Outside the Pepsi Center, life continues
- The Denver Post has its blogger Claire Martin on the scene, reporting the brave struggle of the citizens of the city of Golden against Al-Jazeera, the foreign cable network that is trying to depict their home as a pleasant American town. Martin counts “about eighteen” protesters outside the Buffalo Rose bar where the Jazeerans are set up, and quotes one of the mouth-breathing Jazeera-opposers as saying “I get my research from life experience”. We don’t doubt it, buddy. Golden mayor Josh Stevens is there and offers some conciliatory comments, saying that he’s “learned a lot about Al-Jazeera” in the past week. To cap it off, Claire offers an interview with Josh Rushing of “Control Room” fame and now of Al-Jazeera.
- The Iraq Veterans Against the War march — the same as the Anger At the Gadget protest, or a different one? — went off rather well, or at least not disastrously. The Los Angeles Times includes a police estimate of 4,000 marchers in its brief report. The vets’ demand was to deliver a letter to the Convention or otherwise communicate their grievances; eventually representatives of the Obama campaign defused the situation by the simple expedient of listening to them.
- NewsHour has a substantial web presence, of which I (and I suspect most others) are totally ignorant. It’s slick and well-done, and they came around last night hyping a scoop: New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is leaving the Convention to head back to his city, which is in the sights of another hurricane.
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