just got back from the kkk err Hannity Nugent thing

[backwoodsbob]

ask me anything :)

btw...two and a half hours was all we could take

[rd_kent]

1. Uh, ok, I will... how about a synopsis of the event?

[backwoodsbob]

5. not as crazy as I thought it would be

Nugent was the most over the top thing we saw but we did leave early.I couldn't take anymore of the riech wing speeches.

VERY packed.Easy 50,000 there when we left and busses lined up bringing people in

[lunatica]

2. Did you take any photos?

[backwoodsbob]

3. have a few photos

not many.

One eerie thing I got on photo that came out kind of silhouette ..they had a cop in a basket on a crane in the middle of the crowd with a sniper rifle.

Wasn't really much to photo

on edit

photos on wifes phone..will upload soon as she gets a chance

[virgogal]

4. I have no idea what you are talking about.

[backwoodsbob]

7. hannity/Nugent had a rally today

in Logan county WV.

My company paid us to attend so I went to get some photos and check out the weirdness

[Tangerine LaBamba]

15. Your company PAID you to attend?

What company?

How much do they love Glenn Beck, do you think?

Just wondering....................

[backwoodsbob]

21. oh the owner of my company

would probably give Beck a blowjob on stage right there.He loves the man.

This was more calculated though.All the coal mining bigwigs were there so they wanted some presence for our company.Company had bigass balloons with name on them flying over our area.Caterers feeding standard bbq type food to anyone who wanted some.

They wanted some company presence while pressing flesh was their main goal.

But yeah anyone from the company that attended got paid for the day and with it being a holiday we got DT. I could use 8 hours of DT so we showed..ate...left

[Tangerine LaBamba]

32. Ah, clean coal,

that laughable, imaginary thing that's as elusive and unreal as the unicorn.

Good for you - I imagine you had to sign in somewhere?

Free food?

My goodness, I grew up in the anthracite country of eastern Pennsylvania, and I saw how the coal company owners treated the people - like crap - but they bought their loyalty every damn time with the smallest little throwaways imaginable.

Today, you got DT and free food, and I say you'd have been a fool not to attend.

But, imagine the cravenness of those executives. And imagine how hard they're laughing at the people who turned out and who were THRILLED to have been invited!

Makes me really, really sad for my country.

Thanks for the report, though - you did good, my friend.................

:toast:

[Faygo Kid]

6. How big was the crowd? I heard pre-event estimates of 100,000.

I hope it was far less than that. Useful idiots.

[backwoodsbob]

9. crowd was big

easy 50,000 when we left and busses lined up dropping people off.
They may hit 100k

[Faygo Kid]

12. Ouch. Don't they realize they are missing Glenn Beck's TV show today?

Obviously their racist priorities are misplaced.

Hard to believe I continue to advocate for health care even for those lunatics.

[pipoman]

8. Are you writing the synopsis

which should have been the OP now? Or are you wanting to play 20 questions...isn't there a gaming forum?

[backwoodsbob]

10. figured it would be easier to answer questions people ask

than try to think of every possible question ahead of time.

Excuse the hell out of me oh mighty one

[pipoman]

13. Ok, I'll play...What happened there?

[eShirl]

11. was there pie?

[backwoodsbob]

16. ok fine

this thing was in the middle of freaking no where.I mean NO WHERE!.They had to be smartasses and hold it at an old mountaintop removal site.They were shuttling people in from every parking lot for twenty miles.

The crowd *by the time we left* wasn't that crazy.Very few signs.Nothing really over the top as far as signs go. Some no socialist healthcare blah blah crap.Nothing really photo worthy.

Nugent was WAY over the top,saying when the feds come for his guns he will give them up one bullet at a time.BY far the most controversial speaker there.He was pretty out there.

a few others spoke before we left.Blankenship whined about how he put out a cool million to put this kkk rally on.Couple of local mayors talked.

Really wasn't the big deal they are making it out to be.Lots of people..LOTS of people.Was kind of anticlimactic to be honost but we did leave before they had a chance to get too much moonshine in em.

All in all a disappointing dud

[randr]

14. I wonder how many people attended because they were paid to attend?

[Saboburns]

17. I'm just up the road in Hamlin/

We're practically neighbors

I know a bunch of miners who attended.

But I know more that didn't.

[blogslut]

18. Your company paid you to attend?

How interesting. Without revealing too much, what sort of company do you work for? Also, were there many attendees wearing identical t-shirts?

[backwoodsbob]

it's a mining roof support company

[blogslut]

24. Ahh, that makes sense

Since it was a Blankenship-funded gathering.

What about matching t-shirts? Do you recall if there were many?

[backwoodsbob]

28. LOTS of matching shirts

I would guess 1/4 of the people were there with nice little patriotic slogan shirts from their companies

Ours said *I'm proud to be an American worker* on the front and friends of America of all things on the back

Lots of people wearing similar themes. My guess would be 1/4 at least were *pursuaded* to go by their employer

[blogslut]

30. Ha!

Well, I hope you got at least one crowd shot. Matching t-shirts are always a sign that the attendees were paid/invited, as opposed to actual fans.

[backwoodsbob]

35. got one crowd shot

soon as the wife gets here from mom's I'll load what I have

[HughBeaumont]

37. "I'm proud to be an American worker . . . while forever voting for those who screw me!"

Did they all pass the brain around or did they drop it?

[tularetom]

19. Hooray!! Strip mine our mountaintops! Take all our resources! Take our jobs when you're done!

We love you and hate socialism! Take away our health care so you can increase your profits too! Take our kids education so they can be dumshits like us! Hooray! When's Hank Jr gonna sang? Take our social security too! We hate socialism! The preisident's a n-----r!

Give all our money to them Jews on Wall Street! Hooray! Wait a minute! What'd I just say? Our money ain't goin to them is it?

We invite you to come and fuck us. No wonder WV has such a reputation.

[lpbk2713]

20. Was "OneTrick Pony" there?

aka Lee Greenwood.

Han-nutty usually has him come along on his bullshit dog n pony shows.

[blogslut]

23. The "headliner" was Bocephus

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/09/07/9902/

Yeehaw! :eyes:

[hollowdweller]

26. Did you read the interview with Bosyphilis in the Gazette

He said that if it wasn't for the electoral college Obama wouldn't be president?? He seemed to think that the popular vote should decide the electon ignoring the fact Obama won both and that if we did it his way Gore would have won in 80. Know he had some head injuries maybe he was just having cognitive problems.

[blogslut]

29. No, but thanks for the synopsis

I really don't give a damn what that old asshole has to say. He's about as relevant to me as Nugent.

[Historic NY]

33. He should tell the Marine he is going hunting with he is a chickenhawk coward....

I’m going to have to tell that Marine that I’m going hunting with with no eyes next week that he did it for nothing.”

[blogslut]

36. He won't

Nugent is as full of shit as he ever was.

[hollowdweller]

22. Probably better than half of the people were likely on some sort of check.

With the exception of the gun issue and the coal issue there isn't that strong of an anti gov't sentiment in Southern WV.

I'm not joking that in some communities nearly everyone is on SSI, Disability, or is retired from the gov't. The rest either work for gov't or work in the mines or timber industry.

Did they have Jesco there??

[backwoodsbob]

25. Jesco?

[hollowdweller]

27. Are you from WV??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesco_White

[backwoodsbob]

31. I'm from the corner of Virginia

Bluefield to be exact.

Sorry...never heard of the guy and didn't see him

[hollowdweller]

34. Bluefield

OK.

I just wondered if maybe he was there since he lives in Boone Co