An Estimated 200K+ Turn Out For D.C. Rally To Restore Sanity
The spirit of the Rally To Restore Sanity was summed up by what dozens of people described on Twitter: The sighting of a little girl in a princess dress, carrying a sign that said "I'm taking back my tea party."
Yes, the Americans who are sick of the far-right haters turned out by the hundreds of thousands to support sanity in our national discourse:
WASHINGTON —Part circus, part satire, part holiday parade, the crowds that flooded the National Mall for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” on Saturday made it a political event like no other.
It was a Democratic rally without a Democratic politician, featuring instead two political satirists, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert, who used the stage to rib national journalists and fear-mongering politicians, and to fake-fight each other over dueling songs about trains.
Though at no point during the show did either man plug a political candidate, a strong current of political engagement coursed through the enormous crowd, which stretched from the Capitol almost to the Washington Monument, an overwhelming response to a call by Mr. Stewart on his show on the Comedy Central network. The turnout clogged traffic, and filled subways and buses to the point of overflow.
The National Park Service did not offer a crowd estimate. But in an e-mail, one Comedy Central executive joked that the size of the crowd was “30 or 40 million.” And before the event, Mr. Colbert offered his own guess in a Twitter message: “Early estimate of crowd size at rally: 6 billion.”
The event, sponsored by Comedy Central, was viewed by many in the crowd as a counterweight to the Rally to Restore Honor” led by the Fox News host Glenn Beck near the Lincoln Memorial two months ago. Some participants holding anti-Fox and anti-Beck signs staged a protest near a Fox News satellite truck.
For many who came, the rally was an opportunity to take control of the political narrative, if only for one sunny Saturday afternoon. Participants, overwhelmingly liberal, wore political buttons, waved flags and carried signs, often with funny messages.
A cluster of women in their 50s held small white signs that read “Shrinks for sanity.” A man in a fleece jacket held a sign that said, “I can see the real America from my house.”
Others signs were absurdist. Daniel Short, 29, a visual effects artist from New York City, said the message of his sign, taped to a cardboard tube — “Tights are not pants” — was “just another one of those silent majority issues.”
Political protests also came in costume. One man wore only a diaper and a sombrero, and carried a large wooden anchor — a depiction of an “anchor baby,” the name conservative talk show hosts have given to children born in the United States to immigrant parents. “I’m feeling a little exposed,” he said, shortly after the rally finished.
But beyond the goofiness, the rally seemed to be channeling something deep — a craving to be heard and a frustration with the lack of leadership, less by President Obama than by a Democratic Party that many participants described as timid, fearful, and failing to stand up for what they see as the president’s accomplishments.
“I’m proud of Obama, but the Democrats in Congress, they’re just running for cover,” said Ron Harris, a lawyer from Laguna Beach, Calif., who came to celebrate his 64th birthday. “They couldn’t sell bread to a starving mother if God was standing next to them.”
Some in the crowd expressed regret that it was comedians, not politicians, who were able to channel their frustration.
“We don’t have any place to turn,” said Michelle Sabol, 41, a jewelry designer from Pittsburgh. Mr. Stewart, she said, gave voice to her feeling of frustration and isolation.
|It was not only a protest against the far right, also the far left. It was a protest of people who are fed up with the extremes on both sides. Granted, the demo had more people in attendance with a left leaning view but don't pin this as a demo to counter the far right alone.
It seemed more of a reminder that the teabagger and the anarchist have more in common than they might think they do.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
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it is all across the board, baby!
the middle-of-the-road righties, the left-of-center righties, the in-their-own-realm blue dogs, the so-far-right-democrats-they-seem-red, the middle-of-the-road wrongs, the rino's, the dino's, the mofo's, and the creeps on the news-o-tainment networks who control the headlines--basically anyone that overinflates issues and provides inaccurate information just to promote whatever it is they want to market.
This was not a pro-left rally. And I understand some people recognize what they think is Stewart making false equivalencies. Either way, don't claim it for the left, or claim it's anti-right. Not yours.
I was at the rally and I saw several signs saying 'Keep your government out of my (insert)'.
Including a guy dressed like Winnie the Pooh with a sign saying 'Keep your government out of my hunny'. Although I think Pooh had broken into Eeyore's house and gorged himself until he was too fat to leave, I don't think it was a big enough bone of contention not to enjoy the rally.
Of course, more liberals than conservatives were there. But to say that the rally had more of an agenda than to say 'we can make America work as a nation of ideas if theyre not constantly shouted down' is simply wrong.
No it wasn't!
Quit equating liberals - who were marginalized decades ago, with a country run by wingnuts and billionaires, that has been on GOP fascism steroids for decades.
It only makes you look uninformed.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Protest? This wasn't a protest. It was a call for people to vote and actually use some intelligent thought to chose who they vote for.
Waste of time, imo. People at the bottom and middle of the socio-economic ladder have chronically voted against their own interest. Stewart gets an "A+" for effort, though.
No, it was not a call to vote. Stewart very explicitly made this point. "Vote if you want, don't vote if you don't want."
Whoever gave that estimate is a marxist, socialist, communist, leftist, atheist, muslim LIAR!!!
Fox (the most TRUSTED name in news) said there were approximately 14 people at the rally.
But Free Republic showed a photo of the rally with only 7 people.
It could not have been photoshopped because the huge patches of bright green grass empty of any people must be a real untouched photo.
The Freepers said so.
It was a dessert topping and a floor wax!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Shimmer! And the amazing Dan Ackyroid's(sp) moving forehead .
Bassomatic!
The whole point of the rally is missed if one assumes it is ONLY "far-right haters" that folks are SICK AND TIRED OF...betting old BIG EDDIE won't be too happy to have been front and center of the JUMBOTRON highlighting the rabid voices adding to the CHAOS! As silly old Bob Schieffer introduced the event on his show..."tens of thousands of Democrats".....again proving the merits of those overpaid opinionators!
It was mostly a protest of the polarization in "journalism" and the smoldering remains in the wake of the trashing of the Fairness Doctrine. That and the use/abuse of fear-mongering everything to get eyeballs glued to the fT*&*ing tv in the name of a fat stinking bottom line.
That, and to affirm the idea that the vast majority of those who disagree with one's position are not insane.
Skimming the comments on the Fox News site, it is obvious that the extremists that Fox caters to, have no understanding of what the rally was really about, and are somehow in denial that they are the minority in this country. They continue to cling to the premise that 'he who shouts the loudest, is always right.' The insults and divisionary tactics are still rampant with that crew. I guess they just don't get it. It is telling that those who shout the loudest on their discussion boards, are also the ones who proudly claim that they didn't watch the rally.
Stewart has struck a nerve, here. I can only hope that the end result (as opposed to backlash), will be more civilized political discussion moving forward. If everyone on those boards were as intelligent and open-minded as their self-perception, we could actually solve some of the problems, not only with America, but also with the human race. Unfortunately, there is still too much competition to be the squeakiest wheel.
“Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.”
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
when one lives in an alternative universe called Fox News.
Happy Halloween. Before Mrs. JP and I hit the road back to Massachusetts, I just want to share the pictures we took yesterday of the Stewart/Colbert rallies. The signage and the Halloween costumes alone were worth the trip down.
JP
http://giveusthisdayourdailtydread.blogspot.com
the signs were Very creative...and quite amusing. A little levity is a good thing.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
I look at it as an affirmation for the sane, to show them that, though usually silent, that they are still the majority, and that their numbers are truly powerful. Now, speak softly and carry a Bic pen into the voting booth, and fill in the little circles!
Is there anyone more in touch with the American spirit then Jon Stewart?
And if the Tea Party people would close their mouths, open their minds and listen to him speak then they just might see it too.
I know, I know...I ask too much.
Please re-headline this!
"Comedians outdraw Clowns more than 2 to 1!"
I had a great time at the rally yesterday. The crowd was absolutely enormous (far larger than the One Nation rally that I attended), and there was a good, young vibe to the crowd. Most of the special guests were great [Ozzy Osbourne!], but some left you scratching your head [Kid Rock?!]. Stewart and Colbert were definitely the highlights, however, and each skit was memorable. Jon's final speech was a classic and I think it would be silly to dismiss it - as many will - simply because he is a comedian.
This wasn't a "get out the vote" rally, fortunately, but a mere call to a sane, reality-based national discourse.
And, not surprisingly, the punch line of the entire rally was the mainstream media. It wasn't Glenn Beck or Fox News (though they are certainly part of this larger group), but the enormous, all-consuming media apparatus that, to paraphrase Stewart, "sets ants on fire with a magnifying glass and then reports on the global ant fire epidemic."
Minor complaint: it was difficult to see the video screens (there should have been both more and larger video screens), and, even after they raised the volume of the microphones in response to the crowd's chant of "Louder! Louder!", it was still at times difficult to hear the speakers. Those are only minor quibbles, however.
And one last thing; don't allow conservatives to pretend like Stewart's rally was smaller than Beck's because the reflecting pool wasn't filled. That is a canard. The two rallies were in different locations. Beck's was on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial (to the west of the Washington Monument), while Stewart's was near the steps of U.S. Capitol building (to the east of the Washington Monument).
Yeah, I was kind of curious about Kid Rock myself. Oh, well.
About beck, though....I did notice something. Towards the end, when the video on the big screens showed various pundits spewing extremist talk, I did notice that beck was shown more than anyone else (as well he should have been).
After the rally, I went to eat dinner at a nice and unique Mexican place up on 7th Street, Oyame (I tried the grasshopper tacos...real grasshoppers....only comment I'll make is that I liked the other small dishes I ate much better!). I was talking to one of the cooks who said that it took him 3 hours to get to work from Northern Virginia on the Metro...much longer than usual because of all of the passengers. I was supposed to meet a local friend of mine from Maryland; it took her 2 hours to get to the Mall from the Metro in Silver Spring....should have only taken maybe 45 minutes....but there were so many people. I'm glad I left Silver Spring at 07:15 in the morning to get to the Mall by 8:00 or so.
Anyway, that cook at Oyamel's Mexican restaurant told me that his impression was that the number of people at the rally yesterday just "killed" the numbers at beck's rally; he said there is no doubt that there were substantially more people at Jon Stewart's rally than at beck's. That was heart warming to me!
The kind policeman at the subway who was helping guide the out-of-towners said the numbers at the Springfield-Franconia station were similar to Obama's inauguration. I don't think that holds true for the rally attendance as a whole, but it was really really massive, and mostly a fun, friendly group.
And now comes the dick waving from the right where they will claim to have had more people at their rally, as if that were the most important feature of all. Much like they tout the ratings of fox media as proof of....something or other, as if that proves them right.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Well mine is bigger n' yourns...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Dont make any boasts you can't back up ;)
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Magnifying glasses don't count.
What's going on in this country isn't a joke. None of this "both sides need to be reasonable" crap helps. Until we take control of the media away from giant corporations (the right wing) we will lose to the ill informed, low IQ crowd.
He blasted the hell out of the media and literally told people to stop watching cable news. Did you expect him to lead an armed takeover of some broadcast studios or something?
None of this "both sides need to be reasonable" crap helps.
Yeah, totally. What we really need is for everyone who is angry to go buy guns and start shooting each other in the head. Then that will leave all the people who just want to get on with their lives to live in peace. Yes! Hallelujah! That's the ticket!!!
*eyeroll*
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
... don't have IQs low enough to allow someone else to shape policy on their behalf because they failed to get out and vote.
They're definitely smart enough to vote.
Way more people than I expected, not enough speakers and jumbo-trons. We mostly had a good time, with decent people and funny signs, but in the end I couldn't get what it was really all about. The end message seems to say:
The system is broken and corrupt and flooded with money.
The media makes it all worse.
Everything is basically okay and reasonable people will work it all out like they always do - through the existing broken, corrupt, money flooded system.
???
Yeah, that's basically what the message was. Jon's been saying it for weeks now. How is this a surprise?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Just wondering aloud what the overarching idea really was? Maybe it was just be a huge live show, and that's fine. What I did was encapsulate what I got from it, from the speechifying, and it's seems confusing.
Great pictures of the rally , some really terrific signs . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
are hlarious. I love the little kid in the pumpking costume with this pinned to his shirt. "Fear Me."
I was there yesterday.....great fun, great signs!
I missed getting a picture of one sign I really liked. It said "Christine O'Donnell turned me into a Newt. Then I got better!"
When people will even consider voting for a Sharon Angle, Rand Paul, the former witch, or Joe Miller, much less actually doing it, that just isn't going to happen. As long as you are white and have an "R" by your name, you are going to get the vote. FOX will spin this, edit clips, and make it look like some hippie-homo baby killing liberal anti-America fest. And people will believe it, just like those emails some of your friends, coworkers, or family send you and then you politely send them the SNOPES link revealing it is a hoax. Obama is not removing the word "God" from currency. Your cell phone number is not going on a public call list. Except with FOX there is no voice of reason. The next show "confirms" the others. Think for yourself? If deciding on bacon or sausage with a Grand Slam, sure.
I love Jon (Colbert, while often brilliant just gets on my nerves sometimes) but let's be honest, he is preaching to the choir here. As someone else said, A+ for effort and content - but the people this needs to reach don't even believe in science. That is a mind you cannot do anything with.
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVygqjyS4CA
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I don't think Fox , Beck and the rest were happy campers yesterday , I know the hate and fear lovers weren't , they were going out of their minds ! The biggest difference between Ed and Beck ( Fox ) is that Ed tells the truth and doesn't make crap up , he doesn't have to , no one can rightfully say he promotes hate or violence , he does not .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
indoor voice. (which is probably pretty loud anyway).
I watched Arianna on This Week say the message of the rally isn't that partisanship is bad, it's that you can disagree with someone without saying he's your enemy. I'm an athiest, with two gay Wiccan sisters. There are a lot of Americans these days who at a minimum would make us leave this country (or incarcerate us), at a maximum would like to see us dead. They tend to be the ones with the guns. It's hard, maybe irresponsible, not to see them as enemies of our well being.
For a second there I thought you said incinerate us...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
In other words, tolerance of those who are different than you.
The only way to be.
Where was this call for "sanity" and "moderation" during the Bush years? I guess starting an illegal war based on lies that cost so many lives and executive authority overreaching wasn't extreme but apparently protesting it was.
Wworld wide, but the MSM never showed it, and on the rare occasions when they did it was a small 5 second clip of a tight shot only showing a few dozen protesters. Also, Dictator Bush had "Free Speech Zones" (cages for protesters) set up a mile away from wherever he was. Bush was a gutless pussy.
Who asked you?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
YOU did :)
We needed another FDR, instead we got another clinton.
false equivalences .... /sigh
Jon can be just as hypocritical and sanctimonious as those he skewer. Remember ACORN?
one of the few times I was disappointed in how he covered something.
We needed another FDR, instead we got another clinton.
It is cool to be liberal. It's cool to care. Hippies are back. It's cool to carry cool signs and wear diapers and sombreros and carry anchors for the message. No politician could to that. The art community has to take control. YAHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Jeanne
CBS is saying there were 215,000+ at the Rally to Restore Sanity. They pegged the Beck Klan Rally at 87,000 (give or take 9K due to all the motorized wheelchairs taking up extra space).
So, OF COURSE the AP is printing that "the crowd seemed to match that of Glen Beck's rally".
By using teabagger math I estimate that there were AT LEAST 7 to 8 billion people for the Stewart rally (give or take a few hundred people who were probably at the port-a-potty).).
And the ganga line mon...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
... through the crowd, that looked like a large crowd.
comparing the total mass of human flesh present the Beck rally wins. Simple.
It's amazing that the percentage of white people there seemed to be about 90%. There were more Asians there than black people.
I was there yesterday, and, yes, my experience was that there were a lot of white people there. I did see some African Americans.....more than I've seen at beck's rallies. I also saw a number of Asian people, as you mentioned.....but don't know if there were more Asians than black people in attendance.
I also saw a number of Muslims. "Father Guido Sarducci" did a survey of the crowd to see the makeup of people of different faiths in the crowd. He rattled a number of religions off, asking for a response as to who belonged to groups such as Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, etc. Catholics seemed to get the loudest response; but there also was a noticeable response from Muslims.
I wonder how many Muslims have been at beck's rallies?
I think that Jon Stewart and crew raised this question about Muslims a number of times. I think it really bothers him that the right attacks all Muslims because of 9-11. So it was good that he brought this point up over and over....even pointed out the fact that Kareem Abdul Jabaar is a Muslim when he was introduced to the crowd, as he did when Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) came out to play.
Smoking what, I'm not sure...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-200212...
Beck, what a piker!!
I remember reading here about the fact that there were some signs at tea party rallies that lead people to say the tea party is a racist group. The argument that was made by most was that there will always be crazy people with crazy signs but for the most part the tea party peolple don't feel that way. So now that there were the same sort of things at John Stewart's rally; I am willing to not paint the entire rally as racist, maybe you guys might re-think it when regarding the tea party!!
http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/444...
By putting Hitler moustaches on that stupid woman from Wasilly and other wingnut head cases is MAKING FUN of you baggers. Are you a-scared of Hitler Sarah?
Oh, and ONE sign is all you got? It was probably a plant by some Neo-Nazi (read: GOP) head stomper. Was O'Keefe around to take that picture? You baggers are pathetic.
I was going to say the same thing. Those pictures of Palin, Cantor, and others with Hitler mustaches are satire of the teabaggers doing the same in seriousness about Obama.
And, that's only one picture. You saw many, many pictures at teabag rallies of signs comparing Obama to Hitler (and beck continues doing this comparison on his programs).
Lastly, there were many signs at yesterday's rallies that said something to the effect that "I disagree with you, but I am sure you are not Hitler."
It also looks like to me that those signs were photoshopped into the picture, but who is to say?
Lastly, I will be the first to say that I personally have never called the entire teabag party "racists." But I will also be the first to say that I believe a sizeable and loud minority of them are racists. Further, I believe that the teabag party attracts a lot of racists because of their views of limited government.
Wrong...they only ever turned up a few at tea party rallies!! And if you add up all the tea party rallies over the last year, the number is much greater than 250,000.
There were signs and attitudes of this type at all the teabagger rallies I attended.
So I didn't join.
Unfortunately for you, I am not wrong. There were many, many pictures of teabaggers carrying around not only Hitler and Nazi comparison signs; there were many, many pictures of teabaggers carrying signs comparing Obama to Maoists, fascists, Stalin, communists, and almost any "ist" you can think of. Do not deny this.
And it is one of their great, dear leaders in the form of glenn the insane beck who spurred much of this on. I actually watched this hatemonger early on in his programs on Faux News last year. Day in, day out, he showed video of nazis marching the streets in Germany, all the while talking about Obama (i.e., comparing Obama to nazis). It is because of this hate activity of beck's, which continues to this day, that his teabagging followers have made these signs. In fact, beck had to ask his nimwit fans not to bring signs to his latest rally in August. Why? Because he knows they have brought such nazi comparison signs, as well as other nasty signs.....because of his actions and speech.
Dana Millbank has recently written a book about beck ("Tears of a Clown"); he has documented hundreds of nazi/Obama comparisons that beck has made. There is absolutely no doubt that beck's teabagging followers took their cue from him.
Somebody here said something about the Hitler mustache on Eric Cantor being offensive because Cantor is the only Jewish member in Congress. That may be; but while I applaud Cantor for denouncing Rich Iott, the idiot in Ohio who dresses up in Nazi SS uniforms, I have never heard Eric Cantor denounce glenn beck for his hundreds of nazi comparisons of Obama.
And what's your point about the sum total of other teabag rally attendance being more than 250,000? I don't get it. There were many people who could not get into the Mall yesterday; they wound up going to bars and watching the event on TV. Who knows how many thousands did this? There also were a number of events planned to watch the rally all around the country....thousands more. This was a single event; how can you compare numbers of a single event to numerous events over this past year the teabaggers had?
My point about the numbers was...There have only been a few negative signs reported at tea party rallies and there have been millions of attendees over the last year.
it's pretty much required one show up at a teabagger event with an Obama is Hitler, a fascist, a commie, tyrannical, a socialist (sometimes all on the same sign, as if words don't mean anything but when ya can't spell...) a bone in his nose, crosshairs over his face, demands he be impeached, demands that the govt get out of Social Security, medicare, education, quit taxing people.
The only time that didn't happen was when Beck told people not to bring signs. And you know why? Because beck knows they'd be threats on the president and batshit crazy bullshit. beck went all totalitarian on his followers and told them they'd be disappointed if they brought signs.
As for millions at those rallys? beck and bachman math is not of the real world.
me-oww!
If you added up all the tea parties you'd end up counting the same people many many times. While I'm sure some people only showed up at one party the vast majority were repeat attenders.. Meanwhile over 4 million people watched the event on the website that was setup to stream the video. There were satellite rallies across the country where many thousands attended. Hell it seems quite a few people who made it to DC got fed up with the transportation jam and just decided to watch the rally inside of various establishments.. By all means feel free to ignore reality and console yourself by counting each of your fellow tea party members as being multiple people...
carlsbagger is just counting their personalities? :)
Because they all have at least two:
One personality that accepts their SS checks or other government subsidy check and a second personality to show up at teabagger rallies protesting socialism.
We needed another FDR, instead we got another clinton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0mdxXw8Ac
But, NOooooooo, the bagger claims that Beck never uses Nazi imagery to paint Obama as a Nazi. I guess the bagger never earned a GED, because if he did he would have learned something (if he was capable of paying attention, that is).
There weren't but a couple of signs ever found at the tea party rallies, couldv'e been plants as well!! It is equally offensive to Eric Cantor, who is Jewish, to put a Hitler moustache on him as having a racist sign regarding Obama being black. They are both wrong, don't try to play it off as satire.
coming here all the time pushing a pro teabagger agenda.
Keep proving my point...the left is intolerant!
Tolerate morans, you socialist fascist racist elitists!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
but trolling and your immature flamebait is annoying. And thanks for proving mine--that you are desperate to gain approval from someone on the left. If you find 'the left' the big, oooh scary threatening monolithic, one-voiced left so intolerant, why do you keep coming back? It has to be you need approval for your views.
Sorry pal, but we're much smarter than you. And much more secure in our views, sad little teabagger.
me-oww!
You don't even know me! I might be smart and I might not. Smart enough to make you see how hypocritical and intolerant the left is.
And ignorant enough to argue with people you don't know without proveable facts.
Don't go into a biker bar and piss on everyone's shoes and not expect a reaction.
I provided links to the signs from this weekend...all you have done is make statements. Just because you say it doesn't make it so.
intolerant of willful ignorance that is true.
We needed another FDR, instead we got another clinton.
"Keep proving my point...the left is intolerant!"
Transference in action.
I have personally been to several Teabagger rallies. Plenty of offensive signs and people with ugly moods who were woefully underinformed or misinformed.
It's okay to be pissed off.
It's not okay to be ignorant.
their plants. you people are never responsible
me-oww!
is a good look for the douchebag. I hope he goes with it...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
How was that racist?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Really...how was that racist?? Eric cantor is a Jew, and they put a Hitler moustache on him. What grade are you in?
Is that a way that Jews are commonly depicted by anti-semites? No. It's one way that fascists- a political group, not a racial group- are depicted. Over the top? Yeah, sure. Racist? Well, it depicted Sarah Palin with the Hitler/Chaplin 'stache, too.
See, the teabaggers were holding those signs of Obama with a Hitler 'stache, too, and Hitler thought black folks are subhuman, too, but no one here called those signs racist. The racism was evident in the teabagger signs depicting Obama as a witch doctor, wearing a grass skirt, holding a spear, with a bone through his nose. Now if you've got a sign from any liberals depicting Cantor with horns and a tail, eating a baby adorned with a crucifix, well then, you might have a point.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
First of all...Chaplin, give me a break! Second, if it helps you sleep, go with it!
Racist or not racist?
And, btw, Chaplin was wearing that 'stache first. Look at pictures of Hitler during WWI: He was wearing what's known as a 'Kaiser Bill', with the ends waxed and pointed up.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
And you think that was what they were going for, Chaplin! and people on here are saying I'm not smart!!
I think they were going for Hitler/fascist. I just happen to think that it's a shame that he stole Chaplin's 'stache and made such a fucking bad reputation that when people now see that 'stache they think of Hitler, not Chaplin (or Adolph Menjou).
And those people saying you aren't smart? They're right. But don't worry: You'll have a bright future with the Tea Party as one of their political cops. You'll be running a camp before you know it.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Thanks for the encouragement...I thought I was pretty smart when I got a Business degree then went on to be PGA professional for 20 years!
Whatzzamatter?
Keep falling off the ball washer?
and you aren't!
me-oww!
Ignorant, maybe.
Not smart? The jury's still out on that one.
Nothing to do?
Maybe that's why you waste your time fishing here?
I come here to get smarter!
horns and a tail, eating a baby adorned with a crucifix,
I saw it on the innertoobz, so it must be true.
At least I graduated.
I have two degrees and a 4.0 college GPA.
Next.
Good for you...I hope your education serves you well!
not if you suggest it. You don't understand the difference between a joke and serious.
Here's a joke, but it's serious. I know, a very complex concept to simple minds, but even if it's over your head, others may enjoy it.
Teabaggers cons and Thugs are all about the bigotry. If this shames you to the point you feel the need to regularly show up on left leaning websites to plead your case, you need to start examining the reason 'your case' makes you so uncomfortable.
me-oww!
You may be an idiot...with no ability to see how hypocritical you sound! It's wrong when the right does it and it's wrong when the left does it!! Nice satire, a Hitlwer moustache on Eric cantor, who is Jewish. You think that is funny??
but that was one sign . When you hit a teabagger convention, it's pretty much the theme...
As for being an idiot, you may want to stop projecting. It just makes you look mentally ill on top of it. And you pathetic little 2nd grader Con/bagger/bircher/thugs with your "Oh mommy look! They did it too!" Like I said once. One guy at a rally of 215,000.
Again, if you find your stand so shameful that you have to come to a site like this over and over again to defend it, see above...
me-oww!
...your link that says, "...words have specific meanings." He seems to think that fascist necessarily means racist.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
from beginning to end. he's too frightened to watch.
me-oww!
They found very few signs, all you have to do is google it and you will see that there wern't very many. Woof
You are probably too young or not really clever enough to know how to properly run a search engine.
me-oww!
I provided the links with the signs from the comedy rally, you looked at them, obvioussly I found those. Why don't you provide the link backing your claim of many signs at tea party rallies. We know why.... woof
And the 'woof' retort is really so clever--if you're 8. Thanks for continually proving my point. Clueless, classless, and not a speck of cleverness about you.
PS I found the links on stories and in comments here. Give it a try. It's the blue writing.
me-oww!
Why don't you learn how to spell?
You are how you speak.
"obvioussly" Really?
sorry...never said I could spell. But that'a ok...you guys thought Bush wasn't smart, but he was the only US president with an MBA.
After the amazing financial crisis he left his successor, that doesn't say too much for the value of an MBA, does it?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Right...Obama has done it all perfect...it's all Bush's fault!
that any criticism of your messiah George Bush is met with derision on your part of Obama, as if saying Bush was incompetent equals saying Obama is perfect. A skilless deflection. No one here thinks Obama comes close to perfection. If you really think that, it's a wonder you can figure out how to turn on your comput--Oh wait...
me-oww!
turmoil in which 98% of us continue to suffer, that ANYONE has reverence for the chimp king.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
COMBINED.
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-d...
you're getting it!
(well actually he should never have used the same people that bush would have to solve the problem but other than that...)
We needed another FDR, instead we got another clinton.
you don't really believe he showed up for class and earned grades--wait, you are gullible enough to think that Look what he did to every business he touched and the country with his 'MBA.' Or Harvard has a shite MBA program.
The dunce
Bush in Iraq: A B-School Case Study
BTW We never thought he wasn't smart, we knew it, as established fact.
me-oww!
Facts are facts...only President is US history with an MBA! I'm sure the word of some obscure professor is real solid.
sport. So now, it's your contention the Harvard B school hires inadequate, obscure professors? What's that say about your boy Bush, his education, or your ability to argue your point in a consistent manner? And the second article contained the assessments of more than one B school prof.
Buying a diploma does not make one a scholar, and George Bush is proof of that, from his legacy admission and subsequent purchase of his undergrad grades and degree from Yale to to that bought-and-paid-for MBA you've stuck up on a pedestal.
It must be hard being unbright. If it didn't seem so boring, I'd plead with you to tell me all about it.
me-oww!
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Here ya go!
http://www.examiner.com/post-partisan-in-nati...
but an article that makes a statement calling people "Obamabots" can hardly be considered unbiased. and I don't know the political affiliation of the researchers, they only looked at 250 signs, no way of knowing if they skipped over the naked bigotry of gay hate and immigrant hate, and the first comment on the thread, it all pretty much tells me what I need to know--You love the haters, you are a hater, and you are embarrased by it, because you keep coming back here, trying to get someone to say "You're right" The only people that will agree with you are other haters, jack.
me-oww!
A blog post on the "Examiner" with absolutely no factual basis is what you are citing?
Is that all you have as "proof"? A blog post from another bagger?
You low IQ baggers just aren't even trying anymore.
Because
Republicans*whoops* Tea Partiers don't leave trash! So you've got that going for you: Waste Management Inc. is willing to donate toRepublican*whoops* Tea Party rallies, where they rent to non-Tea Partiers.Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
That's right, if somebody pisses you off, go for the ad hominem attack.
Works every time.
Right?
One guy made a naughty sign and I spotted it!"
--CarlSpackler, age 8
me-oww!
Denial is not just a river!! Please show many how many signs turned up at tea party events.
because I really am not interested in seeing the likes of you stick around. Hie yourself back to the morans at Freerethuglic, RS, LGF TPN you troll...
me-oww!
No...
woof
geez cle-ver.
me-oww!
In other words, what I say is fact because I said it and think that way.
So there.
(Sorry, this reply was meant to be to Carlspackler and I put it in the wrong place.)
I really want to see this troll leave. he claims he can operate a search engine, I assume he can type, spell, and has a computer with an internet connection.
me-oww!
You are the smart one... I might have an internet connection!
The difference is, this was a comedy event. Not very serious.
Get it?
Let me piss on your shoes and say "it's raining."
...
me-oww!
sounds like excuses to me...
Susie,
Certainly you've seen this video of total misrepresentation and outright lies about the Rally? Socialists? Labor Unions? "One Nation?"
Kinda funny to see extremists openly mocking sanity!
http://americansforprosperity.org/103010-stew...
:-)
200,000, eh?
All of a sudden I feel better about Tuesday.
I can't believe that you lot fed Carlspackler for long. Just embarrassing, really. Leave him be and he'll get bored.
nothing more fun on a Sunday afternoon showing them to be the utter nitwits they are, but you ARE right. I'll try in the future.
:D
me-oww!
I know that it's difficult Kitty, but you can do it!
....and it's Monday here.
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