Will Teabaggers be offended by the minaret in the 2012 RNC logo?

[Oreo]

Cross-posted from DemConWatch



Matt posted an update to yesterday's post about the unveiling of the 2012 Republican National Convention Host Committee's logo. If you look at the buildings you may notice a minaret.

The actual building is part of the Tampa Bay Hotel and opened in 1891.

The newspapers of the day described it as "brightly illuminated, filled with sumptuous decorations, thrilling music and graced with turrets, domes and minarets towering heavenward and glistening in the sun."

Now any sane person wouldn't think twice about putting a minaret into a logo. The question is will the same people that are protesting mosques approve of their party's biggest event having what they probably consider an Islamic image in its logo?

Another question is who will be the Convention Czar?

Should this become an issue with the Tea Party it will only confirm just how crazy the Republican party has become.

[hedgehog]

1. Proof once again that most artists are leftists!

:evilgrin:

[BrklynLiberal]

2. This should be come interesting. Let's see if anything is said

[and-justice-for-all]

3. That is hilarious....I await the pukes exploding heads..nt

[babylonsister]

4. Nice catch! nt

[Turborama]

8. +1

You took the words out of my mouth.

[Scurrilous]

23. ...

[TheWraith]

5. Kicked and recommended!

Not to mention that big red palm tree looks an awful lot like one of them there Soviet stars! Paging Batshit Beck!

[MineralMan]

6. Nice Red Star, too.

Haha!

[Furiousliberal]

9. Neat

WoW! I didn't see that at first. I think that can really piss them off. :)

[Furiousliberal]

7. They will be offended

I think they will be offended and protest or whatever it is that tea-baggers do when something that has to do with Islam gets to close to them.

[Oreo]

11. I'm working hard to get the word out

This is only going to work if teabaggers find out about it. I'm trying to seed it on Twitter in the teabagger tags

[Mac1949]

10. Sorry, but it's not a minaret. It's an onion dome.

It represents the architecture of the University of Tampa. History of the buildings here: http://www.ut.edu/history

[babylonsister]

12. Shhh. Who cares?

:D

[NYC Liberal]

13. Don't tell them that. Tell them it's a minaret.

Let them make this a big issue and keep the infighting in the GOP going.

[Oreo]

15. Close enough for a teabagger

Do you think they know the difference?

surrounded by ornate Victorian gingerbread and topped by Moorish minarets, domes and cupolas.

They'd probably be just as mad at "one of them ther domes like on the Kremlin"

[Erose999]

16. You know where else they have onion domes? The Kremlin. Know what else they have there? Socialism nt

[Mac1949]

18. Oops! My bad. What was I thinking! You're right.

Let the teabagger types chase chimeras. It keeps them out of trouble.:toast: :hi:

[Erose999]

20. Yeah they love jousting at windmills, lol

Maybe we should get the artist to put a windmill in there, too. Like the ones they have in the Low Countries... where they also have "socialism".

[Scurrilous]

K & R

:thumbsup:

[Gold Metal Flake]

14. Minarets and pentagrams.

[KamaAina]

17. Seems to be a pattern here

the 'pukes held their 1984 convention in New Orleans, which a) has a neighborhood named "Algiers", and b) is known as the "Crescent City". :tinfoilhat:

[msanthrope]

19. It's a minaret, all right.....

http://2012tampa.com/

[kskiska]

21. They don't seem to mind the crescent on the SC flag

[hvn_nbr_2]

22. Send that logo to Glen Beck for analysis

Glenbaby is probably the only person perspicacious enough to notice the Hitler mustache too. (It's the crossbar in the 'B' in "Tampa Bay".)

[SoCalDem]

24. They probably thought it was a casino

[rucky]

25. I am 100% certain that is a Mosque.

I am outraged, I tell ya. And I will now make much hay of it.

[SpiralHawk]

26. Pharisee Towers (R)

What hypocrites