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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Media / News Tea Party Protester: Ignore Me, Specifically?
Posted by Matt Davis on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Yesterday I blogged about Friday's protest by Tea Party protesters, saying they were sick of being ignored by the mainstream media. The article was accompanied by this photo:
Today we got this email:
Date: October 20, 2009 7:44:52 AM PDT
To: news@portlandmercury.com
Subject: Request for Matt DavisHi, Matt. I attended the rally Friday (Operation: Can You Hear Us Now?), and appear in the top photo of the online article. Would it be possible for you to change the photo to one that does not include me? At least so prominently? Thank you.
Is it just me who's noticing the irony, here?
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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.
I will bet anybody $100 that she cannot explain the Commerce Clause of the Constitution without looking it up.
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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)
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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.
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.
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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.
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I was once specifically asked by more than one organizer at an anti-racism rally not to take pictures.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.)
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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...
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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!
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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.
But, ultimately, the relative sense of it doesn't matter. Public event? Deal with the fact that photography of it is allowed.
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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.
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@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.
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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!
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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...
Some folks need to get a log out of their eye...
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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.
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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.
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