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MSNBC reports that there were upwards of 300 people in this rowdy mob, shouting racist slogans and disrupting businesses.
Just kidding, I’d sooner take out my own appendix with a rusty razorblade than watch that sorry band of sick sycophants.
Sure;but they are all, well, white…so it doesn’t count.
This is the “few thousand people”, right?
Can any serious person use the words “professional” and “journalist” in the same sentence anymore?!?
Glenn Beck is the de facto leader of the opposition to the Obama administration and the Democrats in congress.
The RNC should take a hard fast lesson from him if they want to balance out power at the next election.
It would be nice to get a plane photo & grid the population there.
One thing the MSM did do, was muddy all information to confuse folks.
Nice PhotoShop job there.
Klan rally.
Crowd? Pshaw. Why you get more people strolling along the creek through Saskatoon on a Saturday night, or so I’m told.
Revnant Dream and everyone else, modern metropolitan police agencies have methodologies, somewhat akin to scientifically done poll samplings, to estimate the sizes of large crowd or other public outdoor gatherings with high accuracy.
In the case of the Washington DC Police Department, they stopped doing this after all the heat they got from Farrakhan & friends after the so-called “Million Man March” a few years back. The Police Dept’s actual scientifically determined number (with it’s small +/- figure) was WAY lower than the so-called million attendees Farrakhan & friends had claimed.
Naturally, Farrakhan & friends then claimed “RACISM” on the part of the DC Police Dept. The Farrakhan crowd never explained a racist motive for that but given that the Police Chief at the time and a large percentage of the force are black, the charge was pretty obviously ridiculous.
After all the heat the Washington PD got from the leftist “I’m a VICTIM” crowd, they made a policy change to stop estimating the size of public gatherings. Another victory for leftist Political Correctness.
“Klan rally.”
Lately I’ve started to enjoy comments like this. For years liberals had one card to play and it always worked. Unfortunately for them, now they scream and wave the race card and it just doesn’t work. Even better, their constant insults have actually produced a backlash among citizens who don’t really enjoy being trashed because they disagree with a president. But they’re too stupid to stop.
Lately I’ve started to enjoy comments like this. For years liberals had one card to play and it always worked. Unfortunately for them, now they scream and wave the race card and it just doesn’t work. Even better, their constant insults have actually produced a backlash among citizens who don’t really enjoy being trashed because they disagree with a president. But they’re too stupid to stop.
Yes. Years of calling your opponents “racist” (or “bigoted” or “sexist” or “homophobes”) when they actually have legitimate, reasoned arguments for not embracing liberalism (or, in this case, supporting the President’s destined-to-fail policies) gets tiresome after a while.
It’s like the Boy Who Cried Wolf. You can only call people who aren’t really racists “racists” so many times before the word begins to lose all meaning.
Which takes away the only weapon liberals had: name-calling. They can’t debate us on anything substantive, so they hope calling us something reprehensible will shut us up so they can have their way…
Not any more, apparently.
Re: Beck and the constant innuendo there are crazier people out there than himself. Yes that’s a given.
However, Beck is a chronic political spastic (imposter?) in the vein of Bill Maher. His nutty demeanor has all the signs of being induced by long term prescription drug use/abuse.
He’s first and foremost an actor in the info-tainment industry of cable news – and he’s a poor one. He plays a libertarian centrist populist to his audience but supports every elitist ruling class agenda and statist thuggery of the belt line power cliques. Some populist.
Shovel Beck in the same pile with Maher, Hannity and the other partisan poseurs who shill for the DC power elite.
Nice try Jim. It’s painfully obvious that you didn’t provide any factual backup for your argument. Just name-calling.
He denounced O bama’s spending but was all for the Wall street bail outs. Do your own research.
Well.It is obvious that the 1.2 to 2 million estimates are fairly correct. Why? Just look at all(well 2,diff names)the trolls screaming racist and everything else except facts and logic.They really have taken any bite out of the word racist anymore,except for metro-sexuals and whoring racebaiters.See? They have done us a favour again.
Beck? Shill for DC power elite?
Never watched the show eh?
I get such a kick out of comments like those of red and tom, that I almost think that they are put there by conservative commenters just to cheer us up.
Beck? Shill for DC power elite?
– Yep!
Never watched the show eh?
– Enough to see through the Posing
Are GOP partisans so desperate for leadership they’d follow some cable TV poser?
red and tom come here to find out what is going on. Even people on the left like to see the truth from time to time and they aren’t finding it anywhere else.
Jim says “Are GOP partisans so desperate for leadership they’d follow some cable TV poser?”
There seems to be a lot of Democrat partisans so desperate for leadership that they follow Obama.
What would be great sport is to see a debate between Beck and Obama. Obama would be a quivering mass of unhappy nerve endings on the floor. Obama is an empty suit reading a teleprompter…..an embarrassment, really.
Who, exactly, are these DC “power elite” that Beck shills for?
Oh, and still waiting on some proof of your claim that he is a drug addict.
Libel and slander have always been the first tools of choice for elected leftist dimwits and their hangers on. Along with carefully hiding their assets in case they are sued.
Glenn “the university of I don’t remember” Beck and Sarah “death panel” Palin, small dead heroes.
The angry right fringe is really going places.
Jim:
I have watched Beck since he was on CNN.
He will readily admit he has ADD, was a former alcoholic and rodeo clown.
When I first started watching, he was slamming the Bush administration pretty hard.
One of his favourite quotes was: ‘It’s no longer about right vs. left; it’s about right vs wrong.”
He has little admiration for either mainstream political party and has said on more than one occasion that they do not speak for “We the People.”
It seems to me he’s tapped into something in the American psyche that a growing number of Canadians admire.
He believes the political class has lost touch with the common man who, under the US Consititution, is the boss due to inherent God-given rights present in every human being.
Bush and Obama should be working FOR the people, not the other way around.
Outspoken personalities like Beck were ‘re-educated’ in the former Soviet Union, after they were deemed crazy for believing individual is the best qualfied to spend his own money and raise his own children.
It’s apparently difficult for those of your ilk to understand this is not about repeating the mantra of your particular political party leadership’s viewpoint.
This is about taking back your freedom.
If you prefer to slavishly follow any charismatic leader, go for it. Just leave the rest of us who love to make our own decisions out of it.
Feeling a little scared Jim and pillboy?
It’s showing.
Oh! Oh! You-know-who has shown up with the rest of the trolls on this thread. Let’s just hope ET doesn’t go all nutsy and start feeding him.
Why do you come here philboy? Go back to the circle jerk on the left wing blogs.
I have said this before, I personally don’t like Beck and don’t watch his show. What Beck is doing is just tapping a groundswell. The groundswell is there, Beck or no Beck. I think that Rush is a leader, and so is Sarah Palin.
I really wish that Palin had spoken at 9-12. This would have been impossible to ignore. I am not sure, after seeing the amateur hour in the WH these many months, that she is ready for the big job either, but she is a leader, without doubt.
This is a couple days old, but good.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/09/14/they-re-just-baiting-glenn-beck-with-this-one.aspx
[quote]Why you get more people strolling along the creek through Saskatoon on a Saturday night[/quote] John
It’s not a numbers game.. Those PLL represent the wealth (55 Plus) & the moral, ethical foundation of 95% of American citizens….
You must think that numbers made up of Acorn, unemployable, Union members, are not a COST (high maintenance) factor on the economy
It’s not just by Chance that the Communists target the elderly. Destroy wealth (Pay for Medicare “again”), Destroy the transfer of wealth (inheritance).
and not one arrest!
And they didn’t leave a big mess, unlike the night O was coronated.
Why do you come here philboy?
To find out what the yahoos are thinking.
I heard on Beck’s radio show that he has an interview with Obama next week….imagine the ratings for that one!
For every person there there was probably another 50 who wished they could be there.
Beck is doing a great job exposing Obummer for the liar and the Marxist that he is.
“To find out what the yahoos are thinking.”
Posted by: philboy
We thought you were a dork til you opened your mouth. Now we know for certain.
The fringe media,NYT,CNN,MSNBC et al,can continue to spread their disinformation to their misinformed and dwindling audience. It doesn’t change the actual numbers who did show up, who they are or what their motivations were. The groundswell of discontent is there and growing.
Actually, the estimate is now over 1.2 million. And its not a photo shop. I was there.
This represents Americans who hate that the governemnt is spending money like crazy and trying to steal personal freedoms. If you have a problem with that, gfy.
Consider the following, philboy:
“Barack “uh, umm, er, um” Obama and Joe “Stand up for Chuck” Biden, KOS-heroes.
The angry left MAINSTREAM is really going places.”
See? Simply change a few of your words and the emptiness of your contribution is very apparent. Why don’t you participate in the conversation here with something of substance…not just empty name-calling? You’re welcome to.
I suspect, however, you are simply unable to provide substance or facts…just name-calling and snark. Ah, if only we were as enlightened as you and not redneck troglodytes, right?
Beck’s got one thing right, it ain’t the Main-Stream-Media anymore, it’s the Fringe-Media now. Their ratings numbers are in the tank.
For you Obabots may I recommend a lil reading; Homage to Catalonia.
When the Media will openly lie for the Elites in Power there is nothing left but revolution.*
*Standing Wolf.
Lauren:
According to philboy, the self-defined smartest man on this blog (who’s here to read what the yahoos are up to), you can’t believe your lying eyes.
Tim in Vermont
I find watching Beck a little disconcerting (where Rush is too bombastic, Beck is overly intense bordering on emotional breakdown mode) but agree with their work and that he is on a huge roll. Palin, though I would have preferred her over her running mate as President, would have “republicanized” the Tea Party premise which includes disaffected Dems and Independents. The Republicans have yet to clean house and find leadership.
We may be yahoos philboy but at least we are thinking yahoos.
We may be yahoos philboy but at least we are thinking yahoos.
I think, therefore I am.
“Why do you come here philboy?
To find out what the yahoos are thinking”
What have the voices stopped in your head again?
Are GOP partisans so desperate for leadership they’d follow some cable TV poser?
No more desperate than liberals who followed the poser currently residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
working the list
It’s only the beginning. We will trash that list starting at the 2010 mid terms.
Would it not be handy, for estimating crowd sizes and that sort of thing, for everyone in the USA to have a RFD implanted on them so that a satellite could just scan any crowd and get an accurate estimate? So much debate over an issue that modern technology could solve.
Um, people, although it may be fun to engage in discussions with some particular posters, please, shhhhhhh.
“To find out what the yahoos are thinking”
THEN, you can take a position.
Not before torrets-boy.
Don’t bother coming by tomorrow we’ll be for standing and you can continue on your knees.