The lack of reporting on the number of protesters and the tone of the New Republic headline suggest bias against the anti-war movement and the content of articles or commentaries reveals an open and strong animosity towards the movement.

The following articles, the first reporting on the September 29th protest and the second and third on the April 20th protest, openly attack and insult the anti-war protesters.
Michael Kelly portrays anti-war protesters as having no guiding purpose, instead as simply an outlet for “unhappy people”.

TownHall.com, “Pacifists: part II”, Michael Kelly

“It had been intended as just another in the series of protests against globalism that have been serving as a sort of kvetch basin for all sorts of unhappy people who like to yell about the awfulness of “Amerika” or international corporations or rich people or people who drive large cars or drug companies that test their products on bunny rabbits or life its own unfair self.”

October 3, 2001

Fox News portrays the protesters in a similar manner, depicting them as ignorant and reducing them to being simply “anti-Western” or “anti-American”.

Fox News, “Protesters Come to Washington”, Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

“Joining a hodgepodge of interest groups – including those representing anti-globalization and Palestinian solidarity – a coalition of anti-war groups plan to converge on Washington in a show of activist angst this weekend.”

“But some expect the protests to be more about anti-Americanism than whether Mexican workers are getting a fair shake from corporate employers.”

April 20, 2002

The New Republic Online, “Protesting Too Much”, Sarah Wildman

“It seems anti-globalization activists have now folded Palestinian solidarity into the hodgepodge of causes they call their own. The result has been as incoherent as it sounds, with ignorance undermining any legitimate grievances.”

“But it quickly became apparent that the Mideast was not the only thing on these people’s minds. For many, it was just another cause to squeeze into their anti-Western protest rubric.”

April 23, 2002

The conservative press explicitly delegitimized protest by accusing those exercised democratic forms of dissent and free assembly of “anti-Americanism”. In an attempt to make protesters seem irrational, conservative attacks on social movements frequently label protesters as “emotional”. Notice the word choices: “kvetch basin”, “unhappy people”, “activist angst”, “incoherent”.