Labor Day Front Porch Event (drunken Bush supporters heckle 70 yr. old)

[My Pet Goat]

Drunken Bush supporters heckle 70 year old woman. She had several throat surgeries.

"throughout Senator Kerry's speech...There were approximately fifty Bush supporters, including a very vocal group of about ten who were drinking lots of Busch beer."

"The Bush supporters did not let up shouting while an elderly woman who had several throat surgeries tried to tell her tale, prompting Senator Kerry to say to the cameras and the crowd, "While the Bush people were rudely shouting...a 70-year old woman was trying to tell the story of how she has to go out and work because she needs to take pills."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Their is no doubt in my mind that

chimp is paying these hecklers. They are really pro and persistent and seem to be getting as much coverage as the event itself.

[no_arbusto]

37. I grew up 5 miles from there.

I doubt that they're locals. For one, they were drinking Busch. No Iron City?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

76. You outed them! Busch beer SUX!!! eom

[bluestateguy]

2. Where is Pieman when you need him?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. Wow, GREAT article!

Not really an LBN thing, but I hope everyone gets to read it.

[Rose Siding]

4. Ms Diamond did a great write-up

Sounds like Kerry answered the drunken pro-bushies well and made them look ridiculous.

[stilpist]

71. I sent Ms. Diamond an e-mail:

That's an interesting story you tell. (I read it on MSNBC on Hardblogger.) But it's so one sided! Next tell us about the Kerry supporters heckling George W. I'll bet that's even more interesting.

Thanks,

[rumguy]

5. Can there be any doubt the average * supporter is scum?

They are the the worst this planet has to offer - the absolute worst - true human scum; garbage.

[calimary]

65. Maybe Pat Peale was there - the LOVELY lady with the purple heart

band-aid on the uppermost of her chins during the CONvention. She seems to have turned up everywhere there are groups of GOP dirt-divers.

[0007]

83. Absolutely! People of the lowest class and coarsest type

of tasteless riffraff.

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. How come we don't have goons

To take these assholes out. I swear, sometimes it sucks taking the high road.

[My Pet Goat]

22. Yep, these people deserved to be removed...

forcefully. Who gets drunk and heckles an elderly person with medical problems. Who raised these people? Is this Republican family values at work?

[LiberalFighter]

44. Isn't that what they did at their convention?

[calimary]

66. Compassionate conservatives on parade.

AGAIN.

[CHIMO]

23. Not Required

Just get M.M. there so that everyyone can see.

[Virginian]

31. It was the goons in the 90's, fired up by Limbaugh,

that made me decide I was in favor of everything they were against.
I didn't want to encourage them by supporting their candidate, too bad more people aren't turned off by their antics.

[Beware the Beast Man]

55. Like I said-

Sometimes it sucks taking the high road. (must...stop...knee...from...jerking...)

[TahitiNut]

47. Not goons. Women. Trained. Imagine how embarassing.

I wonder if Pink Slip would be interested.

[amber dog democrat]

7. Brown Shirts behave this way too.

This just goes further to discredit the Chimp and his hirelings.

[DrWeird]

8. Republicans in a nutshell.

nt

[Skip Intro]

9. effin swine

I wish I could run into some of these cowards.

Why the hell aren't they in Iraq taking bullets for their lord bush anyway?

may these unAmerican pukes reap what they sow

[saigon68]

57. THEY AREN'T IN IRAQ BECAUSE THEY ARE CHICKEN HAWKS

Just like President Cheney and his clueless sock-puppet THE CHIMPANZEE

[OKNancy]

10. Headline violation

Change the headline to match the story please.

[Junkdrawer]

13. Labor day front porch event (drunken Bush supporters heckle 70 yr. old)

For example....

[OKNancy]

14. Yes that would be good

I really hate to lock this thread, which is the policy.
It's a good story.

[My Pet Goat]

16. Thanks everyone for the notice and for the tip on a new

headline to use. :-)

[Swamp Rat]

48. Thank you for not locking it

I'm glad I had the opportunity to read it.

[KDLarsen]

64. Heh..

.. when I first noticed the headline, I thought it read "Drunk Bush heckle 70 ye. old".

One can always hope, I suppose :eyes:

[AbbeyRoad]

11. What about public intoxication?

Were these Bush supporters standing on the street drinking beer?

[TheDonkey]

26. good point, they should be tossed into a holding pen of barbed wire

[Judi Lynn]

27. Some Kerry supporter should video tape all his public appearances

Something like this would make GREAT footage for a news show, or even a political commercial, or even something more serious, if there could be legal steps taken at some point, as in their stepping on the rights of others to meet peacefully.....

Something should be done to turn it to our advantage. Let them take a risk by being seen by the whole world, and identified, rather than intimidating a small gathering.

[Shallah Kali]

41. Yes let the general public be exposed to how nasty the right wingers are!

Just like that man who kicked the female protester at the GOP convention is starting to be exposed for the scum he is!

[Cocoa]

67. I'm sure some news outlet has video of this

but will they show it?

[searchingforlight]

12. This would NEVER happen at a GWB event !!

When will the reporters point out the fact that the reason this can happen at a Kerry event is that he does not confine his audience to the converted?

[shanti]

35. thank you!!!

the fact that this would never happen at a * event should be emphasized! and kerry doesn't make anyone sign a "loyalty oath" either!

[QC]

15. Bush's Brownshirts. That's what they are. n/t

[blue neen]

17. That's a great article. Local (Pgh.) news didn't mention the hecklers.

They did report on Teresa leading the Labor Day parade, though. Estimates of 70,000 marchers and 50,000 spectators!

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/3709073/detail.html

[BrotherBuzz]

43. And Laura Bush* was marching with the

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Union? Cartel?;)

[RamboLiberal]

46. I was handing out K/E pins and bumper stickers at parade

It was 3 hours long. Tons of marching union workers all with T-shirts and signs for Kerry/Edwards. Many of the groups did "Bush must go" and other anti-Bush chants.





Anita Gallagher spotted a marcher in yesterday's Labor Day parade holding a sign that told voters to give President Bush the "pink slip."

She promptly pulled out a pink slip of her own to wave back as she stood on the Boulevard of the Allies watching Pittsburgh's annual parade Downtown.

Gallagher, a McCandless resident and volunteer for Democratic candidate U.S. Sen. John Kerry, was one of many who turned out to see Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, march in the parade.

The result was not only a three-hour queue of union members and marching bands but also, in large part, a Kerry-for-president rally.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04251/374729.stm



The * Koolaid drinkers.



With a friendly crowd in Canonsburg lobbing softball questions yesterday, Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry could have ignored a pocket of hecklers that tried to disrupt his campaign.

Instead, Kerry pulled the detractors into his Labor Day speech, part of the "front-porch discussions" he's been holding across the country. He told them their shouts and taunts couldn't cover up facts -- namely, that America has had a net loss of 1.6 million jobs under President Bush.

<snip>

One heckler then shouted, "Yeah, Kerry, you're really average."

Kerry pounced on the comment, replying: "No, I'm privileged, and my tax burden went down. I don't think that's right."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04251/374641.stm

[AspenRose]

62. *cue chirping crickets*

One heckler then shouted, "Yeah, Kerry, you're really average."

Kerry pounced on the comment, replying: "No, I'm privileged, and my tax burden went down. I don't think that's right."

*crickets*

Bet that caught the thugs off guard.

What a classy guy...

[goclark]

69. Go get um JK!

[CBHagman]

78. Finally a candidate who tells the truth!

I hope to God this catches on.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

18. This Nazi Hecklers are the TRUE Face of the GOP!

:puke:

[0rganism]

19. Wait! Why were these people allowed out of the free speech zone!?

Didn't they sign a loyalty oath? Where is the jackbooted security to drag the little fuckwads out of the crowd? Where is the vicious Kerry zealot waiting to kick them in the groin as they're immobilized by the gestapo?

Oh wait, I forgot, this is a Democratic rally, where multiple viewpoints are permitted and expressed.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

20. Case example of the problems created by a restricted gene pool...

Just like Rotweilers, Repuke hicks tend to have problems with generational meaness secondary to gene pool restriction...not to mention, generational tendencies for racism, bigotry, cruelty to animals, and general shitheadedness.

JB

[Judi Lynn]

21. This story should have gotten far more attention than it did.

It's time the country started seeing _Bush insulates himself TOTALLY from any chance of interruption, and the Republicans do NOT reciprocate the protection their own candidate has by leaving Kerry alone.

It shows what kind of character comprises the Republican party. Dirty, coarse opportunists. Crude idiots who will not control themselves, and dare anyone to do anything about it.

As the story just happened, it is late breaking, isn't it? It truly deserves its own headline.

[Mortos]

24. What a bunch of scumbags

Why do they let them disrupt events? We saw what happened to the protesters who disrupted the rNC, has anyone seen them since? bush supporters like these need to be spotlighted to show the mean spirited nature and douche baggery (to borrow from John Stewart) of these morans. If anyone has a blog or website, post this story. Write to the editors of your hometown papers, call radio stations and bring this up.

I have it featured on my blog.

www.conservativefighter.blogspot.com

[TheDonkey]

25. this stunts slip by when we were supposed to freak that nyc protestors

would ruin Kerry due to their violence and hatred.


Bushies are immature thugs that the media should truly be afraid of.

[Gin]

29. Kerry needs to say....Protestors come to my rally's because we

don't make people sign pledges of support to hear me speak....

and say it right to the camera..

[Judi Lynn]

51. It would be tremendous if he said that.......

It would be a good way to test how much power _Bush holds over our media if they kept it from ever being aired, too.

[AspenRose]

63. With a big ol' SMILE on his face!! I agree.

eom

[Emillereid]

28. GOP Brown shirts -- I predict we'll see more and more of them!

[BeHereNow]

32. THIS is why I want to leave this country

Leave these swine brownshirts to wallow in the mess
they have created and intend to perpetuate.
They DESERVE what's coming.
They DESERVE four more years of fascism.
These people make me SICK!
BHN

[buff2]

40. That's what those pigs wants us to do....

but I'm staying right here and I will make their miserable lives even MORE miserable! :evilgrin:

[BeHereNow]

42. You're stronger than me...

I have NO tolerance for ignorant, arrogant
hate filled masses.
If they were only affected by one of these maladies,
I might feel some hope, but in my eyes, they are the very worst
of all human character flaws all rolled into one seething
mass of putrid imbeciles, and they WILL reap what they have sown.
I don't want to be around when that happens.

They will turn even uglier than they are now.
It will be dangerous to be anywhere near them when
they start to turn on one another, and mark my words,
they will.
BHN

[ilovenicepeople]

53. and something tells me that my little country

of Canada ain't far enough away to be immune from the kaos.

[Emillereid]

50. I've come to the conclusion that Americans are too stupid to

live with. i simply don't want morons who would tolerate Bush as their leader for a day controlling my destiny.

[BeHereNow]

60. That's what I'm talking about-

Life is short, who would want to spend what
precious time is left among such hateful
and ignorant people? Not all Americans are that way,
but the numbers that are, and they appear to
be in record numbers at this point, are truly alarming.
BHN

[glitch]

73. if we let these guys take over the US and use all the resources of our

country - there will be no place safe to live, for long anyway.

We've got to stop them now before they lock in the power of the USA.

I believe we'll need both people fighting the resistance within the country as well as expats without sending support and providing safe havens.

So even if you do leave, please keep up the fight.

[Judi Lynn]

52. They learned at the Miami-Dade vote recount of the 2000 Presidential

election when the Washington goon squads showed up, along with some right-wing Cuban "exiles" that they actually can seize far more control of public situations than they ever dreamed possible, simply by grabbing the chance.

I don't see what keeps cops or other people from subdueing their acts of intimidation. Why should they get by with it? "Freedom of speech" is really, REALLY being stretched far beyond socially acceptable, and tolerable standards by these Republicans. At what point would they be said to exceed the limits of the law, or is it all subjective when it concerns Republicans?

[leQ]

30. local paper headline: Cheney blasts Kerry in Clear Lake campaign stop

the Mason City Globe-Gazette has a preview of tomorrow's article here. it'll be interesting to see if the city sends the campaign a security bill.

[Ducks In A Row]

33. Kerry should ask them why they haven't sign up for Iraq

if they love bush so much, they should go somewhere and die for him.

[progressivebydesign]

34. Kerry handled it magnificently! I wish it got more press!

Damn! He will be great in the debates! Responding to lies and drunken foolery today, will help him against Bush in the debates.

Those people should have been escorted away from the event. Or perhaps some of the Democratic youth could have knocked them down and pummeled them, as the republican youth did at the convetion. Drunken losers. Please, please, please, let this shit get out to the BIG media outlets!!!

[drdtroit]

36. This really demonstrates exactly how

the Republicans enable people to be comfortable with their prejudices and bias.

[buff2]

39. Well,they are a racist party

That's the reason chimpy has all the RED states....redneck southern racists who vote for a party that is mostly WHITE.They hate blacks,gays,lesbians and others...that is why they are republicans.The democratic party has way too many minorities who are different from them.... in race and sexual orientation. They are the most intolerate breed of people on this planet. :puke:

[buff2]

38. Where was the Secret Service?

Those drunken idiots should have been forced 5 blocks away from that event. That was someone's home and property and they had the right to be able to hear what Kerry had to say instead of hearing the trash lined up in front of them. I don't understand why these bastards always get by with their evil shit.I'm calling the Kerry campaign first thing tomorrow and ask them to please see to it that those FReaktoids can't get near Kerry. No chance those redneck bu$h lovers will ever get a brain,so why should they disrupt every event Kerry has? Geesus,I hate those jack booted brownshirts with a passion.They should be over in Iraq dying for their sweet Jesus bu$h.Bastards. :grr:

[raysr]

45. I wish I'd have been there!

[savistocate]

49. "Kerry stayed on message"--

great descriptive essay by Diamond..above being called "article".
And his msg was knife sharp. There__is his "swift boat" GOPper N*z*s. Republicans can be so proud.

They were clear law-breakers, their freedom of speech would be legit following the end of the rally. That was causing a disturbance..a court throwing them in the tank for 60 days sounds just.

[Beware the Beast Man]

56. Hey stayed on message, but

Guaran-damn-tee that the Puke pundits will spin this as if he had no control over the unruly crowd.

[Earth_First]

54. What's most pathetic...

is how clever these people must have thought themselves to be for drinking "Busch" beer.

[GoldenOldie]

59. Incident in Tucson

A man and his wife who are running for Precinct Committeeman were out campaigning the neighborhood yesterday and stopped to talk to my spouse who was in the front yard. We had been unaware that they only lived 2-blocks from us yet had been extremely active in the Dem Party and holding office within the State Party. This couple were in their late sixties early seventies and they had told my spouse that things were getting a little nasty. The two factions have begun to compete on major street corners during the day with each side carrying the Kerry/Edwards, Bush/Cheney, and individual artistic signs. This had been a friendly competition for gaining attention of drivers with the normal blowing of horns in agreement or thumbs down or up, until one of the young Bush/Cheney brown-shirts, crossed the road with a paper cup in his hand and he threw the contents on the wife. The paper cup contained urine and she said it wasn't a little paper cup it was one of those super-sized cups that you get at these mini-marts. They said that in all their political lives they have never seen it this bad...that made four of us.

[glitch]

74. Such a brave little soldier throwing urine on elders - and of course he

threw it on the woman. Brave, brave little soldier.

[Judi Lynn]

75. To get their message across, however, they had to misspell his name.

I think it would have been so elegant if they had brought cans of Bush's Baked Beans with them, instead!

[Catfight]

58. The list of Rude Republicans GROWS:

Cheney saying "go fuck yourself," and saying he felt better

Patricia Pearle with mocking VETS with Purple Heartless Bandaids and then not apologizing to offended VETS.

Young Republican pulling a young lady to the ground and kicking her and not apologizing

Zell Miller with his venomous hate speech

Bush's daughter sticking her tongue out to the public





This is a poorly behaved angry party! When are people going to have enough of it?

[wolfgirl]

61. Is this the same

group of Pro-Bush folks that was led by the local GOP Committee Chair? I saw a brief interview and this person denied being paid by the GOP to be at the event...he just said he was there to protest...yeah, right! Buffoons!

[Tsiyu]

68. Why do Republicans Hate America?

Why do they want to be remembered years from today as being a party of classless, rude, intolerant thugs?

Why do they swallow killing children for oil ( the camel) and swallow screaming out 70-year-old women, and swallow the desecration of their Constitution and their livelihoods?

Yet they strain at common, moral treatment of others (the gnat) in a DEMOCRACY where each has the freedom to have a viewpoint. They strain at having to refrain from mocking Veterans, at having to be decent, respectful people.

They are lemmings led to the precipice by their need to hate, like wounded grade schoolers whose Mommies and Daddies are alcoholic child beaters. They act out some paranoid psychosis and it is very sad.

Republicans need to be mentally evaluated and placed in secure places where they cannot harm true Americans.

[DBoon]

70. Someone needs to video-record these thugs

And post the results on the Web.

Maybe follow them to their cars and write down the license number?

We need to expose these goons. I give you odds they work for the RNC.

I think any Kerry supporter with a videocam should bring it to all rallies and make a point of recording the disruptors.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

72. i loathe bush* supporters..no i fucking hate them!

[Bunny]

77. It's amazing to me that these Bush thugs didn't get the snot beat out of

them. In blue collar Western PA, this sort of thing normally isn't tolerated. I'm not one to condone violence, but there are times when it's the only thing these sub-primates understand.

[LuminousX]

79. Mean-spirited hate filled supporters of Bush

[livinginphotographs]

80. This may have already been posted somewhere...

another psychotic Bush fan in action.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/3710608/detail.html?subid=22100484&qs=1;bp=t

Wouldn't he be better off actually going to fight his king's war instead of beating up veterans?

This really does disturb me, because I try not be so outwardly partisan as to say that "all Republicans are scum," but really, how often do you hear of a Kerry supporter pulling some shit like this?

[DaveSZ]

81. IMO

All those drunken idiots need to march down to the conscription office and volunteer to serve in Fallujah.

[livinginphotographs]

82. It's much more fun to send someone else's kids off to die

It's much more fun to send someone else's kids off to die so you can have the free time to sit there with a beer in your hand yelling at old ladies.