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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Disingenuous headlines

The intentionally deceptive AP.
Tens of Thousands March in Dallas

DALLAS — Tens of thousands of people banged drums, waved U.S. flags and marched in a protest today urging federal lawmakers to pass immigration reform that would legalize an estimated 11 million undocumented workers.....

Then further down in the article,
Police estimated the crowd at 350,000 to 500,000. There were no reports of violence.

So the headline is tens of thousands when the reality is hundreds of thousands. If this isn't intentionally deceptive..... What is this reporter trying to pull?

The WaPo picked it up. It's their version of what happened.

By the way, down at the bottom is this nugget.

Different organizers have different agendas, but they do agree on the need to convert energy from protests into massive voter registration drives.

Voter registration and citizenship education initiatives are set to begin in several states after a "Day Without An Immigrant" campaign planned for May 1, an event that asks immigrants nationwide to stay home from work and school, and refrain from buying U.S. products.

"Marches will only get you so far," said Armando Navarro, coordinator of the National Alliance for Human Rights, a network of Hispanic activist groups in Southern California. "There has to be an electoral component to get the Republicans out of the majority."

2 Comments:

  • if we're talking about Voter registration drives then we're not talking about undocumented immigrants, are we?

    As for Monday, May 1, I encourage everyone to participate. It's time to show some solidarity among working people.

    By Blogger Justin, at 4:59 AM  

  • Well, even if it's not everyone who can register, the ones who will are more likely to be the kids and 20's who were born here. We're looking at an anti-Republican constituency for 50 years.

    Young people who will man the phones, and go door to door. I wouldn't be surprised if this group doesn't play a significant part in upcoming elections.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:27 AM  

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