TagsTagsHere's something interesting: while doing my janitorial rounds, I noticed referrals coming from Reddit, from a discussion of a new anti-Occupy Wall Street smear circulating on Facebook, a photograph of some anarchists with a sign that says, "Fuck the Troops." The photograph's real enough: But it's almost 5 years old; it was ...
Occupy Wall Street, Demonstration, Oregon, Smear, Right Wing, Outrageous Outrage
Washington DC's Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has announced that they set a new record for the highest Saturday Metrorail ridership last weekend, due to the Jon Stewart-Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear. Metro set a new record for highest Saturday Metrorail ridership on Saturday, October 30. Officials estimate ...
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Photography, Science
Quite a difference from the signs we usually see at Tea Party events, courtesy of LGF reader Carl Hoffman. Click the picture to start the slideshow... %%SLIDESHOW=/slideshows/20 101030RallyToRestoreSanity|http://little greenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/ZZ1FC D1E90.jpg%%
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering, Photography
Sometimes I wake up, have some coffee, load up Tweetdeck to check Twitter, and discover that all the wingnuts are chattering excitedly about a crushing new post by someone that really puts me in my place, smacks me down, and destroys the last shreds of my credibility. Seems to happen ...
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering
Based on aerial photos taken by AirPhotosLive.com, the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear attracted approximately 215,000 people, more than twice as many as Glenn Beck's 9/12 religious right rally. An estimated 215,000 people attended a rally organized by Comedy Central talk show hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Saturday ...
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering
From The Stewart/Colbert Rally, our photo of the day (courtesy of LGF reader simoom):
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering
Here's the live video feed for the Stewart-Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. An estimate from an unnamed Parks Service employee puts attendance at "well over 200,000," according to the New York Times's Brian Stelter. Publicly, Parks Service doesn't estimate crowds. Privately, it has told Viacom there are "well ...
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering, Live Video
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's dueling rallies are shaping up to be truly massive. Sign-ups for the rally have been tallied on Facebook. Beyond the 290,000 who have so far signed on as definite attendees, 145,000 more have listed themselves as maybes. The site Rallymao.com has assembled a roster of the ...
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering
The "One Nation" liberal demonstration is now under way on the National Mall in Washington DC, and you can watch it live at C-SPAN.
The March to Restore Sanity meets the March to Keep Fear Alive. [Video] [Video]
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering
Tim Blair is a funny person! Now he's demanding an apology from me. What will he think next? This time he dug up an LGF post from the presidential election, in which I quoted some excerpts from Barack Obama's autobiography about his prejudice toward white people, earlier in his life. (As ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King, Tim Blair
These days if I bother to read one of Tim Blair's phoned-in attack pieces, I increasingly get the feeling that he thinks his readers are complete idiots. His style has been reduced to tossing out distorted accusations in one-line sentences, then sitting back and letting his readers respond with the ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King, Tim Blair
The emerging media narrative on Glenn Beck's rally is that it was a "religious" event, not a "political" event: Glenn Beck Leads Religious Rally at Lincoln Memorial. But they're completely missing the point. In this context, there's no distinction between "religion" and "politics." The extreme right wing religious views promoted by ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King
CBS News commissioned an estimate of the crowd size at today's Glenn Beck Festival, and the results are in: Glenn Beck Rally Attracts Estimated 87,000. An estimated 87,000 people attended a rally organized by talk-radio host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck Saturday in Washington, according to a crowd estimate ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King
The Glenn Beck Hope Restoration Minstrel Show banned attendees from carrying signs, knowing from past Tea Party experience that a public relations disaster always ensues when the loons get creative with a piece of cardboard and a set of colored magic markers. And they were trying to appear non-political and ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King
Today in Washington DC, Glenn Beck wept at least four times during a speech that shamelessly invoked Martin Luther King's name over and over, with an air of exaggerated reverence and treacly sentimentality. But earlier this year, on his own website, Beck had no qualms at all about labeling King as ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King
Today thousands of angry white people have descended on the National Mall on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, to whine about how they're being persecuted and unfairly maligned, sponsored by a race-baiting lunatic Fox News host who promotes the ideology of the far right ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Demonstration, Martin Luther King
Remember when Joseph Farah of World Net Daily gave the opening night speech at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville — a full tilt loony Birther rant that also advocated a Christian theocracy in the US — and got a standing ovation? Remember how Andrew Breitbart got out in ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Bad Craziness, Andrew Breitbart, Joseph Farah, World Net Daily, Lou Dobbs, Birthers
From a tea party demonstration at an appearance by Barack Obama in Buffalo, New York. (Hat tip: KT.)
Uh… Also see: What’s In a Name?
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Bad Craziness, Andrew Breitbart
On CNN’s American Morning, Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots (who has evidently been coached to use the phrase “core values” as much as possible) says the tea parties don’t tolerate racist behavior. [Video] Very few of the commenters at CNN are buying this; reactions to Martin’s statement range from fairly ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Bad Craziness, Racism, CNN, Video, Comments
Let’s do a little thought experiment, shall we? Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black. Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that ...
At a tea party in South Carolina over the weekend, former GOP presidential candidate Tom Tancredo said about President Obama: “If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don’t we just send him back?” Absolutely unbelievable. This kind of unabashedly racist rhetoric has become completely open on the right wing: ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, South Carolina, Racism, Bad Craziness, Constitution Party, Tom Tancredo
Make no mistake. Show up at a tea party with signs that say “I Like Ham,” and “Oy! My Bunions!” and you’ll get your ass kicked. [Video]