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October 24, 2005

Malkin and LGF Describe Quaker Peace Vigil As Ghoulish Party

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Posted by Marty Schwimmer

The American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization, is planning vigils to protest the Iraq War, to coincide with the 2000th death of American servicemen in Iraq.

The popular blog Little Green Footballs linked to the page under the title "Ghouls Plan 2000 Death Parties.' Comments in the thread echoed the thought that such parties were depraved.

Michell Malkin, popular blogger and Fox News commentator, linked to the LGF item (but not the AFSC post) under the heading 'Ghouls of the Left' and said that an unidentified 'they' were 'partying over the deaths.' Several readers posted comments uncritically accepting the notion that these were 'parties.'

Several blogs noted the posts and posted that LGF and Malkin were mischaracterizing anti-war vigils by a Quaker organization as ghoulish parties.

LGF responded by posting that 'they don't like it when their sick plans are exposed.' It also stated that AFSC, winner of the 1948 Nobel Peace prize, was a 'phony' pacifist organization.

Malkin linked to LGF's response and stated 'yup.'


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1. klevenstein on October 24, 2005 11:10 AM writes...

Interesting choice of words, 'they don't like it when their sick plans are exposed.'

These days, this statement more likely brings to mind Bush's sick plans to invade Iraq.

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2. Ross Peterson on October 28, 2005 7:16 AM writes...

Well Marty Schwimmer, what do you think about it. You seem a bit bland in just giving us the report.

My take is that the Quaker activists are throwing a harmlous, almost spiritual ghoulishness back in the Pentagon's face as a symbolic protest. For them, this is escalation of the protest.

I support making the connections that raise the profile of discontent with U.S. foreign policy -- and this image-making are ghouls or goulash is grand.

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