7000 Armed, Anti Gun-Control Protesters Protest Obama In Roseburg Oregon!

[TrollBuster9090]

Er...well, there were 7000 RSVPs on the protest Facebook page. So what if only six people showed up? (And three of them only showed up because they thought it was a lineup to buy Ted Nugent tickets.) Three people waving Gadsden flags around is usually enough to send half the members of Congress to the washroom to change their underwear. Especially after Fox News has spliced in a few crowd shots from a Moral Monday protest to make it LOOK like there were 7000 people there...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-roseburg-shooting-armed-protesters

[B Calm]

1. MSNBC showed it live and I cracked up at their small crowd.

[Fred Sanders]

2. As predicted....much like the Million Trucker Washington Convoy ended up with a dozen confused

truckers looking for directions to the "rally"!

Why again is Fox allowed to exist??

[GGJohn]

8. "Why again is Fox allowed to exist??"

Ummmm, because there's this pesky right called the 1st Amendment?

[GGJohn]

12. What?

Try making some sense so I can understand what you're trying to say.

[TrollBuster9090]

18. There also used to be a pesky thing called the Fairness Doctrine, and the U.S. political system

worked much better when the FCC was enforcing it. In fact, it worked so well that Reagan just HAD to kill it, thus giving birth to this monster known as Fox News.

[GGJohn]

20. The Fairness Doctrine was needed when there was no internet, only 3-4 stations,

now, there are a myriad of sources for news.
Let me put it this way, would you want the Rachael Maddow show being forced to host a RW'er for a counter point?

[TrollBuster9090]

22. The answer is yes. As I said, the political system was FAR less polarized and dysfunctional when

when the Fairness Doctrine was in force. And the Fairness Doctrine didn't apply to newspapers or other publications. Just broadcasts over public airwaves. The idea being that bandwidth is a public resource that shouldn't be monopolized or distorted by one political view. If somebody wanted to print propagandistic newspapers, magazines and newsletters that was fine. But broadcasts over a limited bandwidth were different. And nobody made the argument that if you didn't like propaganda on the public airwaves, you were free to just go and buy a newspaper with a different viewpoint. I'd say today the internet, and even (to a lesser extent) cable news would be the equivalent of newspapers. But radio and television broadcasts should still be subject to the FD.

After the fairness doctrine was killed off, right wing propaganda radio and television stations sprang up, and were unopposed for about 15 years. Then left wingers began to fight back with propagandistic stations of their own; and now we've gotten to the point where 'both sides' are deeply entrenched, and never even hear opposing views. It's no coincidence that the government has become both polarized and paralyzed since the loss of the Fairness Doctrine.

[GGJohn]

23. You do realize that the Fairness Doctrine wouldn't apply to cable stations don't you?

FCC has no authority over cable or internet stations, of which most RW "news" org. operate.

What makes you think that those that watch Faux would stay and listen to a viewpoint they don't agree with?
Likewise with the Rachael Maddow show?

Nope, with the advent of the Internet, there are literally thousands upon thousands of differing viewpoints, that makes the FD irrelevant.

[Lizzie Poppet]

3. Nice to see my state's not as infested with idiots as I feared.

Still plenty of idiots...and people who wear patriotism on their shirtsleeves (or heads, as the case may be), but can't be bothered to learn the Flag Code.

[roguevalley]

17. i hear you. :D I also love Roseburg. My dad's brother lived there and had a

mint farm. Its lonely land through there.

[TrollBuster9090]

19. Actually, Oregon is an absolutely awesome State. The crazies comprise a very very small

minority, and the majority of people just ignore their crackpottery. I'm not at all surprised that a good squeeze of the teabag only managed to yield nine people in a sensible place like Oregon.

[davidpdx]

25. Very true

I spent most of my life in Oregon, from the time I was around 4 until I was 31 and moved to Korea (I wasn't born there). That area is familiar to me because it close to where I lived when I was growing up. The town I lived in was very hick and racist. When I was 20 I moved up to Portland and lived there 11 years. I was able to meet all kinds of different people. I very much miss Oregon.

[Scuba]

4. Six people, 7,000 boogers.

[LuvNewcastle]

26. ...

[Fairgo]

5. and not one cogent thought between them

You can almost hear the idiot wind blowing through their skulls.

[olddots]

6. now who wouldn't be sexually aroused

just looking at these beautiful people ?

[former9thward]

9. I wish people who insult others based on looks

would be required to post their own picture. Now that would be revealing.

[Logical]

13. Depressing that liberals make fun of looks even here. Nt

[Logical]

14. So you dont think DUers are unattractive? How classy! Nt

[streakr]

7. Out of work loggers

and meth-heads.

[pediatricmedic]

10. 9 people, 1 weapon, 1 gadsden flag, no major spelling errors, underwelming

[ryan_cats]

15. Where was

Where was this guy?

I appreciate their respect for the flag with their do rags.

[0rganism]

16. the idiots are loud but lazy

hey it's a lot of work toting that kind of bulk around.
gotta go with a lawnchair protest

[fadedrose]

21. I was afraid for Obama to visit Oregon

Don't want to see my President shot....and if I were in charge, he would not have gone there.

Good thing I'm not in charge and the man made up his mind to go and did go, showing courage because it was told that there were 7000 protesters there.

[alcibiades_mystery]

24. Gun nut trash... The usual

[spanone]

27. 'go back to kenya' why not just hold a sign that says 'i'm a dumbass'?