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classicman 11-02-2010 12:31 AM

So now you admit that some hateful signs were there... well at least that's progress.
Perhaps you also missed this...
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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 692023)
I agree with you that the rally was a good thing. But make no mistake it was political


ETA - Bri - I'[m nt busting shit over the rally. you all and your "We're better than them attitude" makes me sick. Especially when proven wrong.

Twerpy? WTF is that? You don't like the reality that there are people on "your side" as hateful as those you despise on the other. Tough shit. Welcome to the real world.

xoxoxoBruce 11-02-2010 12:35 AM

Who me? I didn't see any hateful signs. I don't think the one you posted is hateful. Calling anyone who doesn't agree a socialist/Nazi/communist is hateful.

Pico and ME 11-02-2010 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 692060)
So now you admit that some hateful signs were there... well at least that's progress.
Perhaps you also missed this...


ETA - Bri - I'[m nt busting shit over the rally. you all and your "We're better than them attitude" makes me sick. Especially when proven wrong.

Twerpy? WTF is that? You don't like the reality that there are people on "your side" as hateful as those you despise on the other. Tough shit. Welcome to the real world.

Cuz you're being a twerp. I never said that there weren't such signs, only that I didn't see them and that they must be rare...AND THEY ARE. You haven't proven me wrong.

spudcon 11-02-2010 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 692061)
Who me? I didn't see any hateful signs. I don't think the one you posted is hateful. Calling anyone who doesn't agree a socialist/Nazi/communist is hateful.

Picture on post 159?

xoxoxoBruce 11-02-2010 01:33 AM

I hadn't seen that when I posted, I was talking about the previous sign he had posted. Yes that's hateful, to respond in kind with the same type of signs as the teabaggers. But mpt's point still stands, those signs were few and far between.

What have the Democrat's done?



Oh, and here's what the Republicans are doing...
http://pol.moveon.org/republicorp_orgchart/

Scriveyn 11-02-2010 04:47 AM

This one is a parody on the TP hate slogans, not a serious statement:

http://cellar.org/attachment.php?att...1&d=1288669681



Though I cannot prove it, the inconsistent JPEG artifacts in different parts of the image below seem to suggest it was shopped:

http://cellar.org/attachment.php?att...1&d=1288675247

piercehawkeye45 11-02-2010 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 692060)
Twerpy? WTF is that? You don't like the reality that there are people on "your side" as hateful as those you despise on the other. Tough shit. Welcome to the real world.

Not having your party in power seems to correlate with how likely you are going to start calling your opponents Nazis or at least it will make you yell it louder. If conservatives take over and have full power five years from now I bet it will switch back to how it was five years ago.

Also, despite Stewart's obvious liberal leaning, I don't doubt that he tried to make the rally apolitical, even though his audience would make it impossible for him. Intolerance from both sides are going to make it that much harder for politicians to get anything important and controversial done and both liberals and conservatives have figured this out, not just unbiased observers.

Spexxvet 11-02-2010 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 692023)
I agree with you that the rally was a good thing. But make no mistake it was political AND there was plenty of hate from those that were there which was not shown in the media. For example...

That's not hate, it's humor.

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 692027)
No kidding - Thats the point. They aren't being shown. HELLO??? THIS THING ON?

Wasn't last week nice? Where's Redux?

Pico and ME 11-02-2010 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 692068)
I hadn't seen that when I posted, I was talking about the previous sign he had posted. Yes that's hateful, to respond in kind with the same type of signs as the teabaggers. But mpt's point still stands, those signs were few and far between.

What have the Democrat's done?



Oh, and here's what the Republicans are doing...
http://pol.moveon.org/republicorp_orgchart/

Thanks for posting that, Bruce.

Its a mystery to me why that 'cheerleading' started so late. Too late.

classicman 11-02-2010 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Scriveyn (Post 692076)
Though I cannot prove it, the inconsistent JPEG artifacts in different parts of the image below seem to suggest it was shopped:

Tell that to NBC.

classicman 11-02-2010 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45 (Post 692084)
Not having your party in power seems to correlate with how likely you are going to start calling your opponents Nazis or at least it will make you yell it louder.

Which by that sign is what the liberals did. Thats all I was saying.

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Intolerance from both sides are going to make it that much harder for politicians to get anything important and controversial done and both liberals and conservatives have figured this out, not just unbiased observers.
Agreed. The problem lies where one side criticizes the other and yet part of them do exactly the same thing.

classicman 11-02-2010 08:12 AM

That piece is by this very same Bill Maher. :eyebrow:

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HBO's Bill Maher had a message for Muslims on his show Friday night: Get out of "the Western world."

Maher noted the news that Mohammed (when its various spellings are combined) is the year's most popular baby name in the United Kingdom. He said:

Am I a racist to feel alarmed by that? Because I am. And it’s not because of the race, it’s because of the religion. I don’t have to apologize, do I, for not wanting the Western world to be taken over by Islam in 300 years? ... I should be alarmed, and I don't apologize for it.

One guest, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell, responded that Maher's statement was "worse" than Juan Williams' admission of his fears of people wearing Muslim clothes on airplanes.

None of this is particularly surprising coming from Maher, who, while he likes to present himself as an equal opportunity religion-basher (see his movie "Religulous"), has long singled out Muslims (and, for that matter, Arabs).

glatt 11-02-2010 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 692096)
The problem lies where one side criticizes the other and yet part of them do exactly the same thing.

A very, very, very small part, if you are talking about the signs. The signs at the Comedy Central rally were much more calm and funny than the signs at the various tea party rallies. You had to look past the thousands of nice signs to find examples of "negative" signs, and even then, one of the "negative" signs was just a joke that you didn't get.

Pico and ME 11-02-2010 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker (Post 692021)
Most of that is hatred of liberal ideology, and fear of the likely consequences if that ideology is played out as policy.

They are being led by the nose to fear liberal ideology- in toto, and its irrational.

Much of liberal policy has helped to improve the lives of the everyday working person and to also protect them from the abuses that would be caused by unregulated businesses. Its that same liberal ideology that led us out of the world of Sinclair's The Jungle.

classicman 11-02-2010 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 692059)
But you left out he lead in to that quote...

Inocorrect, I quoted Stewart in post #146
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But they have been explicit about one aspect: "This is not a political rally in any way, shape or form," Stewart told CNN's Larry King last week.


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