What a day yesterday was. What a vibe. Everybody was cool in spite of the fact that the gig was set up for 60,000 people while drawing 300,000. Like many of the 240,000 who could not really make out what anybody on stage was saying, I spent the day people watching. While trying to digest the sights and sounds of yesterday’s rally this morning, I came upon this Kos diary which explains the final demise of Newspaper authority in this election cycle.
It is a great read which points out how Republicans have completely opted out of trying to explain their anti-factual nonsense to newspaper editorial boards and the “main stream” media in general.
With all the money in the world at their disposal, they have simply ignored the historically objective media in favor of right wing TV, radio, invitation only pep rallies, and a blizzard of attack ads. [Side Note: Fuck newspapers. They dug their own grave by ignoring reality and objective truth and rather framed every story over the past ten years as a “he said/she said” battle between two extreme positions. (JUST LOOK AT TODAY’S FRONT PAGE FOR A CLASSIC EXAMPLE) Fuck you a million times News Journal you dumb fucks! /rant]
Anyway, it occurs to me that yesterday showed a willingness on the left to fight fire with fire. Or in this specific case, fight absurd rallies with crazy people holding nonsensical signs with absurd rallies with crazy people holding nonsensical signs.
Only, our signs were nonsensical by design. For every “angry” teabagger who screamed with Beck that they want the country back – there were ten reasonable liberal employing dry wit to calmly eviscerate the notion that the country is anything other than what it has always been….AWESOME!!
America! FUCK YEAH!!