Bill Sammon examines the non-existent coverage of an ugly protest of a 2002 Bush event. Violence, threats to the President, attacks on Police and the motorcade were largely ignored by the press. Meanwhile, every anti-Obama sentiment is reported on as “ugly conservatives” or an “angry mob” by the leftist media.
When Bush visited Portland, Ore., for a fundraiser, protesters stalked his motorcade, assailed his limousine and stoned a car containing his advisers. Chanting “Bush is a terrorist!”, the demonstrators bullied passers-by, including gay softball players and a wheelchair-bound grandfather with multiple sclerosis.
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Protesters slashed the tires of several state patrol cruisers and leapt onto an occupied police car, slamming the hood and blocking the windshield with placards. A female police officer was knocked to the street by advancing protesters, badly injuring her wrist.
The angry protest grew so violent that the Secret Service was forced to take the highly unusual step of using a backup route for Bush’s motorcade because the primary route had been compromised by protesters, one of whom pounded his fist on the president’s moving limousine.
Read Sammon’s first hand account of what was, and the coverage the didn’t exist.
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