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Michelle Malkin
What I Saw At The Discombobulation
Michelle Malkin 8/27/2008
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DENVER — Never was so much hype created by so few to simulate the appearance of so many.

The hard-core left vowed to turn out 50,000 protesters for the Democratic National Convention this week. They pledged to "Re-create '68" and cause the kind of tear-gas-infused revolutionary havoc that marked the DNC in Chicago four decades ago. Police prepared for the worst riots. Media from around the world anticipated the best pictures.

But when rhetorical push came to real-life shove, the nostalgic, Marx-adoring organizers of Re-create '68 seem to have mustered no more than, oh, 68 bodies. Their presence here is dwarfed by the massive show of police, press and camera-toting looky-loos. You can't take a picture without someone else taking pictures of everyone else taking pictures of not much else getting in your frame.

The chaos-inducers' mouths were a mile wide. Their crowds have been an inch deep. What's left of the leftover '60s movement is all sizzle and no steak. Or veggie burger. Deep-fried tofu. Whatever.

At an abortion protest/counter-protest on Saturday in front of a Planned Parenthood mega-facility, I counted fewer
than a dozen pro-abortion activists milling about with three times as many media members. The majority of demonstrators were more exercised about the war in Iraq than about the vaunted woman's right to choose death for her unborn child — the stated focus of the demonstration.

And while Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean excoriates the Republican Party as the "white" party, I saw only one non-white agitator among the pro-abortion gaggle. (This goes for the rest of the Re-create '68 populace, too. It's as pale and colorless as a Colorado snowfall.) Across the street from the Planned Parenthood event, however, were many incensed black- and brown-skinned moms — incensed that an abortion mill had been built right across from the park where their children practice football and swing on the playground set.

One of the moms said bluntly: "I don't want a f**king abortion clinic in my neighborhood!" A Hispanic mother added: "It's against the Catholic Church." (Are you listening, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi?) When asked about her views on abortion, a black mother of three told me simply from her minivan: "I don't believe in it."

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Posted By: Brent J Greenwell  on Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Looks like Michelle was disappointed in not having her 68 style convention.  Sorry Michelle...say hello to Bill for me...


Posted By: Wood Lands  on Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Oh how I miss the days when I could look forward to the CaglePost newsletter.  Those were the days when the content was sharp, funny, and even insightful satire in the form of political cartoons.



Now my inbox is filled with hate-fueled inanities by "columnists" like Michelle Malkin. If I had known at the time how low Cagle's newsletter would go, I never would have subscribed.



Unfortunatly, we're no longer given an option.  The unsubscribe feature has been (intentionally?) broken, forcing us to watch Daryl Cagle's experiment in sullying his own name and reputation by distributing this filth.



A pity.


Posted By: Rob  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

Great reporting, Michelle!

Unfortunately, the negative comments posted in here by "in self denial" Democrats do not wish to look themselves in the mirror.


Posted By: S. Bielfeldt  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

I am not sure of the point by this author.  Re-creating 1968 must include the Selective Service System and the draft - as someone old enough or any researcher would recall.  Today only 2% of the population is suffering the effects of this disastrous lack of perspective in this Administration's foreign policy.  2009 - The End of An Error


Posted By: Pete  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

Michelle, you really are a stench in the nostrils of the word "decency."  A member of the hate-filled, jealous, angy caravan of Republican hatred and intolerance that has for so long swept its filthy way across this nation and country.  You and those like you are not even a fit subject for moral judgement. A typical blend of "Leave It To Beaver" and..."Deliverance."  Yes, by all means, let us actively encourage the reproduction or more children - that you and your ilk might fill them with the same poison which inhabits both your body and soul.  You're just another vicious, angry, disaffected unfortunate.  Another disciple of hate. How predictable and thoroughly expected of you.


Posted By: Sadly agreeing  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

Reply to WOOD LANDS (cute nick)



I sadly have to agree with you.  Although I mostly look at the pictures... the words make my eyes hurt and my brain ache...



My doctor says I have an allergy to right-wing straw-grabbing.



On a serious note... I'm British, living in Spain (the one in Europe).  I am seriously confused by the non-white population in the US.  It seems that the majority of RW idiots who write columns are not white republicans!  Is racial hatred so bad in the US that coloured and asian reporters have to appear whiter than white to survive?  Or has the oppression of cultural minorities advanced to the point that the minority groups have decided to join with their oppressors?



Ok, it might be racially dubious to assume that a asian/coloured US citizen would be a democrat... but then when you only have 2 political parties (both wanting pretty much the same thing, BTW) you can hardly blame me.


Posted By: DJ  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

Go Michelle!!!  Long live freedom of speech.


Posted By: ellis  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

why does anyone want to read the cockeyed ideas of a person who could not pass an 8th grade iq test. we have really sunk to listening to the lowest common denominator of pundits.


Posted By: Bob from LI  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

Michelle...Michelle... why is it that you must knock down anything that will improve our country and get rid of your Fantastic Fascistic Friends?  Protesters?  Who cares?  Wait 'til next week!


Posted By: Ken G  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

So Michelle is disappointed because there are no riots at the DNC?  Sorry it it is because the party and the country are united behind it.  Land slide Obama.  It's the next convention where the riots are - plenty to protest there.


Posted By: Dalt  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

"A member of the hate-filled, jealous, angy caravan of Republican hatred and intolerance that has for so long swept its filthy way across this nation and country."



Whoa Pete!  Hate? Jeez dude, re-read what you said, then look up ironic.

Afterwards, get some help dude, you're close to going up on the roof with a Magnum.


Posted By: kg  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

Michelle is all disappointed because the Democratic Party is united and there are no riots?  LOL.  Obama Landslide  - and yes you are still irrelevant Michelle.


Posted By: Jason  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

Bravo Michelle!  Finally, a person of the media who doesn't have an agenda to push...you speak the truth.  



As for the gentleman named "Pete" who posted his comment, your comments would be better served if you didn't decide to sound so righteous.  In regards to substance, of course, you couldn't be more wrong or sound more like the loser you truly are...I've come to expect that from the anti-family, anti-business, anti-American Democrats.  You sir, are one of their ranks.  


Posted By: outsider  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

"Anti-family, anti-business, anti-American" Democrats?  What a crock. That's about as valid as "anti-poor, anti-worker, anti-minority" Republicans. And did anyone really expect many protesters in Denver, of all places? Or protesters in the Twin Cities, for that matter?


Posted By: Webster  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

How do I keep this fascist propaganda from infiltrating my email box again?



Michelle, go back under your rock.


Posted By: Glennis  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

Amazing how the left gets so bent out of shape at the very idea that those in opposition to them actually have the right to speak that they become the same vicious, hate-filled, name calling deranged beings they accuse the right of being.  Pete, take a chill pill.  As for the article, so there were no demostrations of note in Denver.  I say good.  It's about time the children stayed home and let the adults go about their business.


Posted By: jack sprat  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

Pete/Sybil

My congratulations, you almost waxed “poetic”, oddly you completed full sentences and made a point, of sorts. Perhaps, though, you could have given an example of “her” hate speech, it would have been illustrative and helped make your point better and less a vacuous accusation. Like her pointing to the visceral hatred shown in the button which said, “"Kill Michelle Malkin."  Now that makes her point, that hate speech is OK as long as you’re on the side of the “Loon Beams”.  Also, she more than adequately pointed to, as does the bulk of the posts, to the shear animosity of any one who doesn’t agree with the loon beam cosmological point of view.

Like the brit that wrote so eloquently, confidently forgetting their “empire’s” policy of mandating sterilization of Indians (no, the real ones, but then apparently his old maps which the “sun never sat on” had more that one Spain, the botched partition in which millions of "little brown people" were killed, and the effective policy of apartheid of South Africa. I am ever so grateful for perhaps the latest, greatest cultural gift, other than the BBC admitting the rank liberal/socialist bias, the “Ode to Spam by Python”, although I did like Benny Hill. Tell us, have you “raised up” any more recent Chamberlains, since Tony Blair proved to be too much man for you?


Posted By: Jim  on Thursday, August 28, 2008

Pete, your comments about Michelle being so filled with hate are so ON BROTHER. I mean who was it that was yelling kill the other side, who called them "filthy," "vicious," quilty of poisoning the young and other mean and hateful smears? Oh yeah, wait a minute it was you and the other leftists who were doing that, not Ms. Malkin. She was the extremist who did not agree that mothers should kill their unborn children. What a Monster that woman is.


Posted By: Fiftysomething  on Friday, August 29, 2008

Wow, this article was pretty twisted. I think the main point that needs to be made here was that the convention was a great success. Obama did a fantastic job last night at dispelling many of the outright lies being painted about him by McBush's current commercial blitz. I've voted Republican BTW more often than Democrat but with the current state that Bush & Co has put the country in, my new position is No Way, No How, No McCain!. See you in November.

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