tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post7401759476430623399..comments2024-03-19T03:55:23.248-05:00Comments on Althouse: Wisconsin protesters disrupt a Special Olympics ceremony!Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23077801197797674482011-06-10T09:59:20.082-05:002011-06-10T09:59:20.082-05:00Hey, I think I get it now. The protesters were dem...Hey, I think I get it now. The protesters were demanding that Governor Walker respect the dead-and their right to vote for Democrats.SecondComingOfBasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03336586430250490679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76755888859212916062011-06-09T12:01:06.032-05:002011-06-09T12:01:06.032-05:00Make-believe Zombies protesting the governor is ac...Make-believe Zombies protesting the governor is actually LESS offensive than protestors lined up along busy thoroughfares with huge posters of aborted babies. After all, if I want to keep my kids from seeing a political protest then I can keep them away from the state capital and the most prominent political figure in the state, but if I want to keep them from seeing revolting pictures of the holocaust of abortion, then I’m just out of luck, because you never know where those will show up.The Dutchmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15634052176803455348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18692034296324537722011-06-09T11:59:34.544-05:002011-06-09T11:59:34.544-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.The Dutchmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15634052176803455348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54536451402898407002011-06-09T11:58:39.053-05:002011-06-09T11:58:39.053-05:00Ann Althouse says:
"A PR person gives PR to ...Ann Althouse says:<br /><br />"A PR person gives PR to a group she either supports or for political/$ reasons she does not want to disparage. The idea that this is the last word on the appropriateness of the demonstration is perfectly silly."<br /><br />I think the video speaks for itself, which shows a bunch of self-entitled babies who can't stand the fact that anything else would take the spotlight away from their meaningless, makeshift revolution. <br /><br />As I said in another thread, the entire world wasn't watching Madison back in February and March, because unlike most every other place in the world, the left's social strife in Madison is petty and self-serving. <br /><br />Why don't these students in Madison protest against the fraudulent landlords, or the over-priced organic supermarkets and cafes, instead of expecting the rest of the population to flip the bill?foxtrothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02657658712839355696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73622655269740052332011-06-09T11:28:56.883-05:002011-06-09T11:28:56.883-05:00"A PR person gives PR to a group she either s..."A PR person gives PR to a group she either supports or for political/$ reasons she does not want to disparage. The idea that this is the last word on the appropriateness of the demonstration is perfectly silly."<br /><br />Althouse says that the Special Olympics PR person avoided disparaging the protesting groups because she is maintaining some sort of symbiotic relationship w/ the protestors. Walker's actions must have caused the Special Olympics person to have a relationship w/ the gov such that she would publicly give cover to the protestors rather than support the GOP partisans' assertion that some injustice was done to the very few Olympians who attended the gov's well produced, prop-enhanced propaganda event. She cares about the Olympians well being, not the gov's well being. Which means that she has the opposite POV of Althouse and most commenters in this thread. I hope she has the last word. She's actually trying to help the Olympians. And, she was actually at the event. That's two points better than the GOP hacks in this thread.Sprezzaturahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859397164637821056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44431276600324820612011-06-09T11:07:54.675-05:002011-06-09T11:07:54.675-05:00@Professor Althouse: Certainly. But one would thin...@Professor Althouse: Certainly. But one would think that she is paid to represent the viewpoint of the organization and its constituents. You seem to imply that this (ooga booga) _paid_ PR person is acting independent of the Special Olympics staff in making these statements. My hunch is that the Special Olympics carefully considers how they advocate and represent their base. I don't think the link between this "PR" person and the message of the organization is so attenuated that it should not be taken into account.<br /><br />The staff of the Special Olympics did not seem to be offended by this protest and maybe that original assumption was wrong. <br /><br /> <br />Upon initial viewing, I too thought this was a poorly timed and an offensive moment for protest. Upon further reflection -- it seems that it may have been entirely appropriate.Oglebayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11237386754482796454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29528801289072979202011-06-09T10:48:19.854-05:002011-06-09T10:48:19.854-05:00"Kelly Kloepping, vice-president of communica..."Kelly Kloepping, vice-president of communications for Special Olympics Wisconsin, said the protesters were respectful and caused no disruption."<br /><br />A PR person gives PR to a group she either supports or for political/$ reasons she does not want to disparage. The idea that this is the last word on the appropriateness of the demonstration is perfectly silly.Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45843661749591061042011-06-09T10:21:53.017-05:002011-06-09T10:21:53.017-05:00Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! ...Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel!<br /><br />Damn it, stop noticing the rudeness!<br /><br />Squirrel!Martin L. Shoemakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02554126977342152497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21745633337669863662011-06-09T09:45:05.253-05:002011-06-09T09:45:05.253-05:00I too, originally thought this was poorly timed......I too, originally thought this was poorly timed...But apparently, Kelly Kloepping, vice-president of communications for Special Olympics Wisconsin, said the protesters were respectful and caused no disruption: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_94a2b5fa-a0bc-5d69-9097-55ff3de76569.html<br /><br />Maybe the organization felt that way because of this: http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/123374903.htmlOglebayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11237386754482796454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84168157433279372672011-06-09T09:36:01.710-05:002011-06-09T09:36:01.710-05:00Issob Morocco said...
The woman in black at the en...Issob Morocco said...<br /><i>The woman in black at the end of the clip looks very much like the professional agitator from the desecration of the Veteran's memorial back in March. Harriet Blair Rowan. Let me know if I am wrong.</i><br /><br />I think you're probably right, Issob. <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/03/wisconsin-capitol-closes-at-6-no-more.html" rel="nofollow">Here</a>, starting at about 3:45, is a short interview I had with Harriet back in March.Meadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00117933390338651739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56859801112738025772011-06-09T09:31:57.188-05:002011-06-09T09:31:57.188-05:00There is a time and a place for everything.
This ...There is a time and a place for everything.<br /><br />This was neither the time nor the place for a zombie protest.Known Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029003649395214104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18447500995886305052011-06-09T09:09:55.321-05:002011-06-09T09:09:55.321-05:00I remember when Ann Althouse was reasonable and pr...I remember when Ann Althouse was reasonable and pragmatic. Now this site is filled with Vicki McKenna level propaganda. What the hell happened? From the <a href="http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_94a2b5fa-a0bc-5d69-9097-55ff3de76569.html" rel="nofollow">Wisconsin State Journal</a>:<br /><br />"Kelly Kloepping, vice-president of communications for Special Olympics Wisconsin, said the protesters were respectful and caused no disruption."Jerichohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11356333631927417731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11748768231203953912011-06-09T09:00:43.620-05:002011-06-09T09:00:43.620-05:00"Don't forget that per-student costs for ..."Don't forget that per-student costs for public schools include special ed,"<br /><br />So lame, same thing tried in MA, the math never bears out the TU's claims, ever. The use of "special ed" students to pad their fucking retirement pkgs is just one more reason the TU's should be disbanded. We know what you really think of Special needs kids, we saw it yesterday. But you're not above milking their plight to further enrich your political allies. Lowlife bottom-feeders, all of you.Lincolntfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04620264736967842427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64630894914130102602011-06-09T08:49:41.023-05:002011-06-09T08:49:41.023-05:00Bad link above.
How about This One.Bad link above.<br /><br />How about <a href="http://www.disabilityrightswi.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/response-to-proposed-education-budget.pdf" rel="nofollow"> This One</a>.Sprezzaturahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859397164637821056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67982297814522074972011-06-09T08:47:59.493-05:002011-06-09T08:47:59.493-05:00Synova,
If BHO has a well produced and well prop ...Synova,<br /><br />If BHO has a well produced and well prop enhanced photo-op supposedly honoring Special Olympians where there are barely any Olympians, but a bunch of reporters, at the same time <a href="http://www.disabilityrightswi.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/response-to-proposed-education-budget.pdf." rel="nofollow"> he's moving money out of the public system w/ special ed programs, so he can fund higher income families w/ kids in private schools</a>.<br /><br />BTW, do you, like Walker, support taking money out of the public schools, which are required to provide expensive special ed programs (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuals_with_Disabilities_Education_Act" rel="nofollow">including paying for many kinds of medical treatments, including speech therapy, audiology, physical therapy, and nursing)</a>, so that the non-special kids of higher income families can use this money to go to private schools? To be a level playing field (assuming you don't want remove special ed requirements from public schools) all of the private schools that directly drain revenue from the public schools by accepting vouchers should also be required to provide special education. Don't forget that per-student costs for public schools include special ed, a useful evaluation of the cost differences between public and private schools would look at kids who have comparably expensive education needs, i.e. compare non-special ed to non-special ed.Sprezzaturahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859397164637821056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-89202645611152291392011-06-09T08:26:02.899-05:002011-06-09T08:26:02.899-05:00PbandJ, etc. display the lack of character and the...PbandJ, etc. display the lack of character and the moral cowardice that we've always recognized in the Left. Can't even acknowledge that his side is wrong without reflexive attempts at deflection to Walker, etc. They can't admit that they're flawed in any way or their entire worldview is shattered. I'd rather have any one of those Spec. Olympians teaching WI schoolkids than the rats and pigs who blocked them out.Lincolntfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04620264736967842427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-8911730797016349222011-06-09T08:08:21.046-05:002011-06-09T08:08:21.046-05:00andinista said...
Yeah, just keep ignoring th...<i>andinista said...<br /><br /> Yeah, just keep ignoring the 20th Century and its human abattoirs of people not good enough for the Progressive elite, including the Special Olympians. </i><br /><br />This needs repeating, because andinista has (very gently) reminded me that the Special Olympians would be getting very different attention in the leftist "utopias" of the 20th century. The protesters are people who promote those "utopias."<br /><br /><b>It's who they are. It's what they do.</b>Delaynahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07443991439305465944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1527678131207435932011-06-09T07:23:04.403-05:002011-06-09T07:23:04.403-05:00In Wisconsin they used to dynamite the capitalists...In Wisconsin they used to dynamite the capitalists because they had no other way, no power to use, to attempt to change society. The goal was simply to do violent stuff that might ignite a larger uprising.<br /><br />Innocents hurt? Sorry, gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.<br /><br />With dynamite no longer permissibly fashionable, the current lot of righteous radicals and anarchists must resort merely to inducing outrage. <br /><br />For now, anyway. <br /><br />After all, we've got evil incarnate James Carville now making the talk show biz bubble with suggestions that civil unrest may be a consequence of economic stress.gerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07865564381083435425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12119286608052411932011-06-09T07:16:37.023-05:002011-06-09T07:16:37.023-05:00Garage ... you just didn't tell the whole stor...Garage ... you just didn't tell the whole story:<br /><br /><i>Only one party wants to <b>launder ALL resources and control through their bureaucratic allies in our government</b> for programs/services that would help a Trig Palin, <b>even if it means fewer resources make it to Trig because they are wasted on "administration" that keeps bureaucrats (and their union dues) in place ... even if it means attaching strings that end up making Trig dependent upon the whims of that party.</b></i><br /><br />Edited for accuracy.<br /><br />It's not that we don't want to help, Regressives ... it's your insistence that we help YOUR way, enforced by taking some of the money we would be using to help OUR way ... because to get it right for EACH and EVERY person in need, our leaders and bureaucrats have to possess a level of omniscience that they simply do not possess.<br /><br />You defend the indefensible, in your attempts to jam your profit-phobic, we-are-better-than-you morality down all our throats by the force of law, with a fundamentalist zeal that makes Baptist preachers look like libertines at Mardi Gras.<br /><br />And you strain at every gnat that you think justifies your views ... while swallowing the camels of dysfunction that are bred by those views, with 'nary a catch in your throat.Ritchie The Riveterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04142451531127717113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11742754506945039312011-06-09T07:15:32.697-05:002011-06-09T07:15:32.697-05:00The woman in black at the end of the clip looks ve...The woman in black at the end of the clip looks very much like the professional agitator from the desecration of the Veteran's memorial back in March. Harriet Blair Rowan. Let me know if I am wrong.Issob Moroccohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05392541167916392868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91121109046935948502011-06-09T06:58:11.494-05:002011-06-09T06:58:11.494-05:00It's not that Walker is a Republican, it's...<i>It's not that Walker is a Republican, it's that Mayors and Governors and Presidents have "photo-ops" involving various groups all of the time, and if you're going to condemn Walker you MUST condemn all of them.</i><br /><br />Exactly Synova and the thing is, the Governor/other politicians get <b>invited</b> to these things all the time because it is considered an honor to the group for them to attend. They are not traditional photo-ops to me in the sense that they are more for the participants than for the politician. Word to everything you said earlier about the ceremonial fundings of these offices.Shannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15709594638793030086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28272371125786638762011-06-09T06:48:02.046-05:002011-06-09T06:48:02.046-05:00Just to pull multiple threads together:
See AL, G...Just to pull multiple threads together:<br /><br />See AL, Garage, and PB&J's comments on this thread for evidence leftists develop a willingness to make an ass of themselves. They're reduced to claiming innocuous everyday governmental functions like recognizing the Special Olympians are somehow nefarious. Or that interposing themselves in a recognition ceremony isn't disruptive. <br /><br />It's ridiculous. Normal people are embarassed to write things this stupid. But leftists are willing to write or say anything if it supports the cause.testhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09478829894294731159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18148683922666257212011-06-09T06:24:17.754-05:002011-06-09T06:24:17.754-05:00Well, at least we'll never have to see those h...Well, at least we'll never have to see those hypocritical "Wisconsin Teachers: Putting Children First" picket signs ever again. <br /><br />I feel guilty, but the first thought that video brought to mind was <a href="http://humor.commongate.com/post/arguing_on_the_internet_is_like_running_in_the_special_olympics_even_if_you_win_you_re_still_retarded/photos/38441" rel="nofollow">this old graphic.</a>Johanna Lapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11683581129390692385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38974446323880117972011-06-09T06:10:08.520-05:002011-06-09T06:10:08.520-05:00Aww. Poor Scott Wanker. Why doesn't anybody l...Aww. Poor Scott Wanker. Why doesn't anybody like him? Is it because he's a total dick?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23122920084834773222011-06-09T02:45:30.334-05:002011-06-09T02:45:30.334-05:00"Around here the so-called honorable response..."<i>Around here the so-called honorable response is...</i>"to avoid utter and blatant hypocrisy.<br /><br />I don't know how you can type what you type? It's not that Walker is a Republican, it's that Mayors and Governors and Presidents have "photo-ops" involving various groups all of the time, and if you're going to condemn Walker you MUST condemn all of them. Fat freaking chance of that happening. Can you at least PRETEND not to be so hypocritical? Would a smaller podium have done for you? Or if half the media that showed up was made to leave?<br /><br />In bizarro liberal land Sarah Palin compels reporters to race unsafely after her down the freeway and Walker compels the media to show up at his event honoring some kids. What power! Walker undoubtedly forced the zombies to come as well, and forced them to be public jerks. The Omnipotence!<br /><br />And the twisting goes on and on. And you'll never ever admit that half the reporters there were probably there for the zombies... but when we're gonna talk about rabid attention getting the zombies are... invisible... and Walker is a ghoul.<br /><br />But we'll just keep this in mind for the next time Obama has kids to the White House and zombies fail to show up.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.com