Tea Party Protester: Ignore Me, Specifically?

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No, Matt, it isn't. But you must understand that this whiny bitch has no concept of what hypocrisy means -- otherwise, she would have re-evaluated her idiotic political agenda long ago.

I will bet anybody $100 that she cannot explain the Commerce Clause of the Constitution without looking it up.

Jesus Fucking Christ on October 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM

And another hundred says she couldn't explain it even if she did look it up.

I Like Your New Haircut on October 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM

well, JFC just made the woman's point: calling her a "whiny bitch" - yes, we all want to be singled out for respectful dialogue. she asked nicely and does not appear to be screaming at anyone. some people want to be part of "us" and not featured as "me". nothing wrong with that. as opposed to name-calling behind an anonymous nickname (fucking, rhymes with clucking, as in chicken)

tabarnhart on October 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM

So if someone were to call her a whiny bitch, using their real name, that would be acceptable?

Matt Davis on October 20, 2009 at 11:34 AM

I'm protesting your media coverage of my protest of lack of media coverage!

priceless.

Chunty McHutchence on October 20, 2009 at 11:35 AM

This women who wants the photo taken down and tabarnhart are both whiny bitches.

If you go out in public, your photo can and will be taken. As long as the photos aren't being used in a duplicitous manner, tough fucking titties. You dont' want to be associated with a protest action; don't go or wear something to obstruct a good view of your face. Anonymous and BlackBloc have known this crap for years. Tea-baggers, Freepers and general douche-tards of the right are just now learning the basics of how to conduct protest actions.

Graham on October 20, 2009 at 11:48 AM

Oh... and also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streissand_ef…

Graham on October 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM

Lot of irony here, given this is the Merc reporting on the O's front office, almost like an advertising, which I am blocking otherwise, but there's also a dude giving the "rock" symbol, which tells me this was a happening' party, especially with bondage going on.

on October 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM

She looks like she needs a good teabagging.

Demondog on October 20, 2009 at 12:33 PM

I was once specifically asked by more than one organizer at an anti-racism rally not to take pictures.

The One True b!X on October 20, 2009 at 12:40 PM

b!X, imagine if their employers, families, etc found out that they weren't racists.

Chunty McHutchence on October 20, 2009 at 12:42 PM

There's a documented history of Neo-Nazis attacking critics. I'm assuming that A) b!x's event was a vaguely radical one, and B) it wasn't a press event held on an open street, in fount of a freaking newspaper.

Kyle! on October 20, 2009 at 12:57 PM

Maybe she just dosen't want to be seen with that large fellow waving the devil horns under the building address there in the background.

Samuel John Klein on October 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM

@Chunty - Ha!

Reymont on October 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM

A lot of these idiots (especially the Libertarian, Alex-Jonesy wing) think that the Govt. is paying attention to these teabag rallies and retaliating against people they can identify... such as auditing for unpaid taxes, etc.

I know, to go to a rally undisguised and believe that is moronic beyond belief... but remember, these are the same people that see no problem in screaming 'KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE!!!' and not being horrified at the mind-melting hypocrisy.

lyle on October 20, 2009 at 2:52 PM

See, she was facing away from the building where the newspaper was so she wasn't expecting her face to show up in the paper, but just the back of her head. (She wasn't expected that other papers in town would be ambushing her from the other side.)

BobTheJanitor on October 20, 2009 at 3:03 PM

I can see the movement moving toward a teabagista drag: yellow baseball hats, big stunna shades and "don't tread on me" kerchiefs tied over their nose and mouth...

rhyzome on October 20, 2009 at 3:24 PM

I believe that this is entirely my fault...Good.

on October 20, 2009 at 5:31 PM

It really is a horrible picture of her. Serves her right for protesting on behalf such a stupid cause in public. Would you want the goat horns throwing "Mark Levin Conservative" on your team? Meither. Make it bigger!

on October 20, 2009 at 5:41 PM

Kyle, it doesn't matter if an event is a "press event". It matters if it's a *public one*. If it is, you can't restrict photography of it. I get the Neo-Nazi retaliation thing, to a degree. But if the point is to stand up against those people, saying "but don't show anyone that we did so" doesn't make any sense.

But, ultimately, the relative sense of it doesn't matter. Public event? Deal with the fact that photography of it is allowed.

The One True b!X on October 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM

Matt, if someone is willing to put their real name behind the words they speak, the words aren't necessarily ok but at least they're not a chickenshit. and few people have the guts to slag off others if they can't hide behind a nick. even just using a first name (like "Graham") affords the comfort of cowardice to call names like a 7-year-old.

tabarnhart on October 21, 2009 at 7:09 AM

@tabarnhart: What's your phone number? Home address? DOB? Until you post these pertinent details you too will remain a chicken-shit coward. A 7-year-old name calling nincompoop, etc. If the best you can come up with is that people online are using handles (a practice that's been going on since the creation of said medium), you fail epically at conversation and debate.

Graham on October 21, 2009 at 8:46 AM

She's a cutie.

($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(# on October 21, 2009 at 10:55 AM

Do you think her name is T.A. Barnhart?

on October 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM

T.A. Barnhart -- Google it you noobs, he writes for BlueOregon from time to time ... Aside from that, the commentators here have distinguished how far the left has come from tolerance and have come to embody the hate they purport to abhor. Keep it up!

geoff on October 21, 2009 at 12:48 PM

There are, frankly, a number of valid reasons someone might not want to have their picture appear like this from as simple as they don't like the way it looks (and the shot IS rather unflattering) to as serious as being a protected witness. Granted, there's an irony to the request to use something that doesn't feature her quite so prominently, and Matt's pointing it out is perfectly valid, but I find a greater irony - verging on hypocrisy - in those who trumpet tolerance, diversity and "don't hate" unmitigated intolerance, mocking of another point of view and hateful language.

Some folks need to get a log out of their eye...

Jeff Smith on October 21, 2009 at 1:09 PM

I hate you Geoff. And you too Jeff. You're both idiots, just like the shithead hypocrites in the picture. Your fevered egos are tainting the collective unconscience and forcing us to pay a higher psychic price than we would otherwise have to. Fuck off and die.

Jesus Fucking Christ on October 21, 2009 at 1:14 PM

@JFC -- thank you.

geoff on October 21, 2009 at 1:23 PM

Wait!!! Is that Jeff Smith, Representative of the 47th district? Or just some sanctimonious asshole? But whomever it might be, they don't seem to understand that tolerance and hatred can occur at the same time. I can tolerate people I hate. TA-FUCING-DA! I'm a damn magician. And you can have have diversity with those two as well.

Graham on October 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM

@Graham -- Hatr.

geoff on October 21, 2009 at 1:55 PM

@geoff: What the hell is that suppsed to be?

Graham on October 21, 2009 at 2:00 PM

@graham -- I called you a hater, check it out http://tinyurl.com/yz9ul72

geoff on October 21, 2009 at 2:53 PM

@geoff: Wow... just fucking wow... That has to be the worst examply of LMGTFY ever. Really. EPIC. Did you check out where the link went or what it did? You sir, are a moron! Please, step away from the forced memes and stop. You lost.

Graham on October 21, 2009 at 3:48 PM

She simply said she attended. Possibly she was just acting as an observer for her own edification. If someone snapped a photo of the author of this blog, who apparently also attended, and presented it in the media without noting that he wasn't a batshit-crazy wingnut, would he protest?

Hell, she isn't even protesting, either in the photo or in her email. She's just asking not to be featured on the internet. I'd do this same, I think.

What's more, you don't know that there is any hypocrisy here, even if she is there to actively participate, unless you know for a fact that she has said that her efforts are being ignored. Though you join a group for some purpose, you are not therefore bound by every statement made by every member.

DPirate on October 23, 2009 at 12:49 AM

@graham pwned! sucka!

geoff on October 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM

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