One More Thing …

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Did you know there was a contingent of Occupy protesters in Tampa last week? No, I didn’t either. Thank goodness.

Just imagine if the protesters had acted up enough to draw attention away from the goings on in the convention center. It would have helped the Republicans by distracting the public from GOP weirdness and made Republicans look more sympathetic.

I say again, when the opposition is voluntarily making a fool of himself in public, stay out of the bleeping way.

21 thoughts on “One More Thing …”

  2. “It would have helped the Republicans by distracting the public from GOP weirdness and made Republicans look more sympathetic”

    To whom? Do you really think any positive protest would be covered?

    I didn’t watch Clint’s performance, but I wonder was it as weird as this?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO9Y4qG1Lx0

    Give it a few seconds, it’s funny!

  3. Oh, any reporter in the MSM would have loved to switch over from “Lie-apaloosa” to the DFH’s banging drums!

    Who wouldn’t rather cover a drum circle, than a circle-jerk?

    And both have giant puppets.
    It’s just that the Occupy puppets are harmless.

    But yeah, maha, better they stayed under the media’s radar.
    They’d have loved nothing more than some excuse to make this look like Chicago in ’68 – but THIS time, make it a HUGE deal that the DFH’s were against the OTHER party, instead of their own.

    If they can find an Occupy group in Charlotte, you can bet they’ll be all over it. They love to cover stories about dissention in the nation – but only when it affects the Democrats.
    Armed white supremacists in the military plotting to kill the Democratic President? Ho-hum.
    But don’t you DARE look at Ronnie, Papa and Baby Doc Bush’s, the wrong way, or there was hell to pay.

    I’m already worried, as I said in a comment here yesterday, about the backlash from having to admit that the Republicans were lying.
    They’d love any reason to beat on the Democrats, like they were a drum.

  4. I think the Democrats will tolerate dissent more than the Republicans would have done, so likely there will be more of it. The Republicans won’t change their minds if they have already converted to Mitturday Aints, so no losses. The low-information voters who are swayable won’t know it happened, the Fox-watching “independents” don’t matter as swayable, so as long as it is somewhat civil dissent, OK. Now if it gets all gassy and batonny, that will be a problem.

  5. You are too hard on OWS. They put “1%-er” into the national vocabulary and they are the ONLY populist movement we’ve seen in America since Viet Nam.

    • You are too hard on OWS. They put “1%-er” into the national vocabulary and they are the ONLY populist movement we’ve seen in America since Viet Nam.

      I think you’re giving them way too much credit by calling them a “populist movement.” They’re more of an anti-movement that was (less so now) sucking up a lot of energy and attention that might have been given to a movement. IMO one of the reasons the Left can’t sustain a real populist movement is that too much of the Left mistakes a bunch of directionless demonstrations for a movement.

  7. maha,
    I think you might get a kick out of this – iconic NY stuff.

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/02/nyregion/a-history-of-new-york-in-50-objects.html#/?gridItem=all

    I don’t see a couple of things that we should see:
    A dirty water dog (that’s a hotdog from a street vender, for you non-NYers).
    A sewer alligator.*
    A subway token – they have the Metrocard instead. Feh!
    And a sewer/subway rat the size of a Volkswagon.**

    *What’s history without at least one myth?
    **Ok – a slight exaggeration. But only slight. maha will back me up on this.

    • There are indeed rodents of unusual size in the NY Subway system. But of the historical objects, I’m not getting the artichoke.

  8. Any news out of the Chicago action, where Occupy-ers were going to burn their voter cards in front of Obama headquarters because Holder — I’m guessing — or some damned thing?

    So far as I know access in IL’s pretty normal. No Maine-Minnesota-style same-day registration, but there’s no move afoot in IL to restrict voting, either. What’s the local-law angle? And though it’s a deep-blue place, I’m sure there’s some Republican presence there where one could hold a demonstration.

  9. Yeah, me neither.
    And it was dated as 1933.
    What do artichokes and NY and 1933 have in common?

    The only thing I could find on the GoogleTube was this:
    http://www.amazon.com/Aginara-Artichoke/dp/B0029P7ODA

    Maybe in the Depression era, Greek folk clarinet music was much bigger than I ever thought.

    Or ever heard of, since I never knew there was ever any such a thing as Greek folk clarinet music.
    Who knew?

    Maybe the tunes were so catchy, that the subway rats were whistling the tunes while they carrying-off the infant children of recent immigrants.

    Does ANYONE have any clue what the hell NY, artichokes, and 1933, really have in common?

  12. This is a little off topic. It’s one of those stories that makes one wonder if Todd Akins claim that a raped woman really does have the ability to “shut the whole thing down”. I only say that because the story linked below defies my understanding of possibility. I understand that as we age we develop what is refered to as onion skin( loss of fatty tissue). But this story is bizzare. POP!
    http://now.msn.com/woman-castrates-man-with-her-bare-hands

  16. Covering protesters would have diluted the illusion of “unity” the Republicans were attempting to project. The MSM obliged. You can bet that the media will be all over any protesters at the Democratic convention, however.

    • Covering protesters would have diluted the illusion of “unity” the Republicans were attempting to project.

      “Attempting” is the operative word here; they failed. If the MSM had chosen to cover the RNC protests, the failure may have been less apparent to those watching at home. It would have given the GOP butt-cover.

      There are many times demonstrations can help stir things up that need to be stirred. But when things are already stirred, sometimes it’s better to hang back and let karma run its course. This RNC convention was the sloppiest and most dismal convention I have seen since watching conventions. And my memory goes back to the days when the major players at the RNC included Everett Dirksen.

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