Monday, September 14, 2009
2008 The Big Lie
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:02 PM
According to HuffPo, this image is being ciruculated in Tea Party circles as a true representation of the protest on Sept, 12:
There's another big problem with the photograph: it doesn't include the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the corner of Fourth St. and Independence Ave. that opened on Sept. 14, 2004. (Looking at the photograph, the building should be in the upper right hand corner of the National Mall, next to the Air and Space Museum.) That means the picture was taken before the museum opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn't show the "tea party" crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.So the status of the image is the same as that of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate. For Tea people, the present truth is so painful that any old lie offers some comfort.
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Cyberhackers must have used photoshot on the picture to discredit all of the brave teabaggers! What scoundrels!
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I was there and, as I mentioned ( http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive… ) there was another event going on at the time in part of the area between the Washington Monument and the Capitol. It was a big group, but nothing even close to what that picture illustrates. I think the figures of around 70,000 I've heard feel just right - basically the same as a big NFL game.
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Oh, that is the funniest thing I've heard all day. The Great Thousand Man March of 2009. That, and them all riding the subway home, like the pig-ignorant Bushie welfare-tittie-suckers they all are.
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@5: I am. I'm surprised. Not because I don't think Teabaggers are capable of incredible bullshit - they clearly are - but because every time I hear about some ridiculous stunt like this, I think "Surely, their shenanigans couldn't get any MORE ignorant / delusional / deceitful / base / hypocritcal." And, holy shit! They always outdo themselves.
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I object to this depiction of Teabaggers as insane people with access to Photoshop.
I mean, maybe they use an open source app like GIMP ... even if they are insane.
I mean, maybe they use an open source app like GIMP ... even if they are insane.
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"So the status of the image is the same as that of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate."
That's a great line!
That's a great line!
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At first I thought it was a picture of the Obama inauguration, because that irony would be so nourishing it could sustain me for weeks.
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Um, District of Columbia Resident here who loves Slog, and it was totally overcast on Saturday January 12, high of about 80.
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Can you imagine the crowds had Obama let us sink into a massive, world wide depression because he didn't want to increase the deficit?
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