{"id":8777,"date":"2010-02-21T19:19:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T00:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8777"},"modified":"2010-02-21T19:54:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T00:54:31","slug":"dear-libs-stay-classy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8777","title":{"rendered":"Dear Libs: Stay Classy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s become a media meme in recent years; grassroots conservative activists are crude, inarticulate, ignorant and prone to outbursts of anger.<\/p>\n

Reality shows quite the opposite, of course; from the SEIU thugs beating the guy at the Carnahan Town Hall into the hospital to the whinging infants who threw bricks and bleach during the Saint Paul Republican National Convention, the left has the genuinely checkered record.<\/p>\n

Sad to say, today’s Franken rally in Minneapolis was no exception.<\/p>\n

Early in the rally, a guy carrying a “Teamster for Conservatism” stood at the entrance to the parking lot at the rally site (the Labor Temple, in northeast Minneapolis).\u00a0 I never did get his name.<\/p>\n

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He was standing on the curb next to the driveway.\u00a0 One of the attendees in a Toyota apparently saw him, yelled something, and gunned his engine, forcing the protester to get out of the way.\u00a0 The driver parked in the parking lot and went into the rally – but the protester and a couple of witnesses got the license number and called the police.\u00a0 When the rally ended, the Minneapolis Police – who’d been waiting around the event – pulled him over.\u00a0 Nobody was hurt, and there were no charges to place, but the cops did <\/em>give the little fella a good talking to, and then made him shake hands with the protester.<\/p>\n

As I noted in my previous post on the subject<\/a>, there weren’t many pro-Obama counterprotesters.\u00a0 They were pretty standard-issue stuff; not very articulate, not very well-informed, and pretty harmless.<\/p>\n

This guy was both of the above – but he brought an element of stupid to the proceedings that livened things up for all of us.\u00a0 We noticed him when he stood on one of the corners across from the Temple, bellowing “Teabaggers!\u00a0 Teabaggersj!” over and over again.<\/p>\n

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That’s a spine.\u00a0 With a couple of putative testicles, ready for “Teabagging”, which the protester (whose name we got, but which I’ll keep offline) had helpfully affixed. (Because we have all been assured that when lefties yell about “Teabaggers”, they’re referring to the people who sent bags of Lipton to Congress.\u00a0 Of course).<\/p>\n

As I noted in my previous post (“It’s Fun Being Outside The Alamo For A Change<\/a>“), not only is it fun outnumbering the other guys out on the streets for the first time I can remember – but I hate to think what it’s like for the lefties being stuck inside <\/em>the Alamo with some of these whackdoodles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s become a media meme in recent years; grassroots conservative activists are crude, inarticulate, ignorant and prone to outbursts of anger. Reality shows quite the opposite, of course; from the SEIU thugs beating the guy at the Carnahan Town Hall into the hospital to the whinging infants who threw bricks and bleach during the Saint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8782,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions\/8782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}