Good news: Democratic convention protests to feature free love
posted at 9:32 am on April 10, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Via Slapstick Politics, here’s the reason Hillary needs to stay in the race — to rile these freaks and force-feed the media enough of a “party in turmoil!” narrative that they’ll be forced to cover them. Which is ironic, since they have something important in common with her. Both spend plenty of time whining about the unfairness of rules:
Recreate 68 secured two days’ permits for Civic Center Park – which can accommodate 25,000 people – but did not land one for Aug. 24, the eve of the convention’s opening.
That day’s permit, ironically – and to the outrage of protesters – was awarded through the blind-draw system to the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee, for a kick-off party…
“Regardless of the city’s claims, we’re going to be having free housing here in the park,” said Spagnuolo. “We are going to be having free housing here in the park. We will stay past the curfew, we will enjoy each other’s company.”
Note the reference in the clip to having their own security too, which takes on all kinds of nuance in light of the violent rhetoric some of their more excitable comrades are getting off on. Exit question: Five-point bump after the convention — for Maverick? Click the image to watch.
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Wow, this guy looks about as scary as a Popsicle. And twice as worthless.
Have a few more bong hits dude and you can sleep right through the whole convention. You’ll be the luckiest guy there.
NoDonkey on April 10, 2008 at 9:36 AM
What’s love got to do with it?
Sex is not love.
jgapinoy on April 10, 2008 at 9:37 AM
let’s just hope this dosen’t turn into another hippie jam fest. Eric Cartman is only a fictional character.
RMC1618 on April 10, 2008 at 9:40 AM
It’s the only love he’s going to be able to afford.
profitsbeard on April 10, 2008 at 9:41 AM
I gotta admit, the whole idea of needing a Permit to Protest is pretty strange.
I understand how its happened, with the need for security, and amount of protests, and protestors now… but intellectualy it just seems anti Free Speech.
Kinda like the idea of “Free Speech Zones”… Gee… I thought America ITSELF was a Free Speech Zone.
Romeo13 on April 10, 2008 at 9:42 AM
Human nature is timeless. Notice it’s the guy proposing the free “love?” Activism must be a great way to meet chicks.
obladioblada on April 10, 2008 at 9:42 AM
Hope this guy brings his banjo..
Wade on April 10, 2008 at 9:44 AM
Good luck Denver, you’re so lucky to have all of these warmed over hippies . . . and the Democrats too. Well, at least your employment rate will skyrocket when you hire hundreds of sanitation workers to clean the crud out of your park after the free-lovers stumble out.
rplat on April 10, 2008 at 9:47 AM
This is priceless, the way left is protesting… THE LEFT!!! If these idiots would lay off the drugs for half a day, they might realize they’re protesting themselves.
I predict, not many people will show up, they will create a “tent city” , the cops will sit around and watch. Then when it’s all over, they will leave behind tons of trash, but OMG don’t criticize them, they care so much about the environment! Ok, I’m going to go puke now.
4shoes on April 10, 2008 at 9:48 AM
“Hope this guy brings his banjo.”
“I gave my love a cherry, that had no stone.”
(Vision of Bluto Blutarsky seizing banjo and smashing against tree.)
“Sorry.”
NoDonkey on April 10, 2008 at 9:49 AM
That dude looks like an overgrown squirrel. The DLC is supposed to be afraid of varmints?
Badger in KC on April 10, 2008 at 9:49 AM
Free love = drugs, drugs, drugs.
This convention is going to be so much better to watch than the Olympics.
The chickens are coming home to roost, Denver!!!!!!
Hening on April 10, 2008 at 9:49 AM
Yeah.
Maybe.
It’s really too bad your girl turned out to be so completely hapless, AP. When’s the last time she set out to unholster a campaining pistol and left her feet unshot?
Sad.
Typhoon on April 10, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Wonder if Bubba Billy will be participating?
pilamaye on April 10, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Oh, this is so Chicago 1968!
Really. Warmed over hippies, free love, idiots protesting the “system”……….. Like groovy man!
In the meantime, the GOP continues its march to oblivion by continuing to prop up an idiot like John McCain. The Republican Convention will be all about continuing the lie that McCain is a conservative “just like the constituency.” It will be a very miserable affair since everybody knows that McCain is a rat bastard political traitor who was ready to bolt from the party in 2004. Thank God the Democrats are willing to put on a freak show to entertain while the GOP goes down in flames!
highhopes on April 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Geez that hippie is hawt!!!
NOT!
terryannonline on April 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Free City is going to cost the Dems big time.
Rove must be behind this. I mean, come on, between the rants of Rev. Wright and this nude hippy reunion at the convention aren’t all of our dreams coming true? Good idea Dems, take us back in time to the apex of racism, rioting and discontent in America.
You know my friends, it is beginning to feel like the Vietnam Era again. It’s where Democrats had their greatest hour of whining and complaining, and they just can’t bring themselves to letting go.
Party of Change?
Dude.
fogw on April 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Trust me. If this clown gets any “love” at this shindig, he’ll be paying for it!
CurtZHP on April 10, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Pass the popcorn, this is going to be good.
chewydog on April 10, 2008 at 9:57 AM
The only difference in ’60s there was actually stuff to fired up. My generation is getting fired up about global warming and such when we actually have a serious issue to worry about like TERRORISM.
terryannonline on April 10, 2008 at 10:01 AM
I think a tasteful film documentary of two overweight, gray haired hippie types making hot monkey love under the Democratic Convention logo would be a winner on YouTube.
a capella on April 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM
I am sooo getting a bunch of food and maybe throwing a “watch the hippies get tazered” party during the convention. Maybe a bbq, some buffalo wings and a porketta, Mmm Mmm good times. Oh yeah, and beer, lots of beer.
Geronimo on April 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM
What a misogynist!!! He better stay away from those Hillary supporters.
terryannonline on April 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Gross!
terryannonline on April 10, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Best news of the day. I hope the MSM sets up cameras.
cat-scratch on April 10, 2008 at 10:17 AM
It’s not free love, daddy’s actually paying for it.
George Antrobes on April 10, 2008 at 10:20 AM
“It’s not free love, daddy’s actually paying for it.”
So this is Spitzer’s kid?
NoDonkey on April 10, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Someboy call PETA, that young man has a bird’s nest on his head.
p40tiger on April 10, 2008 at 10:26 AM
But… but…
the Dems no longer beleive in “Free Love”… its bought and paid for just like their political positions!
Romeo13 on April 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Did you really have to conjure up that image? You’re a very sick person. It’s gonna take a lot of scotch to get that out of my head.
Oldnuke on April 10, 2008 at 10:30 AM
New tourism slogan for Denver:
“Come to Denver this summer and punch a hippie”
rbj on April 10, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Compare and contrast this…person…to a guy like Michael Mansoor.
Somehow the idea of giving ANYTHING to his country, much less risking life and limb for comrades would ever enter this guy’s head.
Bishop on April 10, 2008 at 10:48 AM
And lib-wads are worried about puke on the streets in the Twin Cities?!!
whitetop on April 10, 2008 at 10:49 AM
edit: “Somehow I don’t think the idea”
Damn my clumsy thought/typing process.
Bishop on April 10, 2008 at 10:50 AM
We should keep in mind that most people are this protest will be decent sincere people. However, the majority of the protesters have ideologically divested themselves of any mechanism to keep in check the a**hole extermists–the ones who will make the news and hurt the Democrats. Having seen what happens at such events is why I’m not just suspicious of anarchy, but even libertarianism. Sometimes, some people need to be told what to do.
thuja on April 10, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Wait, what exactly are they “protesting”.
Each other? Whether one or the other of two terrible candidates with the same lunatic, carbon copy views, gets the nomination?
Pointless exercise in complete futility. The only “decent and sincere” people at these protests will be the policemen who are unfortunate enough to have to work this idiotic event.
NoDonkey on April 10, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Actually it is a good thing that Most areas have to have Permits to Protest. The nasty WBC has to do the same thing, even if they want to protest a funeral.
And the towns and city’s let them. How sad is that.
upinak on April 10, 2008 at 11:12 AM
They aren’t recreating ‘68. They’re recreating Altamonte.
Nosferightu on April 10, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Altamont?
Hell’s Angels paid in beer, beating the stuffing out of hippies?
We can only hope.
NoDonkey on April 10, 2008 at 11:22 AM
Yep, cleaning up all the Starbucks cups. For them to be the ‘earth party,’ they sure do leave it filthy.
Dubn8tr on April 10, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Free Love? I’m certain there will be.
But what about free soap and free water??? I’m thinking… probably not.
On the positive side… at least the Hillary camp can stop worrying about what they’ll do with Bill while they’re tearing apart the Party of Hope and Change. He’ll be right at home in the park… sans underwear.
Gartrip on April 10, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Free Love – with one of the Code Pink gals? I’ll have to pass.
TooTall on April 10, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Best EVAH. NAAAHHH. 68 in Chicago, now that was a convention for the books. Could this be de ja vu all over again???
pueblo1032 on April 10, 2008 at 11:54 AM
I don’t have audio. Is “Tent State” a double entendre? A tent city in the park and a randy free love fest. That’s kinda funny, I guess. Good on the subversive Fox News graphics guy.
boko fittleworth on April 10, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Will the demofascist party be required to pay for the damage these idiots will do to the park or will the taxpayers of Colorado?
peacenprosperity on April 10, 2008 at 1:00 PM
gotta love that screencap!
Drunk Report on April 10, 2008 at 1:06 PM
Why is it that the ugly, flabby, stoned and unwashed are the only ones who run around naked and have “free” love? After I stop throwing up at the thought, I will go ahead and poke my eyes out!
HawaiiLwyr on April 10, 2008 at 1:17 PM
I can’t wait. 1968 Chicago cops – this is your call to come out of retirement. Time to get to the batting cages to practice your swing. And don’t forget the old blue helmets! These little punks are so young that they’ll mistake you for the UN and run into your waiting arms. This could be FUN!
dm60462 on April 10, 2008 at 1:49 PM
I’ve seen Democrat females before, no thanks.
Buford on April 10, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Tent State? You gotta be kidding me.
mojo on April 10, 2008 at 2:38 PM
Do free herpes, free AIDs and free clamydia come with it?
RMCS_USN on April 10, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Not only is it not anti-free speech – its exactly the opposite. Obtaining a permit protects THEM. It guarantees them, prior to the event, the right to utilize (and usually monopolize) some public space. It protects their rights, doesn’t infringe upon them.
It’s no different than going to the local Parks department to get a permit to utilize a cabana and some picnic tables and a grill for the office picnic. It’s public space so you’re free to use it – but getting the permit ahead of time guarantees you that space. That way the guys from Initech and Initrode can’t crash your party. Same thing for the hippies.
Professor Blather on April 10, 2008 at 3:43 PM
Rocky Mountain High!
RobCon on April 10, 2008 at 3:43 PM
I better add to the above: all of that assumes permits are granted fairly and uniformly. It is in the denial of permits that free speech can be abridged.
Professor Blather on April 10, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Because, look at them; Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. Desperation breeds strange, (and nasty, walking petri dish,) bedfellows.
foxforce91 on April 10, 2008 at 3:48 PM
Hey, isn’t that the guy from the singing credit-protection commercials?
mojo on April 10, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Who needs the MSM? Colorado bloggers will be there.
Thanks!
elpresidente on April 10, 2008 at 4:56 PM
I hate hippie wanna-bes more than actual hippies. Well, maybe I have to think about that one.
Dork B. on April 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Is there any way we could arrange a Fire Ant infestation for that park?
trigon on April 10, 2008 at 10:07 PM
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