Hey, what happened to "Fugheddaboutit!"

Maybe I missed it. Wasn't there supposed to be a "civil" protest as millions of Americans across the country leaned out their windows and yelled "Fugheddaboutit!" when Georg Bush spoke from the podium during the Republican convention?

I don't know what made me think about it now - weeks later, but it struck me today that I never heard anything that night. I expected Greenville to erupt with a window rattling "Fugheddaboutit!" So, I did a quick search to find out if there was any damage in the country due to the anticipated sonic waves. Hmmmm, I found LOADS of articles about the planned protest. Problem is, I can't find any after the event... Ah, here is one.

"On a midtown residential block shortly after ten o’clock last Thursday night, as the President appeared onstage at Madison Square Garden, a series of dissonant voices joined the familiar chorus of passing car stereos and sirens. 'Fugheddaboutit!' the voices yelled from a few third- and fourth-story windows. The loudmouths were heeding the instructions of the liberal radio host Al Franken, who’d called for a 'Great American Shout-Out,' timed to the President’s speech, to protest the Republican proceedings. In the context of a week’s worth of orchestrated civil disobedience and disruption, the scattered hollering was harmless, even a little silly."

New Yorker: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

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I'm still looking... the silence of any coverage on this great protest is deafening!