An estimated 20,000 anti-Bush demonstrators, 30,000 pro-Bush Christian demonstrators, mass prayer vigils, masked avengers, mad cows, riot police and water cannons… Bush gets a decidedly mixed, but certainly active, welcome. Hey, at least Korea’s not boring!
Nice video summary from the BBC.
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This is what really gets to me. The ultra-liberal fuckwads actually make Bush look good in a strange way. I dont know who I hate more…the ultra-liberals or the neo-cons. Equally despicable.
Man… No matter how many times I see news like this, I’m always at a loss for words…
“30,000 Christian pro Bush demonstrators”
That brought a smile to my face. Good for them.
Most of these ‘protesters’ were probably bored kids who saw it as and opportunity to get the adrenaline going before going out drinking with their friends. Like it or not, that’s what has become of democracy.
Was V for Vendetta there? In university, I joked about getting an Imperial Stormtrooper costume (or a Gandalf costume) and going to EVERY movie premiere dressed up. Now I want to do something similar for Korean protests.
Do we have pictures of the protests yet?
Yep. Click the two links I provide. Both will give you some images.
Who is the guy at 2:12 on the BBC video, he looks like he is at every protest.
Is this a conservative blog? Just wondering, cuz seems like very little sympathy for the anti-Bush protests.
As for me, FUCK BUSH.
Korea never had the Grateful Dead and I suppose these idiots feel they need something else to follow around.
Two of my favorite bits come one after another on the bbc video. From 2:11-2:15
First, comes the largest mass English lesson I’ve ever seen in Korea, where hundreds of “students” from all ages un-enthusiastically mass pronounce the word out.
Immediately following this scene, there is what appears to be a symbolic passion play, where Bush and LMB are driven to their knees and out of Korea by sign waving protesters.
On its own, this is hilarious, but if you pause and look closely, you will see that the giant Bush mask is paper mache’, and actually looks rather well done.
“Korea never had the Grateful Dead and I suppose these idiots feel they need something else to follow around.”
They’re the ungrateful living.
I’m sorry, but I can’t take anyone seriously who cannot correctly pronounce the name of a person they are gathering against.
What is so f’ing difficult about saying the name “Bush”???? Why must it be “Booshiiiiiii”??? (and don’t anyone try to explain the whole hangul spelling system and its inability to accommodate end consonants — that’s a load).
Just 28 percent in the new Post-ABC poll approve of the way the president is handling his job.
Unpopular at home and abroad.
‘Hey, at least Korea’s not boring!
It certainly isn’t.
Thanks once again to the Korean people for letting Americans know what a bunch of low-life back stabbers you are.
You never let me down.
Kujo,
The same poll numbers show an 18% approval rate for Congress (http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/client/act_dsp_pdf.cfm?name=mr080715-1topline.pdf&id=4008). So, the president’s 155% more popular than Congress.
Someone commented that if there wasn’t 100,000 protesters at the anti-bush rally this is over. It appears it is over.
Furthermore 30,000 to a pro-bush rally. Unheard of surely. And it puts into perspective the madcow/us/LMB protests. Yes they were stupid and repetitive, but it is easy to get a large group of people together for anything in Korea. I wonder how many pro-bush supporters you could get together in the US?
“Korea never had the Grateful Dead and I suppose these idiots feel they need something else to follow around.”
“They’re the ungrateful living.”
Classic!!!
#8,
Yes, I concur, fuck Bush…But you’d understand my lack of sympathy for the protesters if you had to deal with teenagers every day like I did.
I’m sure he’ll take your commentary under advisement. Make a note of it. Put it on the agenda, if you will.
It’s this kind of constructive exchange of opposing viewpoints that really makes democracy work. I salute you.
#20,
Either way, Bush will be gone soon enough. Unlike Roh Moo Hyun, he won’t be able to shred all his records.
Did a short write-up here: (http://smokehard.com/2008/anti-us-protest-and-the-pseudo-media/)
I’ll have more pictures up later tonight I hope.
Conservatives have a pathological inability to admit that the Bush is a loser. It must be a required characteristic because they all share it.
@8/19
Do your opinions of Bush come from personal experience, like her:
http://thepeoplescube.com/red/.....1841#31794
and
http://thepeoplescube.com/red/.....1841#32005
I do have many issues with Bush, but they are better articulated than f- Bush.
@23 Kujo
I’m a conservative. Bush is a loser. Hmmm… I guess you were wrong.
Same left, different flavor:
http://www.zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/
Kinda makes the Korean lemmings look tame, doesn’t it?
#26,
Not much freakier than some conservatives.
http://video.google.com/videos.....mp;tab=wv#
@27
The “Jesus Camp” people are better described as a radical evangelical minority rather than conservatives, but are they really as freaky as the leftists shown at zombie time?
(I didn’t mean to equate the typical social liberal on the left with leftists like hardcore socialists and communists depicted in the ZT pics.)
There was a funny editorial in the Chosun Ilbo on Bushiee and the Korean left:
http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....60006.html
And then there was this story about the f*ckwad protesters: “Teaching Children to Hate”
http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....60020.html
It’s true, never a dull moment in Korea, but more than enough stupidity. The protesters are so desperate now they coerce children to write insults against the president. Stay classy, Korean “liberals”!
Lunatics on the left, right and all points in between are equally deranged.
the pictures I snapped at the protests last night can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokehard/
I like this blog entry:
Bush Gets Tremendous Crowds in S. Korea, US Media Ignores Story
It has another nice video clip, especially of the pro-U.S. rally.
My favorate pic…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smokehard/2738656908/
If only that ajossi had some idea what those words connotate in the U.S.
I wish we had the comment rating system like slashdot