Someone asked for photographic evidence of all the emptiness happening at this wiener of a convention, so here you are. The upper and club level seats in this side of the arena — each of which has a very clear view of the stage — are not even half-full. For some perspective: we took this photo around 8 p.m. local time. If we had shown up at 8 p.m. local time looking for a seat at the Democratic convention, there would have been no seats or oxygen remaining anywhere for three hours already. It would have been an insult to God to show up at 8 p.m.! Denver was so awful like that, the people and the what not.
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I’m heading over to the Mug-Show. All drinks are on me.
Then we’ll go tip a moose.
Mug-Shot.
I correct myself with what little dignity and sobriety i have left
I’m watching it on MSNBC. Poor Olbermann, doing his best not to laugh every time one of these people gets on the mike to say how “energized” everyone is.
I can feel the, uh, enthusiasm of the white people in the photo.
No wonder they brought in baby Daddy Levi. They needed seat fillers.
Of course nobody is showing up live; the Republican base can’t afford gas and doesn’t get paid vacations.
I’m pretty sure this is a photo of a Royals game.
be very careful leaving the building. you might get gassed. some nasty shit going on outside. police using “chemical agents”. unprovoked, according to cnn.
So everyone’s at the Paultard convention?
God bless you! And thanks for the evidence!
OMFG, this “Roger that” bullshit needs to stop. Not that I don’t think that Navy Seals are the shit, BUT that was so poorly put-together. I guess the Republicans still have the corner on overwhelming militarism.
Holy crap. CNN.com’s keeping the shot inside the mezzanine so it looks full.
[re=80003]Scarab[/re]: Yeah, I saw Fog Hat at a local club here in Austin awhile back. I think there were more people there & they were having a crapload of more fun.
They are leaving those seats empty in case any “negros” decide to attend.
i’m gonna stay till the STONEY END.
I’m telling you, it’s St Paul. It sucks the fun out of everything. Of course, when you start with an event like the RNC that features a trailer trash VP pick with retarded speakers you get a rare Double Fun Suck.
Is China competing? The delegates are chanting “USA”.
And a military guy named Swindle is talking. Nuff said.
Holy crap… the Repube on stage is actually named Swindle… truth in advertising at last?
Empty seats? Give them a break, Jim. They’re at home praying, thanking god for giving republicans the secret to family values.
[re=80006]Cape Clod[/re]:
I saw a shot on the local news of the Paultard convention and it did look full.
God, those empty seats look like something you’d see at indoor football league game. What a fucking convention.
Who was the young trollop that just made out with HW?
[re=80011]Rush[/re]: Both the token Repub negros are there already I think
[re=80000]Guppy06[/re]: snap!
[re=80009]SayItWithWookies[/re]: When is someone besides Wonkette going to call bs?
omg, the Stepford 1st lady…
[re=80010]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: fog hat. was bachman turner overdrive the warm up act? oh, here comes crazy eyes laura.
Yay, Laura! The only current occupant of the White House that Republicans can stand to look at.
I’ve got a bottle of Seagrams, a 40 and MSNBC. Lets do this.
Well, duh! They arrested everyone, everywhere that wanted to attend! Even Amy Goodman!
Since when has Laura been Asian?
[re=80022]grendel[/re]:
yeah, I forgot, Lieberman and Hadassah
The first female vice president may be a Republican woman, but not Sarah Palin.
The Bushes are leaving so they don’t have to hear that idiot son of theirs speak.
Oh, and I noticed that Laura made it to St. Paul.
[re=80010]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: I saw Fog Hat at a local club here in Austin
I’m kinda hoping Great White plays this event.
So the MSM is going to back to trying to make this look like a horse race, to keep up viewership. You could probably honestly say, “The excitement is building.” If I were the RNC, I would announce that Diet Mountain Dew and Pepsi Max are on the house.
Oh, Laura. Don’t fucking patronize women. Don’t even pretend that women in the GOP are any less of a disaster than the men.
Yes, yes, that’s all well and good, but how are the Gay-hatin’ Old People going to pin this on the lib’ruls?
Elaine Chao and Condi — talk about setting women’s equality back fifty years.
[re=80035]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Dub is sucking on a Miller and eating pretzels.
Holy shit she tripped up when she was plugging her own fucking husband! HA!!
Oh now she will give us “facts.” a little “straight talk” if you know what I mean.
Facts? Repubs are going to talk about facts?
[re=80032]DoctorCulturae[/re]: it’s the new “string lift” face lift. it’s strings with fish hook type thingy’s and they tie it all up. you’re okay until something snaps.
Cheering for Alito and Roberts? I wish a gaping maw from hell would suck down St. Paul and everyone in it…
Dark people can read now? Oh good now she’s talking about AIDS.
Oh, sweet holy Jesus, I can’t wait for tomorrow’s Daily Show.
[re=80042]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Oh, Laura. That’s right. Set up some straw men that you can burn down (“The Democrats say that black children cain’t read! Well, some black children can read better than they used to!”).
Oh, yes. Faith. Bring up faith. And AIDS. The ONE thing that Bush has done better than everything else he’s done, and yet still not done enough on.
DO NOT COOPT the CHANGE, you stupid, stupid honky idiot woman.
it’s hard to tell the secret service from the log cabin republicans.
National Enquirer has just put up the first of it’s Cootergate coverage. Apparently Caribou Barbie was going to make the kids get married right after the convention but Bristol said no. Enquirer knew Levi’s identity before things broke Monday morning.
OH SHIT, L. BUSH TOTALLY PLAGIARIZED THE “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN” OBAMA MEME! WHY WON’T THE MSM REPORT THIS???!?
Jim see if you can figure out who keeps yelling “yeeeaaaaahhhhhhh” like Sloth from The Goonies
[re=80046]echoman2000[/re]: I looked up and thought Madam Mao was talking.
Thanks for keeping us safe by taking away our rights… yay
50,000,000 people are now living in, um, Freedom!
…as I said before they should have outsourced the audience to China! Not only would every seat be full they would also all applaud on cue!
“AMERICA HONORS YOUR SERVICE and we give you our thanks. But you gonna be there for a loooonnnnggg time more, bitches.”
Never fear, just heard that Todd Palin was in Wasilla yesterday and he was on a chartered jet with Secret Service and they are bringing back Bristol babydaddy on the chartered jet. I am glad to see McCain can spend you fundraisers and donaters $$ real good….
[re=80035]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Babs is voting for Barry. I’m tellin’ ya that lei on her arm was a big signal.
Smilin’ Chimpy on to lie to us some more
pbs just showed a wide shot and it looks like it’s barely 1/3 full!
O my god, Laura just did a little patented “W chuckle” at her own laugh line. “[helping the black Afercan AIDS homos] is change you can really believe in. Heh.”
Come to think of it, McCain does that too. Heh.
Oh, is that called “freedom”? I thought that Afghanistan was a “bullet-ridden hellhole”.
BUSH HAS KEPT AMERICANS SAFE, YOU WHORE? NO. Bush was on watch when we sustained our only foreign terrorist attack on US soil.
GO fuck yourself in the ear, Laura. You’re a pathetic slave to a faltering party, and I can’t WAIT to have all kinds of condom-strewn, pot-addled sex to usher in a new era of politics.
i must admit…laura has one eye about three inches higher than the other one. she is pulled way too tight. here’s george coming in from outer space.
That screen is rather citizen cain-ish.
“Remember I’m still the president, bitches! See the seal? See the podium? Yeeehaah!”
…maybe they are reserving those seat for Hillary’s(and now Sarah Palins) 18 million cracks? You know how late women can be; putting on their make-up and all!
OMGs!!! this is soooooooooooo not live! shrub is on tape!!!
Oh, Bush knows what it takes to be president, eh? An IQ of 40?
Did W just say that he’s reviewed the daily intelligence briefings for the past 8 years? Don’t we kind of know he’s had a problem keeping up with those in the past…?
Cheney is knocking down buildings now?
“I know what it takes to be president.”
You know — after eight years, I still don’t believe that.
[re=80057]DoctorCulturae[/re]: In a way, she was.
They made him stay away!
[re=80075]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: At least he can put together a chain of words… sometimes.
Here it is!
POW!
POW!
POW!
FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALLEN!
“The angry left”??? You made us angry by being criminally incompetent, you simp!
“His arms had been broken, but not his honor.” ?? Are you kidding me?? This is ridiculous.
Also, Cindy McCain looks like she took a few too many uppers today…
[re=80018]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Thanks, I’m sure that they’re a lot more motivated too. Still completely bat-shit crazy, but having much more fun. Anybody over there from Wonkette?
Hey! We got a mention! Go Angry Left! And why are we angry? Were we angry, say, 8 years ago?
cindy mccain looks like she’s laying eggs. wet slimy eggs.
Cindy is barely in the room.
“He speaks straight from the heart”… until I broke his spirit by starting rumors about his black love child…
I forgot how much stuffz Bush has done for us in the last eight years!
Does Cindy even know where she is?
Old men who speak of victory
Shed light upon their stolen life
They drive by night and
act as if they’re moved by
unheard music
To step in time and play the part
With velvet voices smooth and cold
Their power games a game no more
And long the chance to use it
And those who dance will spin and turn
And those who wait will wait no more
And those talk will hear the word
And those who sneer will fade and die
And those who laugh will surely fall
And those who know will
always feel their backs
against the thin wall
-Ultravox
Even Dubya’s dad can’t manage more than a respectful golf clap.
“The lessons of September 11th”… like read the damn intelligence briefings?
Should have flown in the Gustav evacuees . . .
[re=80051]Strictly for the Tardcore[/re]: Speaking of which, his guest tonight is Gov Too-Tan hisself, Charlie Crist. Ya think they’ll ask him about the wedding?
9/11 — drink.
Stop attacks before they happen. That means start the attacks before we know they will attack us. I seem to remember using that logic when I was on the playground in 2nd grade.
[re=80097]echoman2000[/re]: Her dealer canceled.
Dubya’s optimistic about his new ranch in Paraguay and never paying taxes again.
4 more years! 4 more years!
Who’s the retard yelling “yuh yuh”?
Students Heart McCain… french fries!
Is that Hadassah next to Cindy?
…and Cindy has helped poor people in New Orleans rebuild their homes. Oops no no no…
[re=80104]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: [I]I forgot how much stuffz Bush has done to us[/I]
Fixed
notice how they’re all sitting like four feet apart so it looks like there’s more people. is cindy going to speak again? look like laura picked out cindy’s outfit tonight. not the glamour puss from last night, poor thing. i bet her pink cast is on Ebay.
I was hoping they would play a video of Laura running over her old boyfriend on that big screen.
Hadassah is looking BAD
Aw, the sorrow of dreams dashed.
the simple and humble words… Whitey tighty’s everywhere!
OMG!
THEY’VE RAISED REAGAN FROM THE DEAD!!!
They’re going to drill in St Paul!!!!?
Government off your backs… and onto your phone lines…
“fat little dutchman”
seriously?
FUCK REGAN…I’M SO OUT OF HERE.
9/11 Drink!
I believe in you
You know the door to my very soul
You’re the light in my deepest darkest hour
You’re my saviour when I fall
And you may not think
I care for you
When you know down inside
That I really do
And its me you need to show
How deep is your love
I really need to learn
cause were living in a world of fools
Breaking us down
When they all should let us be
We belong to you and me
-Bee Gees
Ohh look an unqualified idiot talking about an unqualified idiot.
Was out having a smoke behind work this afternoon when the RON PAUL REVOLUTION banner plane flew right over our building, headed towards downtown St Paul. “Woopdeeshit,” said my coworker.
Woopdeshit, indeed, on it all. Especially all the cop overkill downtown, I mean DAMN.
Where is Geri Thompson? How about a little cleavage?
didn’t W. also appear on a giant screen hovering over the Howie Mandel game show? couldn’t someone do a nice mash-up of these 2 appearances somehow?
[re=80003]Scarab[/re]: YES!!!
well looks like the republicans are really fired up about this election
Will they ship in and pay the homeless to fill in the seats on Wednesday and Thursday?
How much are those empty seats for going on eBay? Say wasn’t Meg Whitman supposed to be the VP? How cool would that be. Well, I think she has a few too many houses, too.
I am enjoying how the talking radio heads on the right keep reminding the country that the left is really really scared of Sarah Palin (and Levi) and so all that chatter out there is proof. It’s not chatter, I wrote my friend radio man John Gibson. It’s laughter. Uncontrolled, rotflmao hilarity.
Say, drop in on my blog and leave a comment under potential VP Sarah Palin’s photo… just to let me know you care!
http://storefrontwindows.blogspot.com/
UK bookmakers say the odds are now 14-1 Palin will drop out. They were somethign like 28 – 1 before the Baby got out other gate.
I understand Stanley Kaplan is giving Palin crash course on the Constitution, Countries and their Capitols, and what she actually did as governor of Alaska.
in case you missed it, here is the “real mcCain of genius”
beer commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6xR-_fvUOY
enjoy!
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