Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive, 10/30/10!

[xoxoxoBruce]

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/

[Pico and ME]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

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.

[Pico and ME]

Originally Posted by classicman

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.

[Scriveyn]

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





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

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Scriveyn

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.

[Juniper]

I think this is what Yusuf meant when he talked about Rushdie.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by classicman

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]

Originally Posted by classicman

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.

Originally Posted by classicman

No kidding - Thats the point. They aren't being shown. HELLO??? THIS THING ON?

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

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

That's not hate, it's humor.

Thats your opinion.

Wasn't last week nice?

Yes it was.

Where's Redux?

He asked for his account to be deleted.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by classicman

He asked for his account to be deleted.

I guess we don't need him to have an ugly thread.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by classicman

He asked for his account to be deleted.

Mhm. Leaving the Cellar, and the field, to the people of freedom, which, being a Democratic Party Kool-Aid carrier, he was definitely not.

Hasn't, in the end, the courage of his convictions. Not compared to the likes of Classic, Merc, and me.

Spexx, m'dear, "ugly" is a word better spelt F R E E and A D U L T, as in adult thinking, which is something that just prevents you remaining on the Left.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by classicman

He asked for his account to be deleted.

Realllyyyyyyyy, now. THAT is interesting. When someone else I know asked for the same consideration he was told "we don't do that."

And how do you know anyway?

From the top to the bottom: fucking idiots.

Gooses and ganders only get gotten when gayly gathering posies for the asses of the articulate asshats.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

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.

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.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by classicman

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.

[classicman]

That piece is by this very same Bill Maher.

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).