Saturday, May 28th 2005
Berkeley Blogger Blogs Rice
Theodore Hasse, a fellow Berkeley Blogger, has a detailed writeup of Condoleezza Rice’s speech in San Francisco on Friday. It’s worth reading for anyone interested in current events and foreign affairs. And since he was in attendance, you can be sure that it’s filled with more details and a better perspective than the mainstream media coverage. Here’s an bit:
It was also about at this point two people in the audience cloaked in black with pointed hoods stood on their chairs performing the “Abu Ghraib” pose. Rice continued speaking as a few audience members shouted for them to “sit down” and a rank of police officers filed down the aisle toward the protesters. The protesters did not resist their removal by police, though they began chanting as soon as police made physical contact with them:
“Stop the war! Stop the killing! U.S. out of Iraq!”
Several audience members clapped when the protesters began chanting. As the first two were being led out a similar disturbance occurred on the other side of the hall, none of the protesters deviated from the scripted slogan:
“Stop the war! Stop the killing! U.S. out of Iraq!”
Moments after the second disturbance began the audience spontaneously gave a standing ovation to Rice until the protesters were removed, apparently to drown out their slogan. Protesters could be heard shouting the slogan intermittently throughout the speech in the lobby outside of the auditorium.
As bloggers embrace their roles as citizen journalists, it’s great to see that we no longer have to view the world through the eyes of the mainstream media.
