Where's Waldo?

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Where's Waldo? And by that I mean, find the black people at Glen Beck's Rally.



It's a fun game and you can play it with all the photos I found on http://dc.about.com/od/protestsandrallies/ss/Glen-Beck-Rally-Pictures.htm

In case you need a clue, there is one gentleman in the upper left-center wearing a badge, presumably telling the white woman where to find the restroom.

[Edited for the benefit of Htpcl]

Comments

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

You've framed a lot of that as factual that they simply don't agree with. Let's be honest, the fact that they're using "socialist" in place of "economic interventionist" doesn't do much to defeat their argument that the health care bill was a bad idea - it's just stupid adherence to semantics in what is clearly not an academic debate. The taxation issue is legitimate in some ways, seeing as how the penalties for NOT buying health insurance comes in the form of a tax, and the Bush tax cuts are set to expire. Moreover, they are arguing at least in part that the deficit spending Obama is doing will drive up taxes in the future, or for their children. They would also argue that the US has not always been secular, and there are a plethora of official recognitions of God and religion to point to that side. Finally, spending and government I've always seen as a "boiling point" issue - when Bush pushed through the first stimulus package during the recent downturn, there was a lot of rage from conservatives, too. Obama merely doubled down on Bush's bet and thus drew even more ire, and also lacked some of the leftover fondness that conservatives felt for Bush's previous policies (social and foreign) to take the edge off.

Basically what you've done is presume you've already won all those arguments in ways that cannot possibly be refuted, and then declared the only other option (racism) the reality. That's just shoddy debate, and a straw man of epic proportions. Like super epic. And the sad part is, I generally agree that there's a less-than-desirable undertone to the Tea Party; you just do a terrible job presenting the argument.

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Those arguments cannot be refuted without ignoring fact.