Comments on: A Day Without A Wingnut

By: Piggy

Piggy — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:37:51 +0000

Incidentally, the Daily Mail article which the ol’ perfesser linked to as evidence for the 2 million claim has had it’s headline downgraded from “up to 2 million” to a just “a million”. Which then goes down to “up to a million” in the article and “tens of thousands” in one of the captions.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213056/Up-million-march-US-Capitol-protest-Obamas-spending-tea-party-demonstration.html

By: Doctorb

Doctorb — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:17:47 +0000

Ha, if all “two million” of these protesters had instead voted for McCain in 2008 (presumably most of them did, so let’s say double-voted or whatever), then Obama would only have won by seven and a half million votes! I blame the media.

By: LanceThruster

LanceThruster — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:03:31 +0000

We porn star name Hall of Famers are very selective. We would reject her inclusion the same as we did for Christy Love of “Get Christy Love” fame (though the “get” part was certainly a point in her favor). As it turns out however, “Lotta Love” was a shoe-in.

Thrustingly yours,

LanceThruster

By: Jim_paul

Jim_paul — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:51:11 +0000

Nothing class-warriorish about that. No sir, not a thing…

By: Honus

Honus — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:53:07 +0000

“Fellow Patriots, Americans. The weather is no concern to us. Think about Washington and his troops during that freezing cold December 26th taking the city of Trenton, and the War of our Independence ending. Two soldiers froze to death during that March.”

The war of our Independence ended in Yorktown, Virginia in the summer. With the French helping.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:07:02 +0000

Stalwart Patriots, I march with you today with boldness
When history repeats itself for these guys, it is not so much farce as slash fiction, with them as Mary-Sues.

By: St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon

St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:50:32 +0000

This is our day fellow Patriots for the Cause of Liberty. Each day is ours, inasmuch as with live according to the principles that give us freedom. Stalwart Patriots, I march with you today with boldness, yet not being overbearing, with courage, with gratitude, and with a determination to restore our Government to an accountability to our Constitution.

This is always an issue for me. These assholes have gone so far into their own assholes over their reactionary nostalgia that they need to pretend every action they take is going to appear in some Ken Burns WEDU documentary, read sternly by the celebrities of a hundred years from now.

You went to a fucking protest rally, you knob. Better yet, you watched the Weather Channel and then rewrote the five-day forecast in this overwrought drama queen language that the rest of us abandoned when we realized it was better to just get information instead of beat our breast about how fucking awesome we were every fucking moment of the day, you fucking nationalist Pharisee.

In short, rewrite or die, fuckknuckle.

By: Substance McGravitas

Substance McGravitas — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:08:18 +0000

A bomb threat kept the crowd from being two BILLION.

By: Froley

Froley — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:32:05 +0000

Clearly the Cincinnati Bengals of the protesting world.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:15:23 +0000

I am also at a loss to understand how people like these can be gainfully employed.

By: Substance McGravitas

Substance McGravitas — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:14:50 +0000

Isn’t Shannon Love a dude?

As I pointed out upthread, Shannon Love is clearly a bitch.

By: justme

justme — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:05:47 +0000

Isn’t Shannon Love a dude? I noticed some people using female pronouns…

I did. My bad. Frankly, other than possibly besmirching the better sex, which I apologize for, I can't be arsed to care. The less I know about this clown, the more pleasant my life will undoubtedly be. Also, this is what one-and-a-half-million-plus people on the Mall looks like. I doubt the sack-suckers got as many folks there as were huddled in front of the jumbotron next to the Washington Monument at the back of the inaugural crowd. Again, take note of the amount of temporary infrastructure required to host that sort of crowd. I'd love to see any picture of yesterdays tantrum showing anything like that.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:03:11 +0000

Does she even listen to herself? - 50,000-70,000 becomes 2 million (a lie spread by the president of Freedomworks) - 2 million becomes 2 million with jobs (pulled straight out of Shalov's ass)

By: Djur

Djur — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:40:02 +0000

Isn’t Shannon Love a dude? I noticed some people using female pronouns…

By: g

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:21:56 +0000

Kee-rist, this is hilarious! When you figure that their bold, determined act was to board a charter bus, wear comfy shoes, eat doughnuts and hold signs and mill around on the mall, such florid language must have truly inspired!

By: justme

justme — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:13:29 +0000

Hmm. From tig’s C&L link, I see that sack-sucker central says they had a permit for a one million man event. One wonders, if that were the case, who is supposed to provide and pay for enough portasans? Judging from any pictures I’ve seen, there are virtually none. So, either DC issued the permit for 1 mil, and knew it was a bullshit estimate and didn’t bother putting up the shitters (also, extra cops, ems, etc.), or the organizers knew it was a bullshit estimate, and weren’t about to waste perfectly good wingnut welfare money on toilets for nonexistent rubes when there’s Hot Pockets to eat.

Either way, nobody actually expected anywhere near a million people to show for this bullshit. As they say, Follow The ~~Money~~ Toilets.

By: owlbear1

owlbear1 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:01:42 +0000

Oh this is so great!

Now ABC is to blame for the bogus 2 Million claim.

Yep it’s ABC’s fault, because, they hyped up the Freedom Works on-stage claim of 1.5 million by refuting it.

By: justme

justme — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:52:36 +0000

The problem was with the unit of measurement. They meant to report that there were 2 million pounds of protesters present.

Now, now. They're Brits, and old school, so it's two million Stone (400lbs ea.). I have to wonder if the 2 mil number wasn't picked just so they wouldn't be outdone by the dusky Million Man March, which I'm reasonably sure is the thing S-Love is dancing around with her "hard to get Real Americans to show up" bit.

By: Newbie McNoob

Newbie McNoob — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:52:24 +0000

Billionaires for Wealthcare has to be the group formerly known as Billionaires for Bush, correct? If so, it’s awesome they’re still around whatever they call themselves these days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHVwrCzRUX0

By: DrDick

DrDick — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:51:35 +0000

When the teabaggers arrive at the figure of 2 million, are they also counting protests in places like French Lick, Indiana or Blue Ball, Pennsylvania?

Well, that might (if everybody in town joined in) get you all the way up to a maximum total of maybe 62,000.