DU Question: Where did DUers get the "moran" pic? Is it a pic of an oaf

[TexasChick]

from a Chimp rally or was it taken from Freeptardville's forums? I see people referencing "moran" to freeptards with this picture, but don't quite understand where it originated:




Forgive me, DUers, if this is a repost and this question has been asked before!


Jennifer

[Fleshdancer]

1. I could be wrong but....

I thought it was from a news source (like news photos on yahoo, etc). I believe he's counter protesting Iraqi War protesters. It's been around so long, I'm questioning my memory on this one.

[nostamj]

4. i don't believe it was mainstream

freepers LOVE to post pics of the pathetic protests and, IIRC, that is where it first surfaced.

I could also be wrong though....

[Fridays Child]

5. Wasn't it from a counter-protest in the St. Louis area?

I think it was from a protest/counter-protest during a Boooosh visit to St. Louis, in early 2004.

[TexasChick]

6. Ah, we're getting somewhere now...it appears he probably is a Chimp

supporter? That explains it!


Jennifer

[Fridays Child]

9. Here it is...

March, 2003, St. Louis Boeing Action

http://stlouis.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6583

[slutticus]

2. Ha! I just noticed he has a Cardinals shirt on

LOL

[stinkeefresh]

7. I know!

I'm going to think about him when the Sox win again tonight.

heh heh.

[LoZoccolo]

3. It was from an Indymedia site.

I remember reading it there, and they had commentary on the pictures and talked about how none of the people rallying with him said anything to him about the mistake.

[fknobbit]

13. It's highly unlikely

That any of that crowd knew that he had misspelled.

[liberalnurse]

8. It has been around here for well over a year.....

It is now the constant mental image I always see when 6-pack freepers are discussed.

[greekspeak]

10. sniff sniff. Woe unto me for not having such a spendid mullet.

Or that cheesy mustache, or that proud belly. And to spell like that! I guess it is time to go take that hemlock now.

[leftchick]

11. see the gal to the right in the photo?

I remember when I saw the first photo of this it was much larger and showed most of the sign she was holding. It was a "support the troops" (pro-war) rally and her sign said free republic on it.

[TexasChick]

12. Well, that explains it! Thanks, guys! Freeptards=nimrods! n/t

[SlavesandBulldozers]

14. Im a Cards fan personally

this pic has singlehandedly done so much damage to the st louis label.

I actually think the "Go USA" is the funnier of the two signs. THat pic never gets old.

[Solon]

15. I'm sensitive to it...

Just remember folks, the anti-war protest was larger than these Morans, I should know I was there. Worse than St. Louis, I live in St. Charles, where this protest actually took place, less than 10 minutes on 370 from the Boeing plant.

[TexasChick]

16. Solon, why didn't someone throw a dictationary at the moran and tell him

to look up "moron"! LOL!!

Jennifer