League Weekend Reader Opinion Poll

by Scott H. Payne on November 14, 2009

(h/t: Greg Sargent @ The Plum Line)

Tagged as: nancy pelosi, reader opinion poll, tea parties, Tom Perriello

Scott is a sometimes blogger and social media consultant/principal at East Side Media. In addition to writing at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Scott is also a founding member of Beams and Struts and a fellow at the Canadian Council for Democracy's blog the Commons. You can reach Scott via email and follow him on Twiter.

{ 9 comments }

1 Jaybird November 15, 2009 at 12:48 pm

The people burning these effigies are:

A) Representative Of The Tea Partiers Except Only More Honest And They Have The Balls To Do What All Of The Other Cowards Who Show Up At Those Protests Are Too Frightened Or To Hypocritical To Do
B) Obvious Leftist Plants Sent By The Opposition To Discredit An Otherwise Perfectly Normal And Perfectly Acceptable And Perfectly Covered By The First Amendment Protest
C) A Handful Of Nuts Who Are Doing This For Attention And/Or The Equivalent Of Primal Scream Therapy
D) Let Me See What I Said About The ANSWER Protests Shows Up On Google Before I Give My Response

2 MadRocketScientist November 15, 2009 at 12:55 pm

I’d be more offended if it wasn’t for the fact that I can find images & video of numerous US protests where GWB was burned in effigy and people were OK with it. I thought it was tactless back then, I think it is tactless now (just like burning the flag), but the anti-war/anti-Bush protesters decided it was an acceptable form of political protest, so sauce for the goose and all that…

3 Mike Schilling November 15, 2009 at 2:57 pm

I mislike the logic that goes: “If I can find a wacko aligned with the other side who did X, it’s fine for my side to do X too, and it doesn’t make us wackos.”

4 Jaybird November 15, 2009 at 4:29 pm

“Hey, Jesus said ‘let him without sin cast the first stone’! Given that this is the second stone, we’re golden.”

“I think you missed the point of the parable.”

5 Scott November 15, 2009 at 7:14 pm

Where were all the people protesting when the loony left burned
Bush in effigy? Did you protest then or are just protesting now? I remember all the vile thing posted on the net by the left doing the Bush years and back then it was just good clean free speech, now if you say anything about our messiah Obama it is racist hate speech. So please don’t give me any logic lessons.

6 Rufus November 15, 2009 at 8:53 pm

No, perish the thought. But, who’s protesting now? It’s a poll on a blog. Who said anything about Obama? Or racism? Or protesting? Or hate speech? The last thing I ever protested was the price of student parking at my high school back in 1988. Priorities, man!

7 greginak November 15, 2009 at 8:56 pm

okay scott, no more logic lessons for you if you stop pretending anybody thinks obama is some messiah.

8 Cascadian November 15, 2009 at 1:00 pm

Effigy burning is good clean fun. Where would Mardi Gras be without it? As long as were not doing mock lynchings and adding a further cultural element, it seems as innocuous as flag burning.

9 Rufus November 15, 2009 at 8:48 pm

Have you ever been to Danville, Virginia? There’s really nothing else to do there but burn effigies and hang around until you bump into Mojo Nixon.

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