Well, this should come as no suprise to Kossaks everywhere... there is some truth to the claim advanced that the corporate controlled media fails to cover the GOOD NEWS in... the USA.
You see, last Friday, Bush was in California, raising money and pretending to give a shit about California and hiding from real American citizens who wanted to 'Unwelcome Bush'!
But, if you looked hard for it, you could find a few small articles about protests at Stanford University, but about the demonstration in California's Napa Valley Wine Country??? Nada! Bupkis!
Until some of us decided to cover this ourselves that is.
PLease make the jump...
You see there were no car bombs, no gunfire, even though the Coward from Crawfish,TX brought a couple of Apache gunships, 27 SUVs full of gun-toting agents, and a phalanx of California Highway Patrol and local police to defend himself from 3 to 4 thousand American citizens with signs and 'songs that they carry inside'.
I guess it is not 'news' anymore that Americans don't like the leaky 'Collander-in-Cheeze' Bushiter's wasting of 2392 American lives in Iraq with thousands more maimed, along with tens of thousands wounded and dead Iraqis. The corporate controlled rightwing media did not cover our little unwelcoming ceremony because there were no arrests, no violence photos and only one 12 year-old kid hit by a bicyclist.
But, never fear, WE covered it. The Mrs took a few photos and we published a story with links to a 31 shot photo album at:
The ePluribusMedia story.
The MyLeftWing story.
The local newspaper, the "Napa Register" pushed a front page story TODAY about the Secret Service liked the way the Napa Sherriff's department responded to the Bushiter's visit, and brayed about how one local law enforcement official got to ride right in the Bushiter's limosine as they went up to bike ride through a big horn sheep preserve for Earth Day. The Bushiter even gave the rube a pair of 'presidential biking socks'. Ooooooh, sweat socks! Not even a T-shirt.
What a bunch of MORONs. To be bought off with a pair of sweat socks while Halliburton steals our children's future is not something I'd want to tell my grandkids about.
Imagine for a moment... "Here are a pair of sweat socks I got from the worst president in the history of the US! And these socks only cost us our pensions and cost you your college educations!"
The truth is a bunch of American families went up to tell the Bushiter we don't want him coming and disturbing our peaceful little green valley with his blood-soaked presence. We weren't armed, we didn't riot, we brought kids and babies, not guns, torches and pitchforks. We even notified every attendee that we intended to turn any lawbreakers to local law enforcement ourselves.
So the circling gunships, the SWAT team, the machine guns, the batons and helmets, the tactical gear and teargas were just plain uneeded. Unless... maybe you were a Coward from Crawfish, TX.
RedMeatDem