Liveblogging Glenn Beck's 9-12 D.C. Parade Signage
As I joked this morning on Twitter about Glenn Beck's 9-12 DC March, I got this tweet:
@diggrbiii @johnennis That's right. With every comment you expose your bitterness and desperation. I'm giving you advice. Keep quiet today. #tcot
This encouraged a day of live-blogging Glenn Beck's 9-12 event on my site, www.johnennis.tv. I was specifically challenging early boasts by the attendees that there were over 1 million in attendance, which was later confirmed to be around 50,000-60,000.
Glenn Beck's army of xenophobic zombies took to the streets of D.C. to protest everything that has happened since the black guy became president. Not the Bush deficits, just the ones Obama would make if he offered health care to citizens. Not all government intervention--the intervention into stopping gays marrying and women from having abortions is fine. They're supposedly protesting both political parties, but sure seem to support Republican Rep. Joe Wilson for acting like a drunkard in Congress, and sure seem to blame the Democrats for everything...the GOP not so much.
These pictures effectively capture this scene as a convention of disaffected, disoriented hot heads who have grabbed onto every grievance, real or imagined, since Obama took office. BIG PROPS to Stephanie Taylor for braving the scene to document the depths, and shout out again to The Political Carnival.
Isn't there a law against making threats against the President? MY BAD, just the white ones, the laws need updating still.
See? Nothing but secular, rational, non-fear mongering civil discourse, focusing on facts and positive steps for our country.
This boy is clearly well aware as to what McCarthyism is, and clearly got himself there on his own free will, with his own unbiased opinions not any misinformation being drilled into him by the older generation. Zero.
This sign urges us to forgo thoughts, speech, actions, and instead jump on the one-word bandwagon of indiscriminate discrimination. Judge on!
Once again, some secular, non-hysterical speculation rooted in reason, logic, and tolerance, proudly displayed.
More proof that these people don't know their history or vocabulary: Is it worth explaining to this guy that the USSR was founded to OVERTHROW czars, and that the number he is suggesting is literally "ZERO"? Or that, more recently, republican presidents have had more "czars" than Obama?
See? With devil horns and a goatee, that proves he is evil, like the devil Satan! Who needs thoughts, reasons, details, accurate media reports, or a mind that isn't sealed shut when you can SEE he has pointy horns on?! Besides, evil is bad.
If it looks big & scary and it sounds like a play on words it must be right.
"A watered down effort to offer some form of government health allowance with concessions to insurance companies, big pharma, and lobbyists is equivalent to genocidal efforts to breed other types of people out of existence. Also, Hitler and the Joker are scary, therefore Obama is also scary, because his image is herein composite with their images."
Okay. (Deep breath.) If you do not know how to spell it, how do you know you are using the term correctly, or really know what you are talking about?
"And I rigged up this little string, see? So we can all yell at him...You LIE!"
A motif of the day appears to be a defiance of irony: Here, a woman is scared of the New World Order, nearly two decades after President George Bush Sr. declared it.
Someone seems to have taken a theater class, and wants to show it off with clearly thoughtful allusions to Shakespeare and Phantom of the Opera. Because this masked man lied us into war. Right? Or is it he's lying about what he's going to do? And you know his real intention because...Glenn Beck is also a playwright?
This man means business, and not just because of that belt buckle: he is a two-fisted sign holder, one with details and solutions like "Health Care/Private Sector," and the other which says that Obama is not just guilty of treason, he IS treason. In case you did not understand the logo "=" means "equals," this kind man has made it even simpler for you by adding that in careful scrawl. Pretty smart!
Terri Schiavo? Isn't she the woman whose final wishes for her health care were intruded upon by activist state and federal government officials trying to grandstand their beliefs, despite many court rulings and husband's wishes?
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Those pictures are sure worth a thousand words -- thanks for posting them, terrifying though it is to have so much misdirected anger and hatred. I still can't figure out what any of the astroturf dangerous clown convention had to do with 9/11 or this supposed lovefest that occurred the next day. If the loonies weren't so dangerous, this would be hilarious.
OK is this getting like Marat Sade or what and if it is we can only hope that Beck is their Jean-Paul Marat
Dear right wing nut jobs, stop trying to pass off your plagarized inflamatory rhetoric as patriotism. As my husband likes to say, if China took over the country tomorrow, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glen Beck would be the first ones learning Mandarin. These people are loyal not to country but to currency and they will serve whomever can provide them the largest share of it. Keep that in mind should you accidently find yourself regurgitating a mindless talking point or two.
For some humor on this topic, check out
http://thefunpie.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/right-wing-compares-obama-to-hitler/
To me this is an outrageous amount of bigotry, racism, prejudice, closed mindedness and closed heartedness. I feel and believe these people at this rally do not do any true and factual research on any of the accusations they are spewing out agaist Preisdent Obama, the Democrats and all of the supporters. And I am not just refering to the supporters of Obama and the Democrats, but supporters for the Unisted States of America. They apparently do not beleive in United we stand, divided we fall.
It's pathetic to see these idiots (please note when I say idiots I mean the historical definition: c.1300, "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning," from O.Fr. idiote "uneducated or ignorant person," from L. idiota "ordinary person, layman," in L.L. "uneducated or ignorant person) walking around carrying signs that say nothing and mean less. They fail to grasp reality in the slightest form and should be dealt with like metal patients because sadly that's what they are. They are so disillusioned they have lost their grip on reality. It's sad to see that people in the modern era could lose their minds so easily.
Yes, not only are they idiots in the historical meaning of the term, but they actually seem to be proud of it. Anti-intellectualism run amuck...
Note that some of these "patriots" are wearing the U.S. Flag in violation of the U.S. Code regarding the flag...
Stupid on parade!
I love the kid whose shirt said we needed "McCarthyism" as a cure for liberal politics.
The definition of "irony"; probably clueless as to the 50s red-scare's reality and to "Tail Gunner" Joe's drunken, lying bullying that passed for patriotism.
You missed the best one, in the background of the "Trust Me"-Obama-is-a-devil-Poster: The sign wants Obama to get rid of the Czars "just like the Russians" did, and that - says the poster - was "social justice". They actually want communism.
These are sick people. And they look so unhappy. How sad to see that the Republican party has degenerated to this. I pity their children!
These people look like they hallucinate Elvis and angels.
A sign invoking the image of Terry Schiavo to warn against government provided health care? I'm having a little trouble discerning your message. Democrat proposed health care reform is bad; because, republican ill advised intervention is bad. It'll be a stretch, but maybe you can connect those dots.
I think this sign bearing person would be well advised to tune in to the teachings of Prof. Glenn Beck for a few more years. The message seems to get a little garbled when copied off of Beck's blackboard.
They need more time away from Mr. Beck, not more time listening to him.
We have met the enemy and he is us .. Pogo
A Waycross liberal? Surely this is a dream! :)
The greater Obama is the more they go crazy. And look how crazy they're going
These people actually trusted George Bush.
People wearing t shirts with Bush's name and an x through it were arrested. They take signs wanted to torture Obama and nothing happens, yet they think Obama is Hitler.
I mean, I want to think these people are redeemable.....
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