Hat Tip to the Salt Lake Tribune: "Peace" Protests Fizzle

Maybe they like just conservatives out there in Utah. Whatever the case, though, it's getting increasingly irritating to this blogger, who lives here in Washington, DC, that us political junkies here are denied access to a lot of really meaningful news.

No such problem, apparently, in Salt Lake City, which runs an informative study on the utter failure of this weekend's essentially anti-Bush protests across the nation. Since they failed, the MSM didn't bother to tell you much, if anything about them. But the truth-tellers at the Salt Lake Tribune ponied up with the good news (The paper actually cites one of their reporters, the AP, and the NYTimes as sources, but we never saw anything like this in the print media. Maybe it was wire only.):

By the time the war protesters began their march Saturday morning in Salt Lake City, only about 50 people had gathered. Their numbers had swelled to about 200 by noon - and that was with a little high-tech help from a marcher who text-messaged friends to join him.

The protesters, according to the article, were "organized" by the "People for Peace and Justice of Utah." There's your first clue as to where these patriots are coming from. It's a lead-pipe cinch that anytime you see the word "Peace" in an organization, or at least 98% of the time, it's being funded by some kind of Marxist cell.

More encouraging, turnout was pitiful in non-Navy blue NYC:

In Times Square, about 1,000 anti-war protesters rallied outside a military recruiting station, demanding that troops be withdrawn from Iraq.

The always reliable Euro-Commies did a bit better, but probably didn't invite anyone from the Guinness Book of World Records to attend:

Police in London said 15,000 people joined a march from Parliament and Big Ben to a rally in Trafalgar Square. The anniversary last year attracted 45,000 protesters in the city.

But the Muslims in Turkey can do better, right? Right?

In Turkey, where opposition to the war cuts across all political stripes, about 3,000 protesters gathered in Istanbul, police said. ''Murderer USA,'' read a sign in Taksim Square.

Touching, no? But best of all was the truly impressive turn out in the Socialist People's Republic of the Left Bank:

One of the biggest protests was in San Francisco, for decades a hub of anti-war sentiment. Police there estimated the crowd gathered outside City Hall at about 6,000 people. Many chanted slogans opposing Bush, and most appeared to hail from a distinctly grayer demographic than that of other protest events.

Yep, there's the key, a grayer demographic. Marxist Boomer dead-enders trying to relive the Glorious Revolution of 1968. But today's kids apparently see it differently:

There are not enough young people here,'' said Paul Perchonock, 61, a physician. ''They don't see themselves as having a stake.''

Awwww. Glad Paul isn't my physician. Maybe he should heal himself of a lifetime of prejudices. The "young people" have a stake, all right. A stake in not getting beheaded or wearing burqas. But Paul doesn't have a clue. It's all about Bush, obviously, which is what all this "anti-war" stuff is all about anyway. If the U.S. should actually succeed in this and related endeavors, there won't be anymore fact time for the usual treasonistas.

But it gets even better:

In Washington, a relatively small crowd of about 300 gathered at the Naval Observatory, where Vice President Dick Cheney lives, and marched to Dupont Circle. Debbie Boch, 52, a restaurant manager from Denver, said she and two friends bought plane tickets to Washington two months ago, before the demonstration had been planned. It was the fifth protest march she had attended since the war began, she said, and among the smallest.

''It's very disappointing, especially in Washington, D.C.,'' she said. ''You think this is the place where people come to make things happen. I'm just not sure why there aren't more people here today.''

Do we hear a violin out there playing "Hearts and Flowers" anyone? People ARE making things happen, Deb. You just don't have a clue.

Back in Salt Lake City, Amerikkka's intellectual elite tried to educate the public and get them out of their collective cocoon of abysmal ignorance:

Throughout the morning, a group of eight women dressed in pink-and-black outfits occasionally broke out in chants. "Resist, resist, raise up your fist," shouted Raphael Cordray of Salt Lake, one of the "Pom Poms Not Bomb Bombs" cheerleaders. "Show 'em that you're pissed. Resist, resist, fight the capitalists."

Of course, the last two sentences say it all. Use a vulgarity to show how intelligent you are. And then let everyone know that you're Marxists. Gee, the Old Left used to try at least to conceal their proclivities from the Feds. These moonbats don't even have enough polish to lie about their real affiliation.

Meanwhile, the clueless MSM continues to spin the news. Check our next story.