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Freeway Blogger Goes Nationwide - Final Push Against Bush
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 FreewayBlogger has posted the Web equivalent of Howard Beale's network rant, I want you to get up right now and go the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
He's recruiting footsoldiers in the swing states with a final pre-election plea for people to post anti-Bush banners across America.
FWB's already getting help 155 cities and 40 states, according to his site, with banners bitter, witty and mad:
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Dear Readers, Things are starting to take off now: amid torrents of mail we're getting a steady trickle of pictures. This is good, of course, but we've Got to do Better. So far this site has been mostly about my putting up signs... if we're going to take this country back, it needs to be about Your putting up signs.
Much of the mail and commentary I get revolves around swing states and how I should start blogging them. This is true, but let's face it: I can't do this whole thing on my own. I'm going to need your help.
Here's My Offer: I'll match every sign you put up in your state with three of my own. If Arizona sends me pictures of 25 signs, I'll go there and put up 75. Same for you New Mexico. You too Colorado. This offer valid for hand-painted signs only.
Photos of roadside invective from more than a dozen states pack the FreewayBlogger Visitors Gallery.
Albuquerque's in the house, with a full-color banner hung from what looks like a Ramada: "Not Fooled, Not Scared - (raised fist) Vote for Kerry." And Boulder weighed in with "SAVE OUR PLANET - VOTE - PLANT A BUSH IN TEXAS."
Baltimore tossed up a debate-night shout-out: "Tonite Bush Will Smirk, Swagger and Lie."
And L.A. offers a home-grown harrumph with "A VOTE FOR BUSH SHAMES OUR WAR DEAD."
He's getting coverage from around the world - including Le Monde (now now, no snickering about France) and a piece upcoming in Der Stern.
A recent MTV Online piece posted at FWB's site (but oddly hard to Google at MTV) partially unmasks the previously anonymous blogger as "Patrick, a self-employed father of two."
A few weeks ago, when U.S. casualties in the Iraq War (II) topped 1,000, FWB took a stab at hoisting 100 signs in one night but apparently stopped, exhausted, at 83. It also seems he hasn't been busted yet for the quasi-illegal protests: On his night of 100 signs, the Freeway Blogger's truck was stopped at 3:30 a.m. by two Highway Patrol officers, who saw his cab filled with un-hung work. "I said, 'Oh, I was just going to put a sign on the back of this freeway overpass here.' They couldn't help it — they just cracked up. It's the middle of the night and here's this anti-war protester and two CHP guys. But I'm not hurting anything, I'm just trying to get a message out, so whether they agreed or not, they didn't question it and let me go. They were glad that I wasn't crazy." If you want to join him, here are explicit instructions and his email address.
You can also click the little envelope icon on this post to mail it to friends in the battleground states.
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| Posted by: mack_reed on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 09:59 PM
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