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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (582)	4/1/2003 3:16:12 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 7832

From the Media Notes column in today's Post: Finally, blogger Chris Mooney finds the antiwar movement floundering: "This Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll contains a pretty striking finding. When asked, 'Do you have a generally favorable or unfavorable opinion of anti-war protestors?', Americans responded as follows: 23% favorable, 63% unfavorable, and 14% not sure. This is even worse than I thought it would be. "Now, it seems to me that if you're an anti-war protester, and you see numbers like this, you have to ask yourself: Is shutting down traffic in the middle of New York City really doing any good? Is the cause of world peace furthered by what I'm doing? Or am I just strengthening and confirming the belligerent views of the rest of the country? "I'm not saying you shouldn't protest when there's a war on: I myself would have hit the streets at some point to protest Vietnam. But I also think a strong case can be made that the current protesters aren't doing a lot of good right now – that, in fact, they're hurting the liberal cause." Wonder why those numbers haven't gotten more attention.