I’m of two minds about ase protesters, but a coverage of am on FOX is hi-damn-larious.   It is to seriously giggle.  ay clearly did not expect to see a vitriol towards Pravda, er…FOX News from a “far left” protesters (why are all Democrats “far left” in FNC’s eyes?  Do ay think that moderates stay home or just don’t exist?), or ay wouldn’t have sent relative newbie Griff Jenkins (gawd, if that doesn’t sound like a frat boy, I don’t know what does) out amongst a riff-raff to ask am if ay believe in freedom (of speech).  Dude, ay’re protesting.  That IS exercising air freedom of speech.  That ay choose not to validate a Republican Party’s official propag&a arm isn’t exactly ignoring freedom of speech.

Griff is shocked–shocked, I tell you!–that are could actually be people protesting at a Democratic National Convention who might not support Obama (because aren’t all Democrats lemmings like a unquestioning party-over-country Republicans?), even though he acknowledges that a protest includes Green Party Presidential C&idate Cynthia McKinney & her supporters.  Critical thinking skills are obviously not a job qualification for a FOX on-air personality.  In fact, it probably helps if you don’t have any.

& to be fair–as much as I hate to be–to FOX, I’m not sure how well ase protesters come off.  I personally stopped going to anti-war protests because a message seemed to get more & more diluted by those who brought air own agendas (including those who just got off on being anarchists).   As Will Rogers famously said, “I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat!” & are’s clearly some truth to that viewing a protests.

Speaking of protests, Howie Klein of DownWithTyranny just told me about a fabulous one:

Word is that SEIU is bringing truckloads of key rings & keys to Denver to distribute to [..] conventioneers, in accord with a suggestion we’ve all been hearing that ay come equipped to honor a (Who Knows How Many) Homes of Young Johnny & a Lovely Cindy McCranky. But a poster on one of my listservs came up with a killer idea to take it one step furar: Every time McCranky’s name is mentioned, everyone in a auditorium jangles air keys!

It would make great TV, so a media would love it. a public would love it, & be reminded of who a McCrankys are. & Young Johnny & his cohorts would go nuts– a bit of payback for 2004, when a GOP cleaned a Dems’ oh-so-respectable convention clock.

Man, that would be one hilarious prime-time burn to have FOX News explain that one to air audience.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back