Strike a Pose
George W. Bush move over. I have now discovered the real force behind the Lebanese independence movement: Madonna!
Now her American Life album finally makes sense.
UPDATE: You do have to be impressed with the size of the Lebanese independence protest.
They are almost as large as the anti-Bush protest in New York city prior to the Republican convention last year that the media largely portrayed as three hippies and a granola cruncher.
Apparently, back then, democracy wasn’t “on the march.”
March 15th, 2005 at 10:59 am
Nothing quite like hot, Lebanese chicks sitting on the shoulders of their hunky boyfriends while holding English-written signs in their Arabic-speaking country protesting against their Arabic-speaking Syrian occupiers!
March 15th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
Looks to me like one o’them there focus groups.
March 15th, 2005 at 7:26 pm
Good point. I wonder if there are any archived photos of Lebanese people in the worldwide, pre-invasion, protest against Bush’s Iraq War?
March 15th, 2005 at 7:36 pm
I was in one of yon pre-war protests, in NYC as a matter of fact. My thumbnail estimate was 3 to 4 hundred thousand people present; through the clever expedient of police diversions of protestors to other streets, limiting the size of the “actual” protest, the neo-Republican mayor could report to his new overlords that he kept the protest under 100,000.
Naturally, the Grey Lady and the rest of the MSM didn’t bother doing, say, an actual count, thereby ignoring that around 5% of the population of the City attacked on 9-11 opposed the Iraq war enough to take to the streets on the coldest day in years.
Imagine that: the best way to fight a protest, it seems, is to deny that it ever happened. Well, it’s good to see Lebanese stand and be counted; since, naturally, it’s a protest against Bush-villain-of-the-week Syria, our MSM can duly cover the protests.
Charming.