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I'm getting at the fact that many liberals here claimed that the Glen Beck rally was "blindingly white" and looked like a KKK rally but the people in the photos from events are the same, overwhelmingly white. Why did the race of the attendees make the Glen Beck rally a racist KKK event but the race of the attendees today made it perfect in the eyes of many liberals?
The race of the attendees didn't make it perfect
I don't think anyone really noticed the race of people there. It doesn't matter.
As part of the comedic routine, Stewart and his associates asked some in the audience to identify themselves by category, eliciting answers such as "half-Mexican, half-white," "American woman single" and "Asian-American from Taiwan."
"It's a perfect demographic sampling of the American people," Stewart cracked to a crowd filled with mostly younger whites. "As you know, if you have too many white people at a rally, your cause is racist. If you have too many people of color, then you must be asking for something — special rights, like eating at restaurants or piggy back rides."
Stewart-Colbert Rally Draws Laughs, Activism - TIME (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2028439,00.html#ixzz13tq1fA00 - broken link)
I'm getting at the fact that many liberals here claimed that the Glen Beck rally was "blindingly white" and looked like a KKK rally but the people in the photos from events are the same, overwhelmingly white. Why did the race of the attendees make the Glen Beck rally a racist KKK event but the race of the attendees today made it perfect in the eyes of many liberals?
I noticed that too - a LOT of white people, not so many of color.
For instance, Liz Pifer, a student at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, Pa., told TheDC that though she plans to vote in the midterm elections on Tuesday, she didn’t know who was running for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat. She later said that she thought Joe Sestak was running, and that she’ll probably vote for him because he’s a Democrat. As for House candidates, she said, “I don’t know who’s running.”
Another said she had no idea who was running in her district.
This is the best of the live blogging I've come across so far, with that very special British touch:
"The crowd shots now show it stretching all the way from near Congress, where the stage is, to nearly down to the Washington Monument – that's pretty good. Although compared to Obama's inauguration in 2009 that's pathetic. (That will be the Fox News analysis I'm guessing – although Fox is in fact just ignoring the whole thing today, as is their wont.)
It means it is hard to compare this rally with the Glenn Beck rally for size, because that was by the Lincoln Memorial."
oh, a parody. seems like that could be used as a blanket excuse for all kinds of behavior
from now on, anyone holding an obama-with-a-hitler-mustache sign will merely be parodying these signs.
right?
No, because people holding the Hitler mustache signs today realized how absurd the signs are.
The people holding signs in the past with Obama with Hitler mustache, or Bush with Hitler mustache, didn't realize how ridiculous the signs were. They thought they were making a valid political point about Obama. But they were really making a point about themselves. And hence, they get parodied like today.
Personally, when I see a poster of Obama as Hitler, it doesn't make me angry. It makes me laugh. Not at the sign, but at the sign holder.
i get that you're more than comfortable with an obvious double-standard.
I get that you don't like it when the tables are turned and the right gets a dose of its own medicine.
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