{"id":3274,"date":"2008-09-10T06:01:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2008-09-10T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T14:10:31","slug":"uncritical-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"Uncritical Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"

I missed the first two days of the convention due to a family emergency. I didn’t actually get <\/em>a lot of news; i didn’t go near downtown Saint Paul.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I had to depend on the news media for information. It was that bad.<\/p>\n

Like most party conventions, the RNC was pretty much a scripted, predictable pageant, up until Palin’s speech a week ago (for which I was <\/em>in attendance), so there wasn’t much news.<\/p>\n

Now, the mass of protesters – which turned out to be 1\/5 to 1\/10 as big as “organizers” had originally predicted<\/a>? They <\/em>got media coverage. Not only were most of the mainstream media gamboling about among the clots of the disaffected upper-middle-class whites on the street, but practically half of the “demonstrators” were calling themselves “media” as well. So the protests? Yes, they got covered.<\/p>\n

Well, let’s be clear; the parts of the protests that the agenda-driven leftymedia wanted covered – alleged police overreaching and alleged excessive force – got covered in slathering detail.<\/p>\n

Other stories? Like, atrocities committed by the anarkids?<\/p>\n

You can scan the lefty alt-media a long time and find no reference to anything like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One 80 year old delegate<\/strong> had to be hospitalized from the violence by the Leftists.<\/p>\n

The Alabama delegation was one of the buses<\/strong><\/a> that was attacked today in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

The Leftist, anarchist, Obama-supporting radicals attacked RNC delegates today at the Xcel Center and sprayed them with a toxic substance.<\/p>\n

An 80 year old RNC delegate had to be hospitalized!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With all the video cameras the likes of the Minnesoros Independent<\/em> were deploying, you’d think this bit of video<\/a> might have gotten some play. Molly Priesmeyer would probably breezily quip that they’re all just a bunch of old white people; but if she did, it’d be more coverage than all the rest the “citizen journalists” of the lefty altmedia devoted to the lethal attack <\/em>on people exercising their First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

They certainly didn’t cover this:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

As the Connecticut delegation was getting off a bus near the Xcel Center, a group of protesters broke free from authorities and attacked the delegates.<\/p>\n

Connecticut delegate Rob Simmons told FOX 9 that a group of protesters came toward his delegation and tried to rip the credentials off their necks and sprayed them with a toxic substance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The unknown substance burned their eyes and stained their clothes.<\/p>\n

One 80-year-old member of the delegation had to be treated for injuries,<\/strong> and several other delegates had to rinse their eyes and clothing.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or, um, this<\/a>?:<\/p>\n

…a busload of Cub Scouts were en route to the convention, where they were to present the colors to open the convention. A group of protesters–liberals, Obama supporters, or whatever–blocked the road, surrounded the bus, and attacked it, rocking the bus back and forth, denting and scratching the sides, and generally terrifying the children trapped inside. The left-wing protesters attacked a number of buses in the same way, but there is something especially despicable about attacking a group of Cub Scouts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(UPDATE: Powerline isn’t so sure about this one anymore.\u00a0 Let’s wait a bit on that).<\/p>\n

This<\/a>? No? Never mind.<\/p>\n

I know some of you leftymedia types read this blog. Where were you when your people <\/em>attacked the delegates? Most of these attacks occurred before the first demonstration, on 9\/1 (which was “highlighted” by anarkids smashing things and attacking the police).<\/p>\n

No, I don’t expect an answer. I’ve been asking leftymedia types to answer that one for a week now. Not one has ponied up yet.<\/p>\n

The leftymedia is shocked, shocked that the police – who did <\/em>know about the attacks – didn’t treat the demonstrators, or the lefty alt-media with whom they were pretty much indistinguishable, with kid gloves and greet them like heroes of liberal tolerance.<\/p>\n

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