Check out this story, pictures and YouTube video.
The third paragraph was troubling:
"The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of women talking over coffee. It’s probably an impressive list. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets. One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host. Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally “a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots”, and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought. The women, of course, received many nasty, harassing and threatening messages.
How totally irresponsible and unethical of Eddie Burke to do that. I'm glad the women didn't let the hatemongers scare them off.
I just found some YouTube videos....
First, this one is why I'm an Illinois Woman who rejects Palin:
"Sarah Palin and Animals":
Here are some from the rally.
The first one is the news segment on the harassment and threats that the organizers received:
Here's an article from the "Anchorage Daily News":
"Anti-Palin activists stage their own rally"
More from Daily Kos
A collection of photos
How it started
Women Against Palin's web site
I'm sure there's plenty more on references on Google.
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