Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-13-09 06:04 PM
Original message
It seems that the most important thing about yesterday's DC Klan rally was
"how many people were there?"
Why does everyone, including the MSN (the first thing I heard out of my teevee this morning was Alex Twit asking someone how many people had attended the protest), obsess about the number of people that showed up? Are they looking for some validation for their racist, conspiracy-fueled wackiness - a lot of people means they are right in their insanity? Well, if they themselves are so hung up on, and seeking validation in, the numbers, they must not be all that confident in their message.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6540845But, but numbers were important when people were going to see concerts and 0Bama put in an appearance afterwards. Numbers were important when all his unemployed faithful showed up for the inauguration.
BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-13-09 06:05 PM
Response to Original message
1. Yep - as long as no-one says it, it doesn't exist. So all resources are put towards...
preventing people from saying it.
Yep, that's why the MSM downplayed the numbers. That's why the MSM ignored the Van Jones story until AFTER he resigned.
WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-13-09 06:08 PM
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2. Numbers indicate support levels
Below 100,000 = fringe group of idiotic cranks.
100,000 - 200,000 = watch out, this is something that could become a movement
200,000 + = MAN BATTLE STATIONS, WE HAVE A MOVEMENT ON OUR HANDS!!!!!
You betcha. You, well not you idiots, but the Dimrats in congress had better suit up.
WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-13-09 07:11 PM
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6. They've spread the lie and the lie becomes their truth
IT's no different from the Birthers.
The birthers have decided that Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen and thus no rational argument will alter that.
The Teabaggers ahve decided that 70,000 = 2,000,000 and thus no rational argument will alter that.
They even go so far as to take a decade old aerial photo of an event on the mall and claim it as their own, just as Orly Taitz has taken not one, but multiple obviosly fraudulent "Kenyan Birth Certificates" and made them real.
It's a psychosis.
Stop projecting. The incidence of mental illness at the DUmp is 50+ times higher than the general population. Liberalism is a mental illness.
A small campfire, but one that still illustrates their level of fear and stupidity.