Slog - Comments on The Master of Illusions http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions The descriptions of the transformation of Denver's Invesco Field peppered the Republican blogosphere hours before Barack Obama was set to address a dancing, jubilant crowd of more than 70,000 supporters on the Democratic National Convention's final night. Designed by Emmy Award-winning entertainment behemoths, the set has spectacular columns, concert lighting, JumboTrons and rising royal blue circular stairs -- an arena where warm-up acts such Will.i.am and Sheryl Crow looked right at home. Stevie Wonder led the crowd in a sing-a-long, "Bah-hah-rack-O-bama!" The conservative online magazine The American Thinker remarked that the stage made use of the "basic stagecraft of... Copyright 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:00:17 -0800 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:06:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Greg Charles, you are 100% right. Thanks for working the convention. Now please go out and party, with Slog's blessing.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116717 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116717 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:32:12 -0800 Comment by COMTE Like I said in an earlier comment thread, my biggest issue with the Mile High stage is that it appears to be an almost exact replica of the one used at the GOP convention in 2004; which I figured was sort of the point.

But then, wing-nuts have never been credited for having good long-term memories.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116726 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116726 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:45:39 -0800 Comment by leek I was out all night and just put on C-SPAN since they're the only ones with anything really on at the moment. They were showing the Obama and Biden families waving a ton and then leaving the becolumned set, all the while playing this movie-soundtrack type classical music that really made it seem like something destructive was about to happen. Yikes.

]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116727 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116727 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:48:29 -0800 Comment by Odrama Yes it's a spectacle and grand - just like Odrama all glitter and no substance.

]]> Odrama http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116736 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116736 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:03:47 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @3,

That was played on PBS too. Creepy.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116737 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116737 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:03:52 -0800 Comment by I love to feed the trolls..... Better a "spectacle and grand" than just tired and entitled like McCain. But some people will buy anything, eh Odrama?

Or perhaps you're bitter because your pantsuit didn't fit?

Either way, bitter becomes you. Please keep it up.

]]> I love to feed the trolls..... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116741 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116741 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:09:59 -0800 Comment by clintonsarmy We won't support NO-Bama and will re-defeat him in November!! Go Hillary 2012!!!

]]> clintonsarmy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116742 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116742 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:10:41 -0800 Comment by max solomon the country music on the feed immediately after was genius. or retarded.

i'm torn.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116745 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116745 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:15:35 -0800 Comment by hrc2012 HIL-LA-RY ! HIL-LA-RY ! HIL-LA-RY !!! Go Hillary 2012!!!!

]]> hrc2012 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116747 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:16:22 -0800 Comment by Ryan The big story that the media is missing: what did Mike Gravel think of the speech?

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116749 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116749 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:22:11 -0800 Comment by stinkbug BARNEY SMITH in 2012!!!

]]> stinkbug http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116755 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116755 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:32:17 -0800 Comment by Homo Will What most people fail to notice is that all these corps. that own the media are RIGHT WING and throwing their money in that direction. What the fuck do you expect they are going to say? Honestly, nothing between now and Sept. 26, when the first debate is, is admissable points of view in my eyes.

]]> Homo Will http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116756 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116756 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:39:17 -0800 Comment by Lord Basil I'm a traditionalist. A hard traditionalist. I love my country and would fight and die for her.

If this man, Barack Hussein Obama - this Marxist/Communist/Liberal, this treasonous muslim traitor, is elected, and liberal Marxist Communist policies like government health care and abortion on demand and the continued promotion of the homosexual lifestyle are enacted, I will not be able to stand by her.

I will have to fight her, and I sense that many will join me in the streetzs fighting for the liberty that a Marxist/Communist/Liberal treasonous traitor that Barack Hussein Obama seeks to destroy.

If this man wins, you better make sure you have plenty of canned food and C-rations on hand. This could be the bloodiest battle since the war between the states.

]]> Lord Basil http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116763 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116763 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:09:44 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @13,

We already have abortion on demand. Why aren't you starting this civil war now? Or are just too big of a pussy?

Move to Saudi Arabia. They'll just love you there.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116766 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116766 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:14:30 -0800 Comment by Quincy RE: 13, can you be a treasonous traitor? Doesn't that cancel out?

]]> Quincy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116768 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116768 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:25:56 -0800 Comment by COMTE Dear @13:

I hear The U.S. Army is still looking for a few good men.

Give me your address, and I'll be more than honored to drive you to the nearest recruiting station.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116769 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116769 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:31:18 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE I loves me a hard traditionalist. Well, at least the hard part. But Lord Basil Wrathbone mebbe not so much...

]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116770 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116770 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:36:18 -0800 Comment by Judah The right has become a bunch of whiners.

The right were always a bunch of whiners. They hate pork barrel projects, unless they're military spending in rural southern states. They hate welfare, unless it's for farmers. They hate big government, unless it's rebuilding the shitbox house they bought in a hurricane/tornado/flood zone.

Barry Goldwater's Republican Party at least had a moral baseline. The Republicans that have been running the show since Reagan are unselfconscious whining hypocritical little bitches who, contrary to their own press, mostly can't fight (in spite of committing a horrifying number of violent crimes), can't shoot (in spite of owning a closet full of guns), and can't repair their own cars (which they usually own two or three of). Republicans are already blaming the consequences of eight years of Republican mistakes on two years of Democratic control of Congress, because God knows the world would come to a fucking end if they accepted responsibility for what they've done.

They're shortsighted, mendacious and morally adrift. Of course they're whiners. It's all they've got.

]]> Judah http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116772 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116772 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:39:25 -0800 Comment by Lord Basil The American people will not allow the traditions that made this country great to be undermined by a Marxist/Communist/Liberal working in concert with the Muslims.

Mark my words: If Barack Hussein Obama is elected, the streets of America will run with the blood of liberals.

It is my dream to destroy liberalism.

Forever.

]]> Lord Basil http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116777 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116777 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:55:19 -0800 Comment by leek Dude. What kind of self-respecting scorched-earth fundie names himself after an herb? Totally gay.

]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116779 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116779 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:07:49 -0800 Comment by Lord Basil #20, I think you're the homosexual, but you and your anti-American cohorts will not convert my 10 sons to homosexuality and liberalism.

]]> Lord Basil http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116781 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116781 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:21:53 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Word.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116806 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116806 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:39:30 -0800 Comment by Furcifer Was that the soundtrack from Titanic? Whatever it was, it was totally bizarre and inappropriate.

]]> Furcifer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116808 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116808 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:25:57 -0800 Comment by Balt-O-Matt I know Lord Basil is probably joking, but threatening Barack Obama's life and the lives of other Americans is probably not the smartest thing to do on the web. Just saying.

]]> Balt-O-Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116809 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116809 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:32:47 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I just got 86'd from Seattle Tqpeoom at seatac fuch Yes!they better let me I. The plane

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116813 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116813 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:11 -0800 Comment by Rosa Clemente
How about those pictures of pigs beating up on kids?

How about those pictures of pigs beating up on kids?

The Revolution will be streamed.
The Revolution will be streamed...will be streamed...

The Revolution WILL put you in the driver's seat...

http://www.indybay.org/olduploads/iasha-rosa_9-13-05.jpg

]]> Rosa Clemente http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116814 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116814 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:03:27 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens Is the American Right now a mortally wounded animal, growling impotently at its former prey, or merely an incompetent bullshit artist, standing in a corner, holding a paintbrush dripping with failed ideology, complaining about the corner it has now painted itself into?

Either way, looking forward to the Obama-McCain debates. Cassius Clay vs. Fred MacMurray. Now that will be a spectacle to enjoy.

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116879 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116879 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:42:08 -0800 Comment by Greg Can't we at least get some trolls who can write decently? #19, if I wanted to read the Turner Diaries, I would go to the library.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116900 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1116900 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:03:50 -0800 Comment by inkweary @13 you are a self-aggrandizing deluded twit.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1117207 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_master_of_illusions#c1117207 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:06:15 -0800