Let’s play, ‘Imagine If A Democrat Had Said This’

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Good on him. Liberals protest whenever they get the chance so why shouldn't republicans. Time we give liberals a taste of their own medicine and disrupt their lives as they have done for so many years. Force our opinion down their throats for a change.

yeah mannnnnn..... protesting is hip. As long as it's liberally motivated.

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Rush Limbaugh- a Right Wing Conservative- says riots within in the Democratic Party would be good for the Republican party (True), so Liberals will go ahead and listen to Rush and start Rioting....Because democrats always do what Rush hopes they will do. Well, actually a lot of times they do.

So turn that around and imagine the reaction if someone on the left comparable to Limbaugh (Michael Moore) were to use the same type of sarcasm and tell people to go riot at the Republican Convention. That is the whole crux of this thread. The Right would have a field day with it...and people like Sean Hannity would be demanding Moore be arrested for terrorism.

So, the point of this whole thread is that if a democratic commentator was to make a statement supporting a riot by the Republicans, right wing commentators would be up in arms, perhaps leading to angry articles being written, television news reports, and general uproar by right wing websites-

you mean like what the left is doing now?

Right wing pundits have a propensity to take things out of context. Do you really think Sharpton was threatening to start a riot at the Democratic Convention?

Yeah your right. Left wing pundits would never do that. BTW, Rush wasn't even talking about Sharpton. The left wing pundits got it wrong again. He was talking about this.

Recreate ‘68 threatens Democrat convention in Denver

By Michelle Malkin • March 21, 2008 09:46 AM

“When things blow up because the police have to enforce a permit that the Democrats got, don’t blame us for that.”

Remember that quote. Protest organizers from “Recreate ‘68″ are throwing a tantrum over the Democrat Party’s permit process. Will they ignore it as an idle threat? Or, keeping in mind the history of left-wing violence against law enforcement, will they take the nutballs seriously for once? Via the Rocky Mountain News (hat tip - reader Katharine):

Denver could face a “dangerous situation” on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, war protesters said Thursday, after losing a coveted permit for Civic Center to the convention host committee.

“When things blow up because the police have to enforce a permit that the Democrats got, don’t blame us for that,” said Glenn Spagnuolo, an organizer for the Re-create 68 Alliance.

“Blame the Democrats for trying to silence dissent in the city of Denver.”

The lottery for permits to protest, pray or hold other events in city parks during the DNC Aug. 24 through 28 resumed Thursday after the city bungled the drawing Tuesday by accidentally leaving out some of the applicants’ names.

The do-over went smoothly.

But when Jenny Anderson, event planner for the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee, won the permit for Civic Center for a kick-off Aug. 24, Spagnuolo accused the committee of creating a “very serious, dangerous situation . . . for everybody.”

Re-create 68 - which has promised demonstrations that will rival those at the bloody 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago - will be at Civic Center on Aug. 24, with or without a permit, he said.

Via Wolf, more coverage from the Denver Post:

War protesters promised a massive conflict at Civic Center on the eve of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, after losing in a lottery process Thursday that awarded a permit for the park to the party planner for Denver’s host committee.

“We’re having our protest at Civic Center,” said a livid Glenn Spagnuolo, a lead organizer for the group Re-create 68. “We’re not going to give up Civic Center park to the Democrats. . . . They are creating a very dangerous situation.”

Re-create 68 and its affiliates packed the random lottery with applications to better its chances, but the single entry by Jenny Anderson for the host committee won for Sunday, Aug. 24. The convention will be held Aug. 25-28 at the Pepsi Center.

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Spagnuolo has been meeting monthly with city officials for a year, hoping to win the right to use Civic Center throughout the convention. He says 50,000 war protesters are coming for a march from Civic Center to the Pepsi Center on Aug. 24.

He said Thursday that he would not respect the host committee’s permit and would occupy the park, even if it forced police to intervene.

Referring to the $50 million in federal security money slated for the convention, Spagnuolo said Denver police would need “$25 million to protect the Pepsi Center and $25 million to protect Civic Center.”

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/21/recre...tion-in-denver/

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For clarity sake.... (from a Denver news station)

DENVER -- Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is sparking controversy again after he made comments that appear to call for riots in Denver during the Democratic National Convention this summer.

He said the riots would ensure a Democrat is not elected as president, and his listeners have a responsibility to make sure it happens.

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Limbaugh cited Al Sharpton, saying the Barack Obama supporter threatened to superdelegates that "there's going to be trouble" if the presidency is taken from Obama.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15980105/detail.html

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Now maybe some of his fans think Limbaugh was making funny here but I don't see it, particularly in connection with his earlier plea to his listeners to switch party affiliations and vote for Hillary in the open Primaries to create havoc for the Democratic Party. I hope the city of Denver holds him liable if there is any trouble. There are rogue groups out there like Protest Warrior who diguise themselves as supporters for Democratic candidates...they showed up at the last Democratic Convention. We'll see how this unravels.

Edited April 27, 2008 by Jabberwocky