(05-04-2010 01:18 AM)RobertN Wrote: (05-03-2010 10:26 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote: I felt my IQ drop rapidly as I breezed through those photos.
I'll never get those few seconds of my life back that I spent reading the protestor's sign comparing (evidently Holocaust) Jews to illegal immigrants. I don't even know where to begin on that one.
I do understand that photographers at any protest will snap the most obscene and outrageous shots for some "shock value". So we'll always get a glimpse of the worst. But the sense of self-entitlement that permeates any Left-sponsored march is astounding.
As did mine when with the tea-baggers signs. I think it is funny though, you had NO problem with the tea-baggers with nazi and other racist/violent signs. Looks like some people have thin skin. Having said that, that sign with the guy asking for all the free stuff is pretty embarassing.
LOL. Evidently you missed those threads where I said that
every politically-charged protest by nature - including Tea Parties - will draw a handful of loons out of the woodwork.
The difference here is this, Robert: "Protests" populated with leftists so frequently spiral into
real violence, looting and property damage (two such recent examples
here and
here) yet somehow all miraculously slip under the media radar. Meanwhile, the popular meme out there is how violent and out-of-control Tea Parties are, even though there's been nothing beyond an alleged spit and slur by a couple nuts.
So when politicians, their sympathetic media columnists and the likes of Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow crack wise about how (gasp!) "scary violent" the Tea Parties are based on a very few signs, I'll find myself defending those rallies a bit more.
Oh, and if you found a photo of a pro-nazi sign somewhere at a Tea Party, please post it in this thread. And make sure it's authentic and not a plant by some Oregon public school teacher trying to enact a smear campaign.