Protesting Sarah Palin in Philadelphia

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factotumxo says:

yay that is me
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

onlinewoman says:

Well I have to say, this really disappoints me. I just wrote an article about how immature McCain and Palin are, how this is a fight for America, and bigoted behaviors shouldn't be tolerated by the right. Now, I get this link from someone on the right saying what "class" Democrats have.. he says "too bad its third class".

You seem pretty young, but its truly no excuse for this type of behavior. I don't at all agree with Palin as a politician, but as a woman, she has made strides that will hopefully help women move higher in the future.

Too bad you don't seem to respect the boundaries between politics and hate.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

kevipott says:

Why is the left so intolerant of others? This is disgusting and vile behavior. Whatever you might think about Palin, she certainly has more class than these two morons. I'll bet their parents are soooo proud.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

dippydippydoo says:

Hmmm.. rethinking the whole abortion thing based on this photo.

As someone said earlier, your parents must be VERY PROUD. They probably wasted a lot of money on an "education" for their little pride & joy & this is the end result of what your tiny little brain could come up with as a way of political rebuttal. Kudos.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

concrete angel says:

This type of behavior is why many people have such a poor opinion of liberals and Democrats. And you're supposed to be the tolerant ones. I'd be ashamed. Total lack of tact and class.

Albeit as disgusting as it is, being in America, you are certainly entitled to your opinion and have the right to express it. As a matter of fact, Sarah Palin's son, Track, is in the military defending your right to wear your repulsive shirt.

morons.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Nekeesorf says:

It would be nice if this were an isolated case of anti-Palin vitriol. Unfortunately, it's not unusual:

michellemalkin.com/2008/10/12/crush-the-obame dia-narrativ...

Disgusting.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

poppie5 says:

I am really worried about the future of this country, with youth like you.
Brainwashed by the liberal media, with no respect for other people, especially those that you don't agree with.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

PEzra says:

Tolerance and progressivism at its best, am I right?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

mach_man03 says:

No surprise here. Just typical liberal tolerance expressed the only way they know how.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Lester Bugfied says:

Man that is one ugly chick on the left. Oh it's a dude!. When it comes to libtards does it even matter.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

jconner04 says:

Hey you two little brave turds...real cool to show up in a t-shirt slamming Palin. Fair enough-free speech and all. I wonder how you guys mom likes that talk? Little girly man--would you fight someone who called your woman that? I don't think so. Second question-- would any of you libs have a prob. w/a t-shirt sayng Obama is a communist or I don't know any other bad label?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Our Lady Of Perpetual Outrage [deleted] says:

Elitists with Market Pantry bottled water. How quaint.

Btw, the word "cunt" is Dutch. It means vagina. The boob on the right owns one. No balls on the left. Typical.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

iliveinthesouth says:

SAD. Do you guys have any sense? Do you know that this picture will now stay with you for the rest of your lives? It will resurface when you are looking for a job, reference, teaching your children, etc. Your youth is no excuse for the huge amount of STUPIDITY you both have shown. Also, your hypocrisy will follow you now forever. It's one thing to disagree with a political party but this goes beyond disagreement.

oh yeah - and did you know that plastic water bottles are bad for the environment.

To ONLINEWOMAN - I would hope that at some point you add a paragraph and let your readers know that disgusting behavior isn't owned by the right. This is a perfect example.

This has been linked on Michelle Malkin dot com and you guys are now the poster child for tolerance.

I need to go take a bath now. Hopefully one day you will have a change of heart in the way you choose to show your political flavor.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

RFA3936 says:

Come to my neighborhood you little twits. I'll risk assault charges just to teach you some manners. Obviously you never got any discipline from your mommy who probably really is a C*nt for raising a dolt like you.

Dunderhead!!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

march_haire says:

Clearly making fun of you two will illustrate how wrong and bad you're being on the internet.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Dick Whitman says:

It's digital now and forever. Try and run for office or become something besides sad.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

FairNYC says:

What's amazing is the fact that none of them are Dems - they're all Libertarians!! LOLOLOL

I don't know who hates Palin more - the Ron Paul supporters or the people backing Bob Barr.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

FairNYC says:

poppie5 and everyone else who thinks they are Liberals - they're not. She was interviewed, she's a Right Wing loon supporting Obama. Her name is Rhiannon Volpe, Politico covered her.

www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Jake_Tap pers_questio...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

superbu1 says:

This sort of thing is why, just this year, I left the Democratic party after 25 years, my whole adult life. I am now a registered Republican. I don't know what my former party has become -- I no longer recognize it. This is NOT the party of Kennedy and Roosevelt and Clinton. It's the party of the Obama Fascists. Isn't it odd how the liberal media rarely report this sort of thing from Dems? Only when Republicans say something offensive (or, more often, when they try to twist their words into something offensive) does it get reported. Thanks to people like you, I will be voting Republican down the line this year. If the candidate has an "R" next to his name, he's getting me vote.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

FairNYC says:

superbu1:

None of them are Democrats, read about them on Politico and get the real story for heavens sakes.

They are Libertarians.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

FairNYC says:

www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Jake_Tap pers_questio...

If you want to discuss politics - get the facts. We're Americans, we always demand to know the real story, at least I do.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

iliveinthesouth says:

FAIRNYC - is a "Right Wing loon" a Libertarian or a Republican? Either way - they are know-nothing jerks who are going to get a kick in the face with reality for their stupidity. Or they will probably switch to the Dem party and be respected citizens.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

FairNYC says:

iliveinthesouth:

I was referring to a Libertarian - you know so Far Right they are Left. LOLOLOL
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

TheSchwartz1 says:

Good luck in the future you edgy, ironic hipsters. Your photos (and personal ID for one of you) are permanently in the intertubes.

I'm sure potential employers are just fighting over who gets to hire you.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

quixoticlife says:

Wow -- I just want to follow up all of the comments above with a few things:

First, I took the picture, but I don't know these people and so your comments about/to them aren't reaching your intended audience. There were lots of other folks taking pictures of them too but I guess somehow my photo got noticed.

That said, I agree with a lot of what has been said about their objectionability. I included them in my photos because they were a pretty visible part of the protest, not because I agreed with them -- but I had actually reconsidered after having a discussion with some other folks, and was coming on here to delete the photo. Now that I see all of these comments, I think maybe I might leave it up as a public record ... but I'm feeling mixed about that.

I don't usually buy into the "civilized discourse" argument -- that is, that we should treat all people with respect, even when they're engaged in passing dehumanizing and inhumane policies. (As Tony Kushner says, civic discourse is more important than civil discourse.) But treating someone who supports wars of imperialism or subjugating entire swathes of the population because of their citizenship status or love interests with justified contempt isn't quite the same as invoking misogynist language against someone you disagree with.

So for now I'm going to leave this up so people can continue to discuss and comment on it. But I'm willing to be swayed into taking it down or posting a censored version if it's simply too triggering to people. I'd especially be interested in hearing from women, since I'm a guy, and I don't want to make assumptions about what's triggering to women.

For the record, I'm not a Democrat or a Republican (or a Libertarian, for that matter).
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

crazyc_37115 says:

peaceful and tolerant liberals?

say no to socialism.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

FairNYC says:

crazyc_37115 says:

Again, they are not liberals, they are Libertarians.

www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Jake_Tap pers_questio...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

redwillowkodenkan says:

They are not libertarians, they are morons who think the word sounds cool. If they were libertarians, they wouldn't be supporting Obama.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

quixoticlife says:

I've taken this image down from Flickr, but you can still see the original linked from my blog post discussing many of the issues commented above:

quixoticlife.net/palin
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

ktraver8 says:

Libertarians you say? How about pull your head out of your butt and do a little research. Miss Volpe (one of the shirt creators) is no Libertarian - 74.125.113.104/search?q=cache:XGEEOCymtNkJ:do nate.baracko...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

kmccook1 says:

It's Larry Flynt ( Palin movie); it's Rhiannon-Marie Volpe (mysogynist T-shirt) , it's Erica Jong (Huffington Post screed calling Palin a white trash dream), it's Gary Kamiya ( Slate calling Palin a dominatrix)....
After this is over women are going to have very little trust that women give themselves any role beyond cheerleader support staff against other women. It didn't begin with Palin. It began with Hillary--remember Randi Rhodes calling Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton F****** W*****? .
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Our Lady Of Perpetual Outrage [deleted] says:

Quixo, trust me, Rhiannon-Marie Valpo (in the photo) has placed her t-shirts at every independent on-line selling site. She has her own "Sarah Palin is a C***" website at Myspace and she also has her own website as a connection. Her father's Myspace also has her as a link. She is very much aware of what's going on.

Factotumxo, at the top, is your gal, Rhiannon. Say hello to the world, Rhiannon!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

poppie5 says:

Quixo- I am a woman and YOU are DISGUSTING, to eve DEBATE whether it is ok to leave those type of photo's posted!!
You are a COWARD, pretending that you have no party and that you had nothing to do with these photo's!
What has become of men?!
Thank God, my own husband is a conservative who RESPECTS women!!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Our Lady Of Perpetual Outrage [deleted] says:

Poppie, he TOOK the photo. There are others just like his with the same two idiots in it, plus two more idiots who join them. All available on Myspace, btw. He's not at fault. I'd rather know what's going on than be left in the dark. It's the poseurs that are the problem, not the photographer.

T-Shirt bimbo's site: www.myspace.com/sarahpalin_is_a_cunt

She's also located at the top of this page.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

msspurlock says:

You BDS/PDS carriers are diseased with hatred.

Sick, hypocritical, sexist, racist, left-wing Nazis.

You think all this hate isn't going to catch up with you?

You think it won't lead to Northern Ireland existence where you have to worry about a bomb under your car?

Grow up, get a job and better yet, get professional help.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

poppie5 says:

Okay, I'm here to apologise, I shouted at the wrong guy. I should have wrung the two on the photo's necks.
Sorry.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Our Lady Of Perpetual Outrage [deleted] says:

www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=vid eolandingpag...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

hmaxwell says:

As a woman, here is why this word revs my temper into the red zone and pins it there:

C*** is a word that means vagina. Which only women have--obviously. Yet in American English it is one of the most hateful words, if not the most hateful, that you could ever hurl at those of the female persuasion.

So basically, the most awful, disgusting, vile epithet you can shout at a woman is to call her...a woman. It's the ultimate put down--noting out loud and publicly that this person you are keen to insult not only has a vagina, she IS one.

In using such a word, these folks are calling the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate *woman* with a lower case "w," and using her woman-ness as a cudgel to beat her back into her place. It was the worst thing they could come up with at that moment (and it takes no great imagination, trust me). Worse still is the fact these mental giants pictured above are trying to remind Gov. Palin and everyone else that, though she aspires to one of the highest offices in the land, she is *JUST A WOMAN.* That makes me see red. To call these spoiled children ass hats is to insult asses everywhere.

Think I'm overreacting? It is not coincidental that some of the worst insults directed at men in America follow on this theme: p***y, c**k sucker, etc. Again, the vilest terms involve either female genitals or something that women do to male genitals. In addition to women, these words are hurled by idiotic people at gay men or any man said idiots wish to denigrate by lowing their station to...woman. Or rather, JUST A WOMAN.

Seeing a trend here? The nasty, misogynistic sub-text of colloquial English in America makes many of us want to puke. Including those of us who are not normally pegged to be card-carrying feminists.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

hmaxwell says:

Having said all of the above, I want to point out I will strongly defend the right of anyone to use such words if they so desire, being that we live in America and not Afghanistan under Taliban rule. However, I reserve the right to instantly dismiss the intelligence, morals, and/or common decency of the person who throws these words around as an effort to shame or degrade anyone, male or female. And I will point out how much worse their offense is because they are directing these hate-filled words at a woman whose only crime is to hold views with which they disagree. I mean, really--have we sunk so low?

Signed,

A disgusted Independent who is tired of the petulance, intolerance, and cruelty on both sides of the aisle.

PS Lest you think I'm completely devoid of humor, I will point out that in most of the other former English Colonies, w/the exception of Canada, c*** does not have the baggage it does in America. It is more in line with "chick" or something. One time I walked into a bar in Australia accompanied by my new friend, a statuesque and lovely German girl. The bartender looked her up and down with admiration and said "You're a tall c***, aren't you?" He was not being insulting; the word just means something different down under. However, mention the word "fanny" to them (as in fanny pack) and watch them wince. I found it quite hilarious, and confess I regularly asked my English and Australian friends where my fanny pack was just to watch their reaction. It's another humorous case of people divided by a common language.

PPS @Our Lady, re: your first comment. You rock. You receive the "belly laugh of the day" award!
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