Most of those are fairly benign (“Sarah Palin is a cunt” Boo fucking hoo), others are tongue in cheek. I can’t tell the provenence of any of them (I’m not even sure they’re all from the US). They are also exceptions rather than the rule. “Bush=Hitler” is not a sentiment that was being promoted in the media. That kind of horseshit is mainstream on the right.
How were they any more grass roots? You are forgetting all the huge anti-war protests organized by left wing groups like Ramsey Clark’s socialist group ANSWER with all their Workers World Party retreads. Doesn’t mean the people protesting were any less serious in their anti-war beliefs. But, it shows you that there HAS to be some organizing to put together a protest.
And you’d find only a very few people there who even knew what a Trotskyite is.
What’s so hard to understand about protesting a march to war based on lies? Does it require being ordered by the Central Committee of The Left, via subliminal messages transmitted by Rachel Maddow’s eyebrows or something?
What’s your point? I didn’t claim that the protesters were any less sincere or even knew who was behind the organization.
What’s so hard to understand about protesting a quadrupling of the deficit and the government trying to nationalize multiple industries? Does it require being ordered by the Central Committee of The Right, via subliminal messages transmitted by Glenn Beck’s eyebrows or something?
What’s *your *point in bringing it up? :dubious: Just another desperately failed tu quoque?
What’s so hard to understand about why that wasn’t being protested the last 8 years when all that was actually happening?
What’s so hard to understand about an alleged “fair and balanced” “news” organization actually creating and promoting the very events they are purporting to cover?
What’s so hard to understand about their lying grandiosely about something so simple as the attendance there, in an attempt to be able to claim it’s actually a grassroots movement and not a ratings-pumpup stunt?
Regarding double standards, I think it’s also worth noting that the right wing absolutely pounced on demonstrations (and reactions to them) that didn’t even remotely approach the magnitude of what we’re seeing with the anti-Obama rhetoric. Remember that utterly benign pro-McCain demonstration on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that was pointed to as an illustration of the depravity and ruthlessness of liberals because a few people said, “Boo, McCain” and said “No, thank you” to McCain t-shirts?
What “organization” did you see in them? Hell, what awareness did you see among any of the millions upon millions of participants of those people’s role, to the extent that there was any? And what difference would it have made anyway?
