The Best Anti-Arizona Protest Signs

Spot on. Via Buzz Feed, a lot more there.

Palin/McCain rally: "I'm real disappointed they didn't talk about the Mexicans overrunning Arizona."

By GottaLaff

J.D. Hayworth, Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Andrew Thomas (Maricopa County Attorney)
(about a month ago)

The poster reads, "McCain/Palin betray the Tea-Party"
Mesa, AZ rally


The video of Ron Paul war protesters is a little shaky, but at least you get a glimpse.

My dear Twitter pal Tiggrr1 attended the Mesa, Arizona Palin, er, McCain event. That would be the very same event where a heckler got roughed up for practicing free speech.

He e-mailed me with some observations of that, and a couple of other things.

Tiggrr got to the Mesa rally just as the police released the two kids who had been forced out.

He grabbed a quick snapshot (see above) before the crowd started looking, er, askance at him.

He took some video (I'm not sure if I'll be able to get my hands on it), but one included a man with a sign that said, "Pull your head out Sarah". [Added note: Tiggrr tells me that the guy at the beginning of the video was the one holding the sign, including a slash through his McCain picture.]

He also shot some footage of Ron Paul supporters protesting the Afghan war (above).

Other video moments included a few pro-forced pregnancy advocates at a nearby Catholic church.

Tiggrr also encountered some anti-immigration protesters who decided to spontaneously blurt out their feelings to him. They were disappointed with Speaky McHellNo, and were angry that she is backing, as they call it, "pro-immigrant McCain". And he quotes:

"I know that Palin doesn't want these illegals in our country."

That from a man who was carrying a Going Rogue book.

Another said:

"I'm real disappointed they (McCain & Palin) didn't talk about the Mexicans overrunning Arizona."

Tiggrr decided to ask some of the Tea Baggers who they considered to be their Arizona hero. The answers: Pearce, Thomas, Arpaio, and J.D. Hayworth... for standing up to illegal immigration (see top photo)

As Tiggrr tells it, he "has lived in Arizona for 50 years, growing up with Hispanic immigrants in Mesa. There was a farming town in which many immigrant children were born, and are U.S. citizens."

But, he goes on, now these same hard working people are portrayed as "illegals, dope dealers, and gang members by the GOP and the Tea Baggers." He wonders "how many Hispanics have they been around? My guess is they don't see American Hispanics as equals."

As we all know, one of the next big issues pending in Congress is immigration.

It's going to be a very long year.

Police Concerned About Parliamentarian’s Safety

By GottaLaff

Handout / Courtesy of Congressional Pictorial Directory, Government Printing Office/Los Angeles Times/MCT

Nobody is safe now. Be proud, Tea Tantrumers and Rushpublic fear-mongers:

Tea party protesters are reportedly planning a protest at the home of Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin later this week, prompting Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer to work with local law enforcement officials to ensure Frumin’s safety.

Once again these zealots are invading the privacy of a fellow citizen by going to his home. Where he lives. With his family.

I remember hearing that Frumin is a very private man.

Not any more.

VIDEO: "There will be a civil war" if health care reform passes

By GottaLaff

TPM's Evan McMorris-Santoro talked to Kris Fisher of Oakville, Virginia.:



Do these people, these "citizens", realize that we have a Congress that was elected by American voters, legally?

And that their side lost? Fair and square? Or doesn't their brand of patriotism cover stuff like one person, one vote?

That's called "democracy". Say it with me, Kris. De-moc-ra-cy. Or in her case, deMOCKracy.

They lost.

They lost.

Let me say that one more time, so that even Kris the Protester can understand it.

They. Lost.

Deal with it without the threat of violence, okay? Can we all manage that? Or is peaceful coexistence passé?

'Kthanksbye.

Video- President Obama's Remarks on Failed Terror Attack and Protests in Iran

Via FDL.

Video- Sit-in for Health Care Reform at Lieberman's Hartford office 11/10/2009

Hahahaha!

David Shuster's Twitter fight with anti-gay church that picketed Obama kids’ school

By GottaLaff

Earlier today I posted about David Shuster's disgust at a group of picketers from Westboro Baptist Church outside of the Obama girls' school. Tomorrow they plan on protesting again.

David Shuster said all the right things, so I guess the truth hurt these revolting bunch of vulgar maniacs' widdle feelings:

But Shuster's Tweet set off an argument between the MSNBC reporter and Phelps-Roper.

"Don't forget our Tuesday Sidwell picket," Phelps-Roper Tweeted at Shuster, in reference to the group's plans to picket the school again. "Put away your idols and obey God!"

"Go ahead," Shuster Tweeted back at Phelps-Roper. "Show the entire world the vile, crude, and disgusting protest you put on this [morning] at the Obama kids' school."

Thank you, David. They are targeting children with their hate. Un. Ac. Ceptable.

As Terkel notes, this isn't the first time that an activist group has used the Obama girls' school as a setting for political exposition. In September, the group Operation Rescue held a protest outside Sidwell Friends where they reportedly displayed pictures of fetuses.

"Showing pictures of fetuses to young children will surely convince Malia and Sasha to be anti-choice, and warm hearts everywhere," liberal Fox News commentator Alan Colmes quipped at the time.

Two of my favorite Twitter pals nailed it, David Shuster for directly calling out this despicable group of zealots, and Alan for his snarky truth-telling.

This so-called "church" is shameless. Maybe someone should start picketing them.

H/t: Novenator

Dim Bulb Express

By GottaLaff

Following up the horror story that was my last post, here is some exquisite comic relief from the very same group:

About 500 people gathered in front of the Georgia Capitol Monday evening for a rally to mark the visit of two “The Tea Party Express” buses, a publicity campaign by conservatives that is traveling coast to coast. [...]

The speeches were set to start at 5:30 p.m., but the group forgot a podium, so the speeches started after dark. About 6 p.m., the buses arrived. Capitol police shut down Washington Street, and the crowd walked in the street.

Did we expect anything different?

Asked if she opposed Democrats or Republicans, [Ann Martin of Peachtree City] said, “Throw out all the incumbents. Let’s start over. This is a mess.”

She might very well have been referring to her own group of geniuses.

H/t: raine1967

PhotOH! Atlanta Tea Party: "Is Obama a naturally born citizen?" Crowd screams no

By GottaLaff

One of my Twitter pals, emokidsloveme, is at an Atlanta Tea Tantrum. She's a brave woman (click on images to enlarge):

Another tweet:

Some woman from patriots heart network asks, "is Obama a naturally born citizen?". Crowd screams no.

Typical. And how appalling is it that this is "typical" of anything?

Thank you Emokidsloveme, for braving such hostility. She'll be posting more photos and video on her Twitter page soon.

David Shuster: Tea baggers protest outside of Obama girls' school

By GottaLaff

Every time I think the tea tantrumers have gone too far, they go even too farther. This is despicable and completely unacceptable:

(click on image to enlarge)

David said it all. This was beyond the pale. The Obama girls are just kids--with feelings-- for goodness sake, and they are also not the only students who would be negatively affected by such hateful behavior.

Love the fetus, disdain the children.

H/t: muttlikemeblog

UPDATE:

Turns out they're from the Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group that travels around the country holding anti-gay rallies:

H/t: GreeneMeansGo

VIDEO ADDED: Neo-Nazis rally against illegal immigration in Phoenix

By GottaLaff

2007

The good news? There were protesters protesting the Nazi protesters. The bad news? The Nazi protesters:

"I've never done anything like this before, but there's just so much racial tension in Phoenix lately," Wilcox said, as he held a sign that read "Nazis stay out of PHX" "I don't want it to seem like (they are) welcome here."

Members of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group based out of Detroit, were met with a greater number of protesters. [...]

J.T Ready of Mesa also spoke at the America First Rally. He said the group was defending his country against invaders.

I consider Nazis the invaders... of democracy, of the general health and welfare of this country, of rationality and sanity... the list goes on.

Andy Hernandez of Phoenix said he was surprised at the different types of people who showed up to protest the neo-Nazis.

"There's all kinds of people, from different races and colors," Hernandez said. "We represent America. We didn't shut them down, but we gave them a counter protest. We just oppose what Nazi represents."

The Nazis want to shut down people of all races and colors, yet those very same people, the ones who the Nazis long to eradicate, somehow willingly uphold their enemies' liberties.

And the Tea Partiers/Bachmanns/Becks et al. equate the name Obama with the word Nazi... claiming that they represent "real" America.

UPDATE (blog title has been amended):

H/t: Tiggrr1

Tea Bagger PhotOh! Meet the Foxers

By GottaLaff

Admitting you have a problem is half the battle:

Unfortunately, these are not admissions. These are boasts.

Shoes fly as Bush tells audience, ‘I did not sell my soul’

By GottaLaff

No, not "shoo, fly!"... Shoes fly. And for good reason: Boy Georgie, aka Mr. Popularity, opened his big yap:

Speaking to a $400-a-seat crowd in Montreal, Bush told the roughly 1,000 attendees that his presidential decisionmaking was principled and moral.

These presidential decisions (follow link)?

"I am confident that I made decisions based on principle, that I made calls as best I could, and I did not sell my soul," Bush said.

Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. He didn't sell his soul.

He gave it away.

A throng of protesters burned a flaming effigy of the former president, who's taken his stump speech on the road across Canada. [...]

A protest organizer encouraged Bush opponents to bring old shoes, in reference to an Iraqi who threw a shoe at the President during a speech late in his presidency.

And finally, a message from his biggest fan:

In Edmonton, where Bush spoke earlier this week, a protester toted a representation of the Grim Reaper, which boasted a sign saying, "GWB I am your biggest fan" and "Thanks for 8 great years."

45,000 people a year dying from no healthcare, but they protest "indoctrination"

By GottaLaff

Maybe the protesters, who apparently thought opposing President Obama's school speech was vital to our nation's well-being, got more health benefits from marching against that than from raising their demented voices against Big Insurance.

Via my Twitter pal Will Bunch:

BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - About 70 protesters let their voices be heard outside a school in New Jersey where students sang praise of President Barack Obama.

Members of anti-tax Tea Party groups and others joined outside B. Bernice Young School in Burlington Township Monday to denounce what they believe was political indoctrination of students.

The school began getting attention from conservative commentators last month after a video surfaced of a group of second-graders singing a song that praised Obama last school year.

Protesters sang patriotic anthems and chanted slogans such as "Free children, free minds" and called for the principal to be reassigned.

Not only is this one of the stupidest protests imaginable, but, well, timing is everything. This manufactured controversy is so, like, a zillion superfluous Tea Tantrums ago.

Swastika-adorned supremacists march for 'white civil rights' after bus beating

By GottaLaff

Security camera video of the attack Police have backed off the claims that this was racially motivated.

Because whites are so oppressed in this country:

BELLEVILLE, Ill. — A group waving flags adorned with swastikas traded insults with and challenged a crowd of about 250 onlookers from behind yellow wooden barricades manned by police including SWAT members during a midday protest Saturday.

After an hour of loud protesting by white supremacists, who were countered by a silent demonstration, police ended the two downtown rallies at 12:30 p.m.

While a police sniper watched from the roof of the police station, 22 members of white supremacist groups, shouted obscenities and made obscene hand gestures. One man, who had a crew cut and wore a black uniform, told the crowd of onlookers, "Wake up white America!"

Nothing says "peace and love" like insults and swastikas:

"We were out there to denounce the violence," said Belleville resident Jason Bonn, who is a corporal with the National Socialist Movement, a group with a name similar to the Nazi Party of Germany during World War II. Bonn’s group is "fighting for white civil rights."

I feel for us white people. We've had it so rough since we forced African Americans into slavery.

Around the corner from the shouting protesters on West Washington Street, several dozens participated in a silent counter-rally on South Illinois Street. The Rev. John Curry, of Conqueror’s Christian Center in Belleville organized the counter protest: "Our message is to preach love for all groups, skinheads, KKK, Nazis, all groups. Hate has got to stop. Our message is silent love."

What?! Who do these people think they are, being all quiet and compassionate and stuff? That's positively unAmerican!

Kimberly Schnarr, of Livingston, was one of the protesters with Bonn. "We're proud of our white heritage," she said. "We're not preaching hate."

Of course not! Don't be silly! White supremacy is all about wiping out an entire race, not hate.

Papua New Guineans on Obama "witchdoctor" image: "Keep my country out of your foolishness"

By GottaLaff

The wingnuts have finally done it. Now the whole whole world sees what racist ignorami they are:

Papua New Guineans have reacted angrily to an image depicting US President Barack Obama as a witchdoctor [...] but the original image is actually that of a Huli wigman in PNG's southern Highlands.

The National newspaper reports expatriate Papua New Guineans have been voicing their disgust in emails to friends back home.

One blogger called for those responsible to apologise for insulting PNG culture.

Another said "keep my country out of your foolishness".

Way to improve America's image, Rushpublics. And way to show yourselves as the open-minded, inclusive party that you are...n't.

Bats**t Buffet VIDEO: Anti-Healthers Gone Wild

By GottaLaff



We get e-mails. This one is from Kevin, who edited together some excellent footage... if you're into whackos:

This is a video I edited of interviews with some very crazy town hall "anti-healthcare-reform"protesters at a San Diego town hall meeting this past Saturday.

Indeed it is. It's the ultimate collection of sound bites. It's all the TeaDeathers, TeaTantrumers, Anti-Healthers, and [fill in the] -Ers cliche you could ask for ... and then some, all in one video. It's a veritable smorgasbord of fear mongering, a bountiful buffet of lunacy. Weeee!

"He's a radical Communist, a basic Muslim. This is a stepping stone for takeover, what Hitler did in Germany..."

I needed a cigarette when it was over-- and I don't even smoke.

Wait. Did that guy really say, "the U.S.S. Constitution"?

Our footage of the protesters from the 8/29/09 town hall meeting concerning health care reform.

Key Words: Spring Valley Republicans Democrats Nationalized Universal Public Option Marxist Hitler Abortion Nazi Brown Shirts Storm Troopers Acorn Sean Hannity Glen Beck Mike Savage Fox News CNN Bill O'Reilly Rationing Death Panels Euthanasia Aarp Seniors Private Government Spending Hidden Mandate Abortion Taxes Medicare Medicade Hospitals Health Angry Shouting Yelling Screaming Arguing Protest Unconstitutional Billionaires For Wealthcare.

Grab some popcorn, pull up a beanbag chair, and revel in the crazy.

Video- Man With Assault Rifle Outside Obama Event: 'We Will Forcefully Resist'

Something I either never knew or forgot long ago- Squeaky Fromme had no bullets in her gun, yet she served 34 years in prison.

In a YouTube video, the man who carried a semi-automatic assault rifle outside yesterday's presidential event tells fellow demonstrators "We will forcefully resist people imposing their will on us through the strength of the majority with a vote."

The man, only identified as "Chris," spoke against taxation: "Just because you sic the government on people doesn't make it morally OK to steal money from people. Taxation is theft."

He also said "it would be insane" not to be armed, saying he wears a gun at all times.

Photos don't lie-- Health Care Protesters: "We have no idea what we're talking about"

By GottaLaff

(click on image to enlarge)

H/t: Christy Harvey

Dem Congressman Gets Death Threats Over Health Care Bill

By GottaLaff

We knew the irrational mob mentality of the Rushpublicrazies would escalate, and we were right:

Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) will not be hosting any town hall events this August -- instead, he's making himself available to constituents for one-on-one meetings about health care reform -- and at least part of the reason is this: His offices have received threatening phone calls, including at least one direct threat against his life. [...]

"The call to the D.C. office was, 'Miller could lose his life over this,'" said Canipe. "Our staffer took it so seriously, he confirmed what the guy was saying. He said, 'Sir is that a threat?' and at that time our staffer was getting the phone number off caller ID and turning it over to the Capitol Police."

They haven't heard anything back from the police yet, but they did get the caller's number. [...]

"Our point is, we're not gonna be bullied into having a town hall so it can then be interrupted by the fake grassroots folks."

This is just sick. And Michael Steele thinks everything is hunky dory. What a guy. What sound judgment. What fine leadership.