Tim Blair

But if a group of people recited the same chant outside a family planning clinic...

... they'd be just as predictable.

To which Rummy replied "One, and he was a suicide bomber!"

Jesus, let me guess. The protesters were all in their 50's and 60's, rather unkempt, and wearing beads.

Some people try to recapture their youth by buying a convertible and getting trophy wife. For others, it's the Vietnam time all over again!

A movement is doomed if it cannot come with new slogan in half a century.

hey, i'll be in sao paulo next month; i'll tell you how they taste!
but after a couple of caipirinhas everything tastes good...

That's right, Rummy! How many children has the Bush administration killed by trying to make "peace" with 'filthy murdering terrorist scum' instead of killing the aforementioned 'filthy murdering terrorist scum'?

I bet they were nude as well. Can't have a protest without being nude! Posteriors for Peace and all that.
Why is it they're all in their 50s and 60s? Why can't we have some nubile young nude protesters instead?

He should have replied " the day is still young."

Joh Bjelke-Peterson, former Qld state premier, used to call speaking to journalists at a press conference 'feeding the chooks.' Rumsfield just bites their heads off.

How many protesters were there?
A few socially dysfunctional people with their kids & a dog turn up for a public address and the media (prompted by being sent some form of announcement)makes NEWS of it.
Fortunately, most people view this type of media garbage as just what it is- 'filling-in air time', particularly on the 'free to air' TV medium.
Perhaps that's why there is an an ever increasing number of homes with a satellite dish on top.

Any journos out there want to take note?

Gadfly

Not only bites their heads off, but shits down their necks for good measure.

From the pictures on the wires, there were only two protesters. And they look exactly as you would expect.

I can imagine what they said to each other after they were dragged out of the room:

"Ah, nothing like a few doses of bovine tranquilizer, some finger painting, a little licking of unwashed genitalia, and then a scream at the ESTABLISHMENT. Makes the Sixties just flood back, eh Moonchild Sunflower?"

Yeah! I couldn't resist going to the cobwebby cupboard in the spare room, opening the very bottom drawer, and getting out the black beret with the Che button, the terra cotta chillum and the Little Red Book. Brought a lump to the throat.

Read back 5 postings.
ARE THERE NO JOURNO's OUT THERE prepared to defend their profession ?

Hey, I guessed chicken! Do I get a no prize?

Hopefully he acted a little better than the Democrats did during the recent debate in which protestors interrupeted several times

Carol Mosley Braun asked "do they do this to Republicans"? (duh!)

My dear Ms. Braun, indeed they do.

Rumsfeld should have replied, "Not enough. Not nearly enough."

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It's truly a shame that these brave Birkenstockers didn't decorate the banner with their own blood. They would have gained one more convert...

/sarcasm

I saw that press conference live on CNN. The protestors were young, college age. They probably learned that chant from an old hippie teacher. With all those actors, artists and writers on the left wing, you'd think they could come up with some fresh material. After the shouters were hauled away (to the torture chamber and then the secret midnight execution) Rumsfeld just said "Well!" and went on with the serious questions.

Anti-war protesters taste like chicken, too.

I blame Bush.

No, wait, I blame Isreal.

No, wait, I blame ooooiiiilll (and Haliburton).

Wait, no, I blame...I blame...Arrrggghhhh!! Must...blame...someone...!!!!!!!