Alterman gets a little whiny about the treatment our librul media affords to different protests:
One aspect of the press coverage that always bothered me, along with every other aspect of the press coverage, was the treatment of the protesters. It was never possible to determine how many there were at any given moment, though it looked to me like just a few dozen; fewer than were meeting the other night to try to stop an apartment building from going up where Gristedes used to be on 99th and Broadway. Anyway, remember the February demonstrations against the American war on Iraq in 2003. They were the largest worldwide demonstrations in human history; millions of people and the television coverage either ignored them or mocked them, offering Americans little or no understanding of why we are now so hated all over the world for the Bush administration’s actions. My guess, and I don’t know how you’d prove it, is that on a per-demonstrator basis, each of those people received approximately a zillionth the amount of coverage—and respect—that the Terri Schiavo demonstrators received. This is media bias at its most naked, and believe me, it ain’t liberal.
But Eric, the Schiavo protestors were CHRISTIANS. I mean, jeez. Except for this guy, obviously:
