New compare-and-contrast mini-roundup at PJM:
Searchlight vs. L.A.: Rival Rallies Reveal Stark Right/Left Divide.
Time to choose your bedfellows.
Short version:
Searchlight right-wingers:
Los Angeles left-wingers:
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1CattusMagnus on Mar 29, 2010 at 12:27 pm:
The most obvious difference between the two groups? Smiles.
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2ECM on Mar 29, 2010 at 1:05 pm:
Yes, smiles and the desire to kill Jews.
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3Dianna on Mar 29, 2010 at 1:30 pm:
No, it couldn’t be clearer.
BTW, my first reaction to the elderly couple with the Che banner was, “Oh, please! Have some dignity!”
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4Ringo the Gringo on Mar 29, 2010 at 6:09 pm:
Sorry my website always crashes…I post too many pictures so that I won’t be accused of posting only 2 or 3 egregious images and misrepresenting the overall tone of the demonstration. That’s why I always post more than a hundred pictures. That way people can see that what I show is representative of the protest as a whole.
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5Beckaholic on Mar 29, 2010 at 8:12 pm:
Hey Ringo- No worries! Your effort shows and is very much appreciated! You too, Zombmeister, as always.
Wow- A cutie with “I want my country free” vs. “Nueter all the filthy Jews”
No effin’ contest.
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6CattusMagnus on Mar 29, 2010 at 10:43 pm:
Zombie,
Off topic, but, have you seen these videos of Yuri Bezmenov? I’m not sure why I have the urge to point them out to you but it’s fascinating stuff.
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7Stone K on Mar 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm:
Do my eyes deceive me? But I am pretty sure I spotted a few Latinos,African American and Asian faces in the “tea-party” crowd… But Keith olberman and msnbc tell me its only while homophobes who show up to these things… you sure you didn’t doctor the pics?
=P
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8Render on Mar 30, 2010 at 3:01 am:
I wonder if that POS in the Falcons hat realizes that the Atlanta Falcons are owned by a Jew? Or that 6-2, 293lb Falcons Center Brett Romberg is Jewish?
Igor Olshansky 6-6, 309lb Defensive End of the Dallas Cowboys is also Jewish.
So is 6-2, 266lb professional wrestler/former NFL player Bill Goldberg.
Neuter them first.
WAITING,
R
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9Starless on Mar 30, 2010 at 4:29 am:
I really hope the guy in the first picture in El Marco’s photo essay is wearing pants under that paper barrel.
No, the pics aren’t doctored. Instead, as has been scientifically documented by Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Janeane Garafalo, et al, the people of color you are seeing are self-haters. As are all of the women.
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10Josephine on Mar 31, 2010 at 5:44 pm:
Excellent work, Zombie! Thank you!
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11Ringo the Gringo on Apr 1, 2010 at 1:59 pm:
I just started a Facebook page for my website, Ringo’s Pictures. Please become a fan:
Thanks.
Ringo
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12Starless on Apr 1, 2010 at 2:57 pm:
I would, Ringo, but I refuse to join any social networking sites in the first place.
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13Ringo the Gringo on Apr 1, 2010 at 3:40 pm:
Starless,
I don’t blame you, they are pretty lame.
Of course you can always join under a fake name (like, Starless Jones) and no one will ever know.
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14Starless on Apr 2, 2010 at 4:51 am:
Hehe. That’s true. OTOH, every time I imagine participating in one of those sites I think of all of the gigabits of traffic and storage eaten up because some people think that the mundane details of their lives are so important to anyone other than themselves that they need to create posts for them. That thought always turns me off.
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15Dianna on Apr 2, 2010 at 2:34 pm:
I am so relieved to read that!
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16Starless on Apr 3, 2010 at 4:13 am:
LOL. I’m not sure how to take that.
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17Barackstar on Apr 3, 2010 at 11:52 am:
i think grow fins from hot air got an orgasm at the bottom pic
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18Blazer on Apr 4, 2010 at 10:56 am:
I am shocked, shocked I tell you to find out there is racism and and anti-semitism on the left.
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19Bakunin on Apr 4, 2010 at 1:00 pm:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/
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20Bakunin on Apr 4, 2010 at 1:00 pm:
Of course you forgot these fellows:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/slideshows/searchlight/ZZ2F9F70CB.jpg
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/slideshows/searchlight/ZZ6AE42B86.jpg
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/slideshows/searchlight/ZZ712DB7CC.jpg
Oath Keepers: Far Right Militia group
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/slideshows/searchlight/ZZ17A0FCCE.jpg
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21zombie on Apr 4, 2010 at 5:00 pm:
19 Bakunin
I saw that a few days ago. Not a bad collection, though nothing as classic as “Get a Brain, MORANS!”
Of course, I spent years documenting endless illiterate misspellings on leftists signs, like in this mini-essay:
“Down with Literacy!”
The truth is, somewhere around 50% of Americans are illiterate, sub-literate, or slightly-less-literate than they ought to be. And that applies to all political and social categories. Get a group of people together, liberal/conservative/you-name-it, and odds are half of them don’t fully know how to spell. Since a substantial portion of signs at anti-war/etc. rallies contain typos/misspellings, and since the existence of bad spelling doesn’t really prove any meaningful point, I simply stopped posting them or featuring them prominently after a while. But buried in my archives of unused photos are, in addition to the hundreds of boo-boos I’ve featured, thousands more examples of illiteracy.
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22Starless on Apr 5, 2010 at 3:29 am:
Drive down commercial sectors of any town, look at signs which are changed on a regular basis and you’ll see a long string of grammar and spelling gaffes. The most common offense being apostrophe misapplication. You’d think that a population which can learn and retain minute details about sports statistics and the lives of celebrities could also understand something as simple as the differences between possessives, plurals, and contractions.
Non-grammarian Tea Party article: a riposte to the MSM’s narrative.
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23Bakunin on Apr 5, 2010 at 8:17 am:
22zombie
it’s not so much the spelling, but also the message where the spelling is wrong. Half of the signs that are misspelled are anti-immigrant/English-only (which is not only ironic, but also speaks to the underling racism that fuels the hardcore teabaggers).
Case in point:
“Obama my forefathes were christian yours were from kenya that explains a lot about you”
Essentially the “go back to Africa” style racism, mixed in with the “Obama is a sekret Moslem” meme (note that 57 percent of Republicans (and 32 percent of people overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim when he is not).
“Obama lier in chief got a birth certificate?”
“Obamanism socialism islamofacism not american values”
“Obama is a sekret Moslem” mixed with “Obama is a communist”.
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24sarainitaly on Apr 6, 2010 at 3:40 am:
Congrats on this:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/05/critics-extreme-tea-parties-little-threatening-bush-bashers/?test=latestnews
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25Starless on Apr 6, 2010 at 4:26 am:
Still pushing that bullshit online Harris poll, I see. Here’s another poll — somehow I doubt we’ll be hearing Katie Couric, Keith Oblermann, Chris Matthews, and yourself quoting this one as gospel because, you know, it doesn’t cast Tea Partiers as racist wingnuts.
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26شات كتابي on Sep 27, 2010 at 11:48 am:
i think grow fins from hot air got an orgasm at the bottom pic
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