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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-18-06 09:35 AM
Response to Reply #60
73. He's correct in that people are responsible for not taking to the streets
I did take to the streets in Minneapolis on October 5, and I could see many people applauding and waving and honking their horns, only a few expressions of disgust, but most of all apathy. At least half the people we passed by simply ignored the two-block-long procession marching down one of the main streets of downtown.

He's also correct in saying that the MSM have not emphasized this issue enough. It's more important to spend 2/3 of each local newscast on weather and high school sports. It's more important for local newspapers to do as the Minneapolis Star-Tribune did last spring and put an article about the expense of attending prom on the front page.

If our MSM get any fluffier we'll have to tie our TVs down to keep them from floating away.
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