I found a transcript off of CNN: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/02/se.06.html - just scroll down and you'll see it. The whole line was "My baby's daddy Barack Obama. Yeah!" - or perhaps "BABIES' daddy" since that's factually correct, not to mention that both sound pretty similar to begin with. Either way, one could argue that Michelle Obama was just being factually correct here and that some parts of the media got away with neglecting the apostrophe. AFAIK, "baby's daddy" and "babies' daddy" may not necessarily carry the same racial tone as "baby daddy" (again, AFAIK). I'm still not kidding about the Ron Paul cover up and Scott McClellan talking points, though. Google those... well, here's the Ron Paul one for starters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlacFmRGPgI .
This article nailed the coverage and the left. These protestors are like the Dem party. Tons of small fringe groups that band together to have a say. No wonder dems like Unions, it's their entire party system. It's also why a Dem will never speak poorly about anything other than a Republican. If you accept everything, you can object to nothing...
Michelle DID call Obama her "baby daddy". Don't blame Fox, it was her.
Wait, did this guy really just put "even handed" and Fox News in the same sentence?
This is the same Fox that aired the Michelle Obama, "Obama's Baby Mama" line on national televised news.
The same Fox, to which Scott McClellan admitted to sending Bush administration talking points.
The same Fox that brought up the innocuous "Terrorist Fist Jab" as a talking point.
The same Fox whose Republican primary debate "moderator" flat out told Ron Paul that he had no electability AND edited out Rep. Paul's response to the statement from subsequent debate airings (this coming from a Democratic supporter).
Heck, if Fox is more even handed than the other networks about anything, I'd say it's for giving the Republican party the benefit of the doubt - more than their good buddies at the White House had earned for the past 8 years.
Fox News, which tends to be more even handed in its reporting than other networks...
Yeah, I had to reread that a few times to see if I was getting that strait. Jeez, looks like Mark Whittington no longer has his Whits about him anymore.
"Fox News, which tends to be more even handed in its reporting than other networks..."
No, you surely can't be serious?
And Ward, you are dead on the money Sir!
Thugs for peace.lmao....it's more like neomarxist-anarchist-immoral left high on stupid whack jobs who believe in peace when it is convientent.Ethics,truth and reality are all subjective at the DNC...Meh
"Fox News, which tends to be more even handed in its reporting than other networks,..."
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Double-plus good!
Democrats protesting Democrats at the Democrat Convention? Sounds like idiocy, stupidity, cretinism, moronism, stultiloquence, bovinity, foolishness, insanity, lunacy, tomfoolery, inanity, imbecility, asininity, fatuity, abject stupidity, fatuousness, etc. And extreme thanks to the thesaurus. And if ya think this was special, just wait 'til next week at the Republican Convention in Minneapolis. I'll bet they raise a stink there too, although I haven't yet heard what there plans are just yet, but based on all we know of these braintrusts, it'll surely be a spectacle to behold. As long as these clowns are around, who needs Comedy Central? These "special people" just crack me up. Nice job Mark!