Clear Channel tacitly supporting pro-war rallies.

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p.s.: THESE ARE NOT PRO-WAR RALLIES. These are "Rallies for America", rallies (or is it rallys? -- er, I really don't care anymore) that celebrate America and show support for the troops. One of the first rallies, in fact, opened up with a prayer for peace by an Muslim imam.

You want to talk about balance and illicit funding? What about all those anti-war rallies? Many of them are funded by Communist organizations that provide the protestors with ready-made signs that say all manner of nasty things about Bush and Blair but don't say a single thing about the evil deeds of Saddam Hussein. In fact, at an anti-war rally in London, when a woman who fled Iraq in '91 to live in England wanted to talk to the crowd about the horrors she suffered under the Hussein regime, she wasn't allowed to do that. She was pushed away. Why was she? Why couldn't she talk about something that had all the relevance in the world to the issue these people were supposedly protesting?

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 3 April 2003 02:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I must have missed something. . . where are these lies that you are referring to? It seems like yr statement jibes pretty well with what the Tribune article had to say (the radio stations are using their airwaves to organize political rallies).

And Rallies for America = Rallies to Support the Policies of George Bush = Rallies to Support George Bush's War on Iraq. It's pretty silly to claim otherwise.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 April 2003 02:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

You guys are totally being fed major spin by ultra-left wingers who can't stand the fact that there are regular Americans out there who don't hate their country and that the actions of the regular people can have so much of an effect on the country.

Yeah, because anyone who would dare to suggest that they had a right given them by the founding fathers of this country to vocally oppose the current administration's policies obviously hates America.

As far as this "constitution" thingy that keeps coming up, Osama Hussein must have had a hand in it. Or the Taliban. Err, or Commies--those dirty red bastards are sneaky like that.

― webcrack (music=crack), Thursday, 3 April 2003 03:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, Dee, I just don't understand you at all. WHY does an anti-war rally HAVE to be automatically labelled as "anti-American", therefore making any pro-war rally "pro-American"? The Clear Channel rallies were more or less explicitly for the war itself, no matter how much they'd like to package it otherwise. This is not an issue of patriotism versus anti-patriotism; that's just a convenient rhetorical device that's useful to disguise the truth of what's going on. In any event, Clear Channel has just as much a right to support the war as other media outlets do not to support the war; however, I started this thread to discuss my outrage over the fact that Clear Channel is a purportedly apolitical media-based corporation, and is just further establishing itself as a bastion of corporate conservatism. There's no "ultra left-wing" conspiracy here, just a massive corporation -- NOT regular people, as you try to argue -- proving more and more each day that it's just the mouthpiece of Bush's agendas. Nice try, but your rhetoric just strikes a completely hollow note.

― justin s., Thursday, 3 April 2003 04:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

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