The Cheap Miserly Petty Party "Outraged" Over Free Teeshirts!

[Joanne98]

TUCSON, AZ -- Some conservatives are upset over t-shirts bearing the logo "Together We Thrive: Tucson & America" that were handed out to attendees at tonight's memorial service in the McKale Center on the campus of the University Of Arizona here.

The shirts, which bear the same logo that adorns other items from the event -- including press passes, signage and volunteer t-shirts -- were placed on many of the seats in the lower sections of the arena when tonight's capacity crowd walked in.

The University Of Arizona did not immediately respond to requests for more information on the shirts, which are drawing fire in the conservative twitter- and blogosphere tonight. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. A person familiar with the event confirmed the university put the event together, and was responsible for t-shirts, tickets, fliers, etc.


"I'm having a physical reaction to the T-shirts," Amanda Carpenter, a speech writer for Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) tweeted tonight. "I'm tearing up. This feels wrong."

(The tweet has since been deleted.)


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[babylonsister]

1. Whaaa, whaaa, and double whaaa. That's all they got? nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. See, the T-shirts are blue - Dem, according to Lamestream Media; that make the Repubs Red Shirts

and we know the Red Shirts were the first to get shot at in Star Trek! It's all a massive conspiracy by the Lame Stream Media, I tell ya, to make Republicans the targets for evil galactic aliens!

[Joanne98]

3. LOL

[FSogol]

4. Maybe the could of passed out red bootstraps for the Repubs?

:shrug:

[fasttense]

5. I bet they wouldn't have said a word if they gave out those horrible

T-shirts with Palin on them that encouraged violence.

It's just the getting along and living together idea they object to.