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FEB
19
2004

NYT Discovers Street Theater, Satire

Scenes from a GOP protest in Gotham:

    At one point, as hundreds of guests with invitations waited to pass through velvet barriers to enter the club, a small group of men in bowler hats and women in gowns marched up, chanting, "Four more wars" and "Re-elect Rove."

    As the group approached, a man who appeared to be a security agent of some type, was overheard whispering into a microphone: "We've got two groups. One for and one against."

    Actually, it was two against. The person was confused by a group that calls itself Billionaires for Bush, a collection of activists who use satire to make a political point. Indeed, members of the Sierra Club, who were protesting on the other side of the street were also confused and began shouting at what they thought was a pro-Bush contingent.

    "We want the truth and we want it now!" the Sierra protesters shouted.

    The billionaires shouted back, "Buy your own president!"

Now in Previews, Political Theater in the Street [NYT]

 
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