Communists for Kerry posts some video footage of Sunday's Long March. Required viewing for re-education of Running Dog Capitalist Imperialist Deviationists - this means you.

Speaking of propaganda, was TV coverage of the protests sanitized?

Having seen the protesters parade by his hotel on Sunday, [University of Virginia professor Larry] Sabato saw a decidedly dissimilar version of events than what he saw on television later that night.

"I saw a very different protest. I saw lots of obscenities, not just on the banners but also hurled at almost anybody who looked like they might have been a delegate or anybody connected to the Republican convention," Sabato said.

Then he turned on the TV.

"I watched the coverage. They did something called mainstreaming. They were very careful to pick out a couple of Iraq War veterans, a little old lady had who attended her first convention and a married couple. A middle-class married couple who had very moderate things to say. Now that may have been 10 or 20 percent of the protesters but I can guarantee you, having watched a good part of this demonstration, that was not representative of the demonstrations."

More evidence.
Protestors march on Fox News HQ. Because no deviation from the mass media party line can be allowed.
The Dragon Master.
Tim Blair: They used bicycles for Evil.

Allah has lots of updates, which led me to a wonderful rant from Michele on the utter irrationality of most of the protests.

In spite of my or Roger's angst about putting social conservatives in power, if one refuses to delude oneself about Kerry's character or cluefulness, this is what it comes down to:

Silver is not a conservative. Until recently, he considered himself a Democrat. He attended the Democratic conventions in 1992 and 2000. He's never voted for a Republican presidential candidate. He's pro-choice on abortion, he's pro-gay marriage, he favors stepped-up stem cell research by the federal government, and he prefers a single-payer health care system like Canada's.

There's another Ron Silver, though, the hawk in dove's clothing. On national security, he was a Reaganite in the 1980s, backing missile defense, the deployment of Pershing missiles in Europe, and the anti-Communist contras in Nicaragua. Silver was, in the vernacular of that time, a Cold War liberal. "I was fairly consistent on this," he says. "We were involved in an ideological battle." It was by following the logic of his hard-line position that he now finds himself, two decades later, on Bush's side in the struggle against radical Islam.

And:

The late Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson used to say, "I'm a liberal but not a damn fool." On domestic policy, he was indeed a liberal: a lifelong Democrat who enthusiastically backed the New Deal-Fair Deal economic agenda of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. But in foreign affairs, Jackson was, as one journalist put it in 1972, "the hawkiest hawk" around. This made him the quintessential Cold War liberal.

Monday morning, at the opening session of the GOP convention, Republican delegates met a contemporary Scoop Jackson Democrat: former New York City mayor Ed Koch. . . . "I've never voted for a Republican president before," Koch told CNN shortly after his introductory remarks. "But I am voting to re-elect George W. Bush because I believe that the Democratic party, regrettably, doesn't have the stomach to take on international terrorism. And George Bush has demonstrated he does."

Roger on Ah-nuld and the Bush Twins. I agree on the Bush girls, but I laughed at the line about how they "had a hamster too, but . . . ours didn't make it."
Only Arnold could make Richard Nixon sound good. And - like Guiliani - he stands up for an easy-going immigrant-welcoming urban social liberal kind of Republicanism and makes the conservatives like it.

UPDATE: Gerard van der Leun is back, and he's defending the Twins! Karen Hughes wrote their script. As if she would have the slightest idea what would resonate with 21 year olds.

Lileks: "Holy Crow, he�s just endorsed DICK FRICKIN� NIXON. Only Arnie can go to China."

Next installment here.

UPDATE: I couldn't find a video of Rebbetzin Jungreis' benediction, but here's the text.