And they didn’t. They could have made a statement or an effort to distance themselves from this sort of nut jobs, but they didn’t.
But they don’t do anything to distance themselves at all.
It THAT is their base, then to hell with their base and of they are going to tolerate that sort of thing, then to hell with them too.
See, that’s exactly the sort of crass behavior Starving Artist is talking about. Why must you resort to curses and insults? Why not simply threaten to kill him instead?
Oh, that’s right, I forgot: the liberal SDMB doesn’t ALLOW that. They’ll gladly engender and promote trailer park-style langauge, but their much-vaunted “tolerance” doesn’t extend to death threats. Do you not see how this totalitarian oppression even extends to control of the language? Why is there an entire forum dedicated to liberal jeering, and yet expressing the same kind of support for McCain as they do at his rallies is verboten? Liberal “free speech?” Open your eyes!
You just absolutely can not argue honestly, can you? I do not equate them, I have never equated them, and I have said so in this very thread. What is wrong with you?
Yeah Guinastasia, what is wrong with you? You’re just making liberals look bad. Cease your grotesque falsehoods, lest we be forced to threaten your life. Do you think the rest of us can’t read? As post #31 and others make clear, **Starving Artist **IN NO WAY equates death threats with rude behavior. It’s made very plain that rude behavior is SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE.
I’m just finding it sort of funny that anyone could take seriously a video that has completely nutbar captions like “Republicans in New York: Less Equal Than Others.” Because - of course - Republicans are definitely the only people in New York City who have to deal with jeers and rude behavior 
That’s even beside the problems of trying to draw some sort of equivalency between people shouting things like “Boo!” at a march taking place in front of their homes and others using lies, racial slurs, and slander at a political rally.
I’m not a huge fan of “Look how racist Republicans are!” videos because of the degree to which you can edit footage of a large crowd to make it appear one way or the other, but come on.
If you’re bold enough to have a political march right in the middle of somebody’s neighborhood, you should be man enough to take some incredibly mild jeers without whining about it and crying about supression of free speech.
In fairness, you are not supposed to notice the captions at all. They’re intended as subliminal messages, only timed to the rate at which conservative synapses fire.
Careful with that brush there, that’s my parents and brother you’re talking about.
Where’s my deathnote pad? Dude with the stuffed monkey needs to die.
From what little I understand, in the show Deathnote, a character can have another person killed by a horrible monster by writting the person’s name on a special paper and having seen their face once
Agreed. At no time during the current administration have the Right tried to quell dissent by calling people with differing opinions scum. Absolutely not. No sir, no calls of un-Americanism directed at people protesting a war. Definitely not from elected officials. The Left on the other hand, oh mama!
How many New Yorkers did you see screaming abuse (or flipping the bird, or making faces) in your video? Did you notice any cuts and edits in the video? Are you aware that New York City has well over 8 million inhabitants?
Let me guess - it confirms what you believe to be true since it rhymes with your own experiences?
Yep. Who’s the mayor of NYC again?
Here’s the very very classy Sacramento GOP:
Nice to know it isn’t limited just to people in line at rallies, isn’t it?
Inside Starving Artist’s brain:
Video of 20 or so conservatives acting like insensitive clods = meh, a few bad apples …
Video of 20 or so liberals acting like insensitive clods = endemic of the whole liberal movement, by god!
And if you were still unconvinced that the GOP is the party of class, dignity, and decorum:
We should all aspire to have this much class.
What the hell?! These people are being arrested and charged, I hope!
The joke wasn’t something that merits arrest. It was just classless and ugly. Oops, I mean classy and stylish.
Okay, maybe not arrest in that case, but certainly an uncomfortable conversation.
That joke was a subject in this very Pit
I wouldn’t call out the hit squads just yet. Not like it’s the height of civility, but it’s hardly a high crime, or a misdemeanor.
Well, if they can also detect those messages, then obviously their synapses are not that slow. Which means that there’s hope for them yet.
(Cut me a little slack, it wouldn’t have been as funny if I’d limited it to “the rate at which Starving Artist’s synapses fire.” Why would anyone make a video just to subliminally persuade Starving Artist to do something?)
Vote Obama Starving Artist Vote Obama Worship Obama Praise Obama He is your savior Repent your conservativism and come into the light Starving Artist Flip off conservatives No war Starving Artist
The Secret Service calls bullshit. I didn’t think I heard any death threats in that video. Good to see that I was correct.
Anyone care to posit on the political leanings of the reporter who appears to be the only person there who heard it?
Countdown to usual suspects claiming that by posting this I’m siding with the bigots, starting in five…four…three…
Are you counting down hours?