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There was a black-out and a white-out Thursday and Friday as over a hundred US veterans opposed to US wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, and their civilian supporters, chained and tied themselves to the White House fence during an early snowstorm to say enough is enough.
Washington Police arrested 135 of the protesters, in what is being called the largest mass detention in recent years. Among those arrested were Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who used to provide the president’s daily briefings, Daniel Ellsberg, who released the government’s Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration, and Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for the New York Times.
No major US news media reported on the demonstration or the arrests. It was blacked out of the New York Times, blacked out of the Philadelphia Inquirer, blacked out in the Los Angeles Times, blacked out of the Wall Street Journal, and even blacked out of the capital’s local daily, the Washington Post, which apparently didn’t even think it was a local story worth publishing an article about (they simply ran a photo of Ellsberg with a short caption).
Found by Cinàedh.
An anti-war protest against the White House is not in the interests of the Democratic Party, therefore the liberal media does not cover it. They get their talking points during daily morning calls from the White House. The biggest threat to Obama’s reelection is liberal estrangement due to not stopping the war effort. Highlighting protests only intensifies that. We won’t see any news campaigns about another 10 soldiers died today in the quagmire of Afghanistan.
Thanks for making this available.
Reality check:
During the Vietnam War era, there were war protesters chained to the White House fence all the time. I was in the Army, stationed not far from DC.
Basically, the protesters were ignored by the media and by the tourists, even during Watergate, because the hearings stole the limelight from the protesters.
This is America buddy, not Japan.
Take your peaceful protest and shove it.
Our editors know that we expect to see blood, guts and gore on our news.
If’n it ain’t shot up an’ bleedin’, it doan make da newz.
Remember how we used to laugh at Pravda?
Liberals were assuring us during the Bush Presidency that they were in favor of fighting the real war in Afghanistan. Turns out it was all a lie, just playing for votes. Despicable.