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Fifth Column
What if they gave a protest and nobody came?
2006-03-21
SCOTTSDALE - It was a very small army that protested the Iraq war Friday outside the Scottsdale offices of U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth.
An army of two.
But the Arizona Repugnant felt bound to cover it anyway?
Only two peace activists stood near Raintree Drive and Northsight Boulevard, holding anti-war posters for passing cars to see.

The protest, part of a national campaign to call attention to the human cost of the war, urged Hayworth, R-Ariz., to support legislation reducing the U.S. troop presence in Iraq.

"The ways of peace are not bombings and breaking into houses and scaring little children and families," said Judy Whitehouse, 63, of Phoenix, adding that pulling troops out of Iraq would force Iraqis to work together in building a society.
It would also embolden al-Qaeda no end.
Linn Russell, 56, of Scottsdale, said the war is being mismanaged and shows President Bush is unqualified.

"I feel he's a leader who has failed to lead us in moments of crisis and is leading us in the wrong direction politically," Russell said.

Hayworth was not at his office.
Posted by:Korora

#6  Reddy was created at the Alabama Power Company and debuted March 11, 1926.
http://www.answers.com/topic/reddy-kilowatt
Posted by: Darrell   2006-03-21 21:44  

#5  I was a tiny tot then. But I remember seeing his work illustrating some local publications, like for APS (didn't he do Reddy Kilowatt?) and some other stuff.

Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-03-21 21:34  

#4  I used to deliver that paper during the Watergate era, DB. When their publisher died, they covered that as front page news every day for about a week. Are you old enough to remember their kitschy editorial cartoonist, Reg Manning? If you are, you'll chuckle at the mere mention of his name.
Posted by: ryuge   2006-03-21 21:07  

#3  The Arizona Repulsive has been historically staffed with hacks who couldn't cut it at the more famous big city papers. This is a paper that covered the opening of a Planet Hollywood as a major, front page event for days. I kid you not. Then, when the big stars didn't want to talk to them, they acted genuinely hurt. They're not exactly the creme de la creme, either journalistically or intellectually.

They can't get enough snotty, snide remarks in at President Bush, refuse to call illegal aliens anything other than "immigrants", and have never criticized Phoenix city government no matter what they do. The local "Pennysaver" has more integrity than the Repulsive ever had.
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-03-21 07:26  

#2  very eloquent Frank and well said..Hear hear!!

/i'll use that on another blog someday promise
Posted by: RD   2006-03-21 02:06  

#1  when you can name all the protestors onsite, it's not a protest, nor a tantrum, it's dingleberry on the ass of freedom
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-21 00:33  

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