I don’t think it’ll be too long before the teabaggers go Diane Simmons on us and admit that they just plain don’t like black people.

I don’t think it’ll be too long before the teabaggers go Diane Simmons on us and admit that they just plain don’t like black people.

And Lloyd Marcus and Zo will keep coming back for more.

They’re all unarmed. Wouldn’t this be the smart time to round them up, search their homes and take their stuff?

Can anyone translate “The wear die along the way cowards never start!” on the white van?

And if people were allowed to sleep on The Mall, that’s a fucking first so far as I know.

Have just been advised by the S.O. to wear clothing and shoes that will allow me to run.

TEA PARTIER DECLARES TEA PARTY IMPOSTORS!!!!

I think they are impostors, because a “Real American” would certainly spell Patriots correctly.

It’s just wonderful: organisers tried to head off the obligatory gallery of misspelled placards by squelching the Bagginses’s 1st Amendment rights to carry signs to the rally, but nobody is going to keep them from expressing their ignorance and viciousness on their automobiles—not until the steering wheels are pulled from their cold dead hands!

TEA PARTIER DECLARES TEA PARTY IMPOSTORS!!!!

Source please. I suffer from the confusion.

p.s. Any of you bloggers planning an open thread for this nightmare or should I just turn this into one?

Sorry, Kevin, that was just snarking the photographer’s own Flickr comment on your “Patroits” link. Any misspelled signs or bad behavior will be passed off as Alinsky tactics by infiltrators. Even though it’s obvious that nobody would work so hard to cover the windshield with Beck effluvia, and just barely manage to squeeze in the misspellings, unless that person was a genuine Teastained cretin.

This is even hokier than I imagined it would be.

I have to go water my friend’s yard while he’s prancing about France (yes, we have them in Brooklyn). Please provide play-by-play if you’re watching this on C-Span or streaming it.

I’d rather not be the one, but somebody has to say it: This whole thing is just like Hitler.

PS: I probably won’t have a post up for this until after the burning and looting start. Feel free to keep this one going.

PS: I probably won’t have a post up for this until after the burning and looting start.

PS: I probably won’t have a post up for this until after the burning and looting start. Feel free to keep this one going.

Okay, I made this one sticky. If I’m not around when this travesty is over (read: I’ve probably killed myself), feel free to release it from the stickiness.

Beck has said he will award medals to three “mystery guests.”

One thing before we vamos (no I’m not half the day down there) -

Various media clowns are concern trolling about the potential for a Beck/Sharpton Scuffle and it’s really pissing me off. Sharpton’s event doesn’t kick off until 1 so their wish for a race riot is unlikely to be fulfilled. Fuckers.

Into the abyss!

Men’s chests glowing red = family =

SARAH PALIN

Okay….That was a special intro, Glenn.

This very day, two score and seven years ago

WTF was that? Can stone shudder? Cause I think I saw that.

Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a disciplinary problem who had to join the Army! Yay!

not until the steering wheels are pulled from their cold dead hands chest cavities!

Fixed

This is a very dull affair.

RESTORE AMERICA: THE SCREECHENING is over. Now comes the Great White Hamster to God’s work.

So, no score and four months ago, Glenn booked the joint for a political rally after all!

Then he grabbed his assistant by the lapels, screamed at him, and oh yes, the Purple Heart is the first Merit Badge, and now GLENN is going to decorate Honest Citizens with GlennBag Orders of Merit!

And the winners are…...

I figured it out:

This is The Desiderata for people who own leaf blowers, Slap Chops and the Perry Como Box Collection.

Pastor C. L. Jackson says the woman in the Bible had foot-sex with Jesus and gave him an erection before he died? Am I hearing this right?

Pastor C.L. Jackson, who calls Glenn Beck Son of God!

Who thinks Christ’s feet were kissed by women with “anti-septic mouths.”

Not like, you know, those other women. Who could really use anti-septic mouths.

I figured it out:

This is The Desiderata for people who own leaf blowers, Slap Chops and the Perry Como Box Collection.

That should be acknowledged as comment of the day on every blog in the world.

Anyone else thinking this event as somewhat overhyped?

I’m just surprised that Big Pussy actually appeared in front of the crowd on stage. Usually he hides in his TV studio out of fear of his own fans.

From the Rude Pundit:

Apparently, at the Beckture, Palin’s speech is all about getting soldiers free hugs from Sarah Palin. It’s like a carnival booth.

Lot of people in that crowd gonna be real pissed off when they realize this is just Glenn Beck’s Wet Dream, and the Mother Ship ain’t comin’ today.

Beck’s not so popular not in some parts of Wingnuttia:

Robert Says:
August 28th, 2010 at 7:25 am
Beck is giving the conservatives a bad name. He is mentally ill. I regret that Sarah Palin is appearing in this circus. However, it should be entertaining… in a morbid way, especially the Sharpton vs Beck sideshow.

Rude says it better than I did:

There better be, like, Nancy Pelosi fighting a bear at the end of this, ‘cause if I had traveled across the USA for this, I’d be pissed.

Well, they got their Sarah on, but she got in and got out, the energy level has dropped to Memorial Day in Akron level, and now they’re entirely mischaracterizing MLK! Did smarmee announcer just intone that he saw the world in black and white? Did I imagine that?

Look—it’s the {ML) King Family Christmas Special.

MORE ICE SKATERS, PLEASE!

Not a whole lot out of DuhJan so far. I think they probably had to carry him off in a fitting frothing frenzy after he declared “This is very mych [sic] a Palin 2012 rally. You betcha.” only to find her 15 minutes didn’t even stretch to that.

I just hope he didn’t utter his earlier Twat out loud, or he may have been run out of town on a rail and we’ll hear no more till the autopsy:

Great Merciful Zeus…crowd so big it completely surrounds enture [sic] reflecting pool down to WWII memorial.
about 3 hours ago via mobile web

Zeus? Don’t think Snooki would approve.

And now it’s time for MLK’s niece! I wonder how his daughters are taking it? Thank heaven nobody ever interviewed my nutty cousins about my father’s life.

rudepundit   There’s so many more black people on stage than white people and so many more whites than blacks watching, it’s got a Cotton Club vibe

I hope the 99.999% white audience enjoys the tunes

Yeah, well, this is pretty much what Woodstock would have looked like if the headliners had been Donovan, the Hello People and the guy who washes Ravi Shankar’s sari.

I hope they lay off the brown acid or the Metro lines are going to be a right old mess.

This is very mych [sic] a Palin 2012 rally. You betcha.” only to find her 15 minutes didn’t even stretch to that.

Guaranteed that Melvin has left the building, and is now sucking down cocktails somewhere. He isn’t even listening to how he is threatening the bulwark of our society from Alveda “Procreative Marriages Only” King!

Alveda’s invoking the dream in her genes.

ATTENTION “RESTORING HONOR” ATTENDEES:

REMEMBER—ONCE THE PRESENTATION IS OVER, JUST TELL THEM YOU’VE DECIDED YOU DON’T WANT TO BUY THE CONDO. THEY STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR YOUR AIR FARE AND GIVE YOU THE GIFT.

Will_Bunch   Alveda cries “uncle”

Over five hundred thousand, Glenn Beck says. Now he’s going to apply the Defibrillator Paddles of God to the nation’s testicles, and we can look to the stars!

George Washington was a general! And he gave his life to the American Experiment!

Man can rule himself!—I see where this is going. IT. SHALL. NOT. END. HERE. IT. WON’T. END. NOW.

Here is the Big Surprise—Glenn has some bodily fluids left to squeeze out through his eyeballs!

Did the statue of Lincoln just make a fist?

I swear I heard metal and stone grinding.

Please Glenn, don’t make me hate the Gettysburg Address.

Beck has turned the Gettysburg Address into the Babblehymn of the Teapublic.

Why is he talking about fish sticks?

Get the Poison of Hatred out! No matter what the liars and smearers say! We even had a Democrat up here, but I can’t tell you who because of the great personal risk!

Democrats will persue the quisling and tear her/him apart with their fangs!

But Glenn doesn’t believe himself to be a fearmonger—(can’t say Obama, but you know very well who) is a Soshalist Iceberg!

BTW, the other rally is scheduled for 1, and it’s now 12:38.

Did the statue of Lincoln just make a fist?

Everybody hated that guy on the Titanic who yelled “Iceberg!”

Blindfolded fear does not lead to an awakening. But driving Muslim citizens out of your neighborhood on a pretext of hurt feelings sure perks a person up!

I’m thinking this is Beck’s “Al Capone’s Vault” moment.

He’ll always have the sound of his own voice through many loudspeakers, JUST like MLK’s! Or Lou Gehrig’s! Or any tinpot dictator you care to name!

We’re pledging our lives, fortunes, and sacred honors together again. Oh, and Glenn tithes only 10% of that Goldline gelt? What a piker!

Insist your church, temple, or MOSQUE, stand for thing you know are true. Which is that the Black-Robed Regiment is at it again—-

Activist judges?

BTW, Glenn has declared himself a no-fly zone.
It’s time to put the nation’s heart where it belongs!! Aztec style, I’m thinking.

Seal our children in clay pots!

I believe I may still have a Rumtopf container somewhere. But will it really tenderize my child? Wardenclyffe is somewhat stringy.

Rude Pundit’s keen to get to a bar:

It’s after 1 p.m. Isn’t this supposed to be over? Can Obama send in cops now? Maybe some fire hoses to give ‘em the MLK experience?
less than 20 seconds ago via web

Bagpipes!

That’s how they’ll clear the Mall. Ingenious.

Bring out the bagpipes!

The Great White Haggis has concluded!

National Parks groundskeepers reported that no matter how they tried, they could not eradicate a mysterious, lingering scent of Vapo-Rub from the steps of the Memorial.

I did not think anybody could make me long for Jerry Lewis.

rudepundit   Just so’s you know: Beck is repeating the same story, sobbing in the same place, as he did at his show last night. Long live the Beckture.
1 minute ago via web
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rudepundit   Beck is now repeating something he said last night about needing money. And asking God for it. Let’s see if he cries again.
2 minutes ago via web

I missed the damned thing.  What was “the miracle”?

What was “the miracle”?

Well, it didn’t rain, but mysteriously, the pool water level is now 6 inches higher than it was last night.

What was “the miracle”?

That something this horrible was allowed to happen.

Now that I think about it, it struck me, this is about legitimizing their movement in the face of national media other than the corrupt FOX News. This is about overriding the accusations of racism, xenophobia, muslim hatred etc. By having a rather plain rally at a historical site on the anniversary of the civil rights march of MLK, they are really co-opting the glory off of it by not carrying any signs or such. I guess even Beck and the other folks on the stage didn’t make political comments just to hide their intentions in plain view. Now any further accusations about them would be waived off. Someone is really pulling out some great scripts out there among the wingnut consultants.
The democrats better counter this, otherwise it’s not going to look good.

One of the problems Democrats have is relatively sane constituents. Being able to rally thousands of people on no very great pretext in August in DC is an advantage I suspect Beck will continue to have.

Horrible thought: what if he tries going after Jerry Lewis’s crown and makes this an annual event?

Now any further accusations about them would be waived off.

Well, they can try, of course. An appearance of legitimacy at the cost of those precious First Amendment rights through the ban on placards at the rally seems a pretty high price.

Even without the signs there were enough dog whistles to pick up on. Beck called for the Black Robe Brigade to rise up.

The BRB is a real organization that advocates a violent civil war to establish a theocratic government.

I am trying to find coverage of the Bachmann rally today.

The democrats better counter this

I call this quote “roshan’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.”

I call this quote “roshan’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.”

Why?

And if people were allowed to sleep on The Mall, that’s a fucking first so far as I know.

I’m seeing this too—claims that people were camping out on the Mall at 3 AM.  I had no idea that this was allowed.  And I can only imagine what the place looks like now.

Why?

Sorry, I forgot sarcasm doesn’t translate—see, Democrats have such a great track record in this regard, I was being playfully ironic by suggesting that perhaps roshan was setting him- or herself up for disappointment.

Shoulda gone with the other “counter” joke, but tying Graeme Frost in seemed kinda circuitous.

Oh, sarcasm translates just fine.

But after 30-odd years of attending demos, I’m still processing the spectacle of righties putting themselves through minor hell to stand around bored shitless for a few hours at an overhyped event that’ll change precisely nothing, so my neurons are kinda oversaturated.

Excellent and entertaining thread, including links.  Thanks to all of you.

That Pickle truck is actually from my town, it belongs to the guy who runs a bar called the Pickle (Without a doubt the worst bar in town).  They run some dumbass thing on Wednesdays that if you wear a shirt with that slogan you get free beer from 9-12, they call it “Patriotic Wednesdays” and claim its for the troops.  I still can’t figure out in which way they are helping any of the troops, but the people in that place aren’t very bright.

I still can’t figure out in which way they are helping any of the troops, but the people in that place aren’t very bright.

.00000000001% of the proceeds go to buy the owner a new Support Our Troops magnet.

the spectacle of righties putting themselves through minor hell to stand around bored shitless

Y’know, I’m not sure they find it boring or hellish. I suspect this is the most fun a sizeable portion of them will ever have, and for me that pretty mush dashes the whole recognizing-our-common-humanity thing.

The good news is, their side hasn’t done any better than ours at learning one of the crucial lessons of the civil rights era: when you’re going for visibility, fucking dress like it. I was initially worried about a Looking Like Shit gap but apparently the siren call of the unflattering shorts/fannypack combo knows no ideology.

I’m not sure they find it boring or hellish

Even if they did, they’re too invested to ever admit it was like watching Fulton J. Sheen guest-hosting “Queen for a Day.” If anyone asks, they will tell you it was the most TOTALLY TRANSFORMATIVE THREE HOURS OF UPLIFT this side of the Mount of Olives.

Oh, it’s “The WEAK die along the way.”

Oh, it’s “The WEAK die along the way.”

Yeah, those patroits really HATED that car. They called it a “coward” for not starting, and “weak” for breaking down along the way.

$300 for a decent alternator could have saved those cheap bastards a shitload of righteous indignation. But, hey—Freedom Isn’t Free.