Live from DNC: Zombie at a Giant Puppet Parade!
Ever wanted to see left-wing talk show hosts and Ralph Nader's running mate in puppet form? This is your big chance. Latest: I Went to Invesco and All I Got Was This Lousy Report
Crossposted at Little Green Footballs
August 28, 10:00 pm PST
…and boy, do I regret it.
He got a lot of fist bumps from the passing crowd — but no tickets. Would you give up your ticket to the Second Coming?
I tried to find the beginning of the line — a line which seemed to have no beginning or end. I made the mistake at first of trying to go toward the entrance. Foolish me. Notice how the line seems to emerge from the stadium. I was told this was actually the middle of the line. So I tried my best to work my way backwards.
Back, back I went, for a quarter mile, a half a mile…and even after all that it kept winding and looping back upon itself over and over.
In each parking area, the line zigzagged in labyrinthine meanders, intended to handle to most amount of people in the space available.
It just kept going, and going…
…and going and going. The term “Kafka-esque” is overused, but boy, was it ever appropriate here.
Finally, I found myself back out on the city streets on the other side of the stadium, where it stretched for block after block…and here, I finally found the end of the line. A policemen keeping watch told me that the expected wait time at that point was over two and a half hours.
I heard a slight flurry of activity in the distance and went to investigate. Turns out a rumor was flying that they had opened an additional entrance on a lesser-used side of Invesco Field. People were pointing, but hesitated — should they give up their precious place in line on the basis of a rumor?
But when a very official-looking man announced that it was indeed true, everyone within earshot scrambled overland toward the new entrance at top speed, as if someone had reported finding gold nuggets in a nearby river.
Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you: parking spaces in prime spots near the stadium were going for $80 apiece.
It was not a fluke. There were several signs like this, and some for $60 a little further out.
Were there protesters? Yes — a tiny few. Some communists tried to convert stalwart Democrats in one portion of the line, with little success.
World Can’t Wait joined in, acting like cult members as usual.
As I reported earlier, I saw the members of the crazy Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps church walking by across the street at one point, but I was unable to follow them at that moment, and when I searched for them frantically later, I could find neither hide nor hair of them. Strange.
These two people were the only independent protesters I saw.
This security guard gave me a free bottle of water, and then murmured, “Are you for McCain?” I gave a noncommittal “possibly” sort of shrug, but that was enough to inspire him to open his vest.
Around the other back side of the stadium, I discovered what I think must have been the “VIP entrance” where all the politicos arrived.
As I was leaving to come file this report, my bus passed several heavily guarded convoys like this one headed back up toward that secret entrance: the bus barely visible on the left of the photo appeared to be filled with congressmen or some other high-status guests.
And that’s what the view was like outside Invesco Field on the night of Obama’s acceptance speech.
August 28, 08:00 pm PST
Here are some quick photos from outside Invesco Field on Thursday evening. I’ll be adding to this post minute-by-minute with more images and captions. Keep refreshing for updates!
No single photo can convey the impossibly long extent of the line. According to police I spoke to, it was nearly two miles long at one point. It zigzagged crazily back and forth from one end of Invesco’s vast series of parking lots to the other — and then continued out onto the city streets. This is just 1% of the line; imagine this same scene extending to the horizon.
August 28, 04:35 pm PST
Live-blogging from Invesco Field. Walked all the way here with 1000 potheads on the marijuana march. The scene out here is crazy; endless lines six abreast stretching for miles from every stadium entrance. Obama frenzy is palpable in the air.
Oooh — the Fred Phelps crazies just went by, carrying “God hates fags” signs. There they go.
Parking spaces are $80 each near the stadium. I saw several seniors close to fainting in the heat …
MSM members are all around in this A&W place across from Invesco, buying sodas to keep from passing out, and calling in their stories. No way I’m getting in to see The Sermon on the 50-yard line — it’s booked solid. The MSM guy next to me just told his editor that traffic is backed up five miles around the stadium.
Aug. 28, 07:56 am PST
On Tuesday, a group called The Backbone Campaign sponsored a parade they call “Procession to the Future,” but which is better known in journalistic circles as Giant Puppets!
Here’s a secret about parades: the best scenes are usually in the staging area, not the parade itself.
One of several symbolic figures: individual real women throughout history are used to personify various positive attributes. And who, in the long history of humankind, was chosen to exemplify Truth? Why, it’s left-wing talk show host Amy Goodman!
They were having quite a struggle inflating the Statue of Liberty.
She was never quite able to achieve full erection.
You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
This sad, overheated polar bear is here to remind us about global warming.
Amy Goodman was not the only symbolic figure. Justice, for example, is represented by Rosa Parks dressed up in what looks like a Harriet Tubman costume.
Ralph Nader’s 2000 running mate Winona LaDuke is Respect.
Sadako Sasaki, the Hiroshima vitim who folded a thousand origami cranes, is Peace — while that irrepressible Amy Goodman pulls a prank on a Code Pink member.
Because commercial radio stations say things we don’t like!
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34 Comments
1. Chuck Pelto:TO: Zombie
RE: Alex Jones vs. the Giant Squash-Head Claw Hands
I can hear him screaming now, “Don’t TOUCH me!”
And he’d be right, too.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
Aug 28, 2008 - 8:59 am 2. Right Wing Nation » Giant Puppet Heads From Denver!:[Our two weapons are ugliness and fear.
No! Our three weapons are ugliness, fear and claw hands.
Wait! Our four weapons are..... -- It's a Monty Python Moment in Denver]
[...] has some great photos of the Giant Puppet Parade in [...]
Aug 28, 2008 - 9:09 am 3. Michelle Malkin » Hot Air TV at the DNC: Our man in orange:[...] circus coverage from Zombie: Among the puppets. Posted in: Gitmo, Moonbats Send to a Friend Printer Friendly comments [...]
Aug 28, 2008 - 9:23 am 4. negentropy:What? No furries?
Aug 28, 2008 - 9:47 am 5. Anonymous Patriot:Hey, did you notice that most of these “progressive” people are kinda fat? Maybe there a tie between obesity and stupidity…
“Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Aug 28, 2008 - 10:09 am 6. Chuck Pelto:~ Dean Wormer, Faber College
TO: negentropy
RE: Furies
They’re the ones carrying the figures.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
Aug 28, 2008 - 10:11 am 7. Adirondack Patriot:[Hell hath no fury...they're all in Denver. -- The Tempest (paraphrased)]
So the point of this march is that we need bullet trains for Mother Vegetable so she can get an abortion on demand with her universal health care card while listening to Amy Goodman on public radio about war crimes by the por-nuclear arms Bush Administration?
Sounds like a concise, well-thought out agenda. No wonder these guys aren’t in charge.
P.S. — It’s only a matter of time before the PC Left criminalizes the term “bullet train” (too war like) and they start referring to Amy Goodperson.
Aug 28, 2008 - 10:28 am 8. Self-hating boomer:They dress up like vegetables, and then wonder why people call them fruits and nuts…
Aug 28, 2008 - 10:28 am 9. WT:Shouldn’t it be Amy Goodmyn?
FYI–that’s the preamble to the Constitution, not the Declaration of Independence.
Aug 28, 2008 - 10:43 am 10. Bmoon:Damn! That all sure changed my awareness! I think I’m having a flashback to ‘76 when I was tripping on shrooms while listening to “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
Aug 28, 2008 - 10:53 am 11. Fred Beloit:Say, what happened to Rigoberta Manchu. She could have represented “Narrative”, as in: the propaganda narrative matters more than what actually happened, which should basically be ignored.
Aug 28, 2008 - 10:57 am 12. Bugs:Thank you, puppet people! My consciousness has been raised and I have experienced total political awareness. You were right, I was wrong. All I needed was a giant vegetable woman to show me the error of my ways. Thank you…
Aug 28, 2008 - 11:19 am 13. Evil Pundit:The sexism of the symbols is interesting. All the “good” qualities are represented by women, and all the “evil” people are men (with the exception of Condi Rice).
Aug 28, 2008 - 11:34 am 14. Karl Rove:The unknown giant head is me.
Aug 28, 2008 - 11:52 am 15. jay:Do left-wing radio hosts have actual left-wing radio shows outside of NY and LA?
Does “Procession to the Future” mean we’ll be lead by puppets filled with hat air and people with big heads? Never mind the future is now.
Aug 28, 2008 - 12:08 pm 16. Rob de Bob:Just something I noticed, but what is labeled here as the Declaration of Independence is actually the Preamble to the US Constitution.
Aug 28, 2008 - 12:28 pm 17. Achillea:Lady Liberty isn’t droopy, that’s a Compassionate Head Tilt(tm).
Aug 28, 2008 - 12:49 pm 18. jay:“puppets filled with hat air and people with big heads?”
hot air - oops
The guy with the “abortion on demand t-shirt” makes a strong case in favor of abortion:)
Aug 28, 2008 - 12:50 pm 19. Tantor:Dammit to hell! If we’ve lost the Giant Puppets, we’ve lost the whole game! Who can oppose the authority of the Giant Puppets? Who? If the Giant Puppets say it, then it is irrefutable. Who dares thwart the will of the Puppets? Not me, brother. I surrender. Game over. The puppets win.
Unless we let loose the Giant Robots.
Aug 28, 2008 - 1:38 pm 20. Pajamas TV UPDATED | The Anchoress:[...] And this is certainly fun! [...]
Aug 28, 2008 - 2:13 pm 21. schnargley:Zombie….are they going to take their clothes off and show infalatble scrotums, like in SF?
Now THAT will show ‘em!
Aug 28, 2008 - 2:28 pm 22. Dawn:Senor Coffee Cup scared the crap out of me…because I couldn’t figure out why they made a Barack Obama puppet and then dressed it up like a giant scarecrow. I don’t think the theme was supposed to be “If I only had a brain…”
Aug 28, 2008 - 2:57 pm 23. V. Y.:So, that giant piece of Americana…Not the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration starts out like this…”When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
That Piece of Americana…The Preamble to the Constitution. “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Aug 28, 2008 - 3:00 pm 24. Makhno:As much as I dislike Zombie’s right-wing, reactionary politics, I have to admit that I got more than a few chuckles out of these pictures and captions. I love Amy Goodman, but making a puppet depicting her? Hilarious.
Go anarchists, beat state!
Love puppets too!
Black bloc veteran
Aug 28, 2008 - 3:50 pm 25. Zhombre:For the guy wearing a T-shirt that says “Abortion on demand without apologies”: I demand his abortion, right now, without apologies!
Aug 28, 2008 - 4:08 pm 26. Javelin:Zhombre,
Aug 28, 2008 - 4:31 pm 27. Paul:yuo have a sterling prolife outlook!
Your confusion between the Declaration of Independence and the preamble of the Constitution underscores one incontrovertible fact: you somehow made it out of high school without much of an understanding of what has made this country great, which has enabled you to support the Republicans, the most threatening group of failures to blight our country in living memory.
Aug 28, 2008 - 5:43 pm 28. j-mo:I bet you the bald fellow is philosopher Ken Wilber.
Aug 28, 2008 - 5:44 pm 29. Mary in LA:ZHombre, at least wait until the dude gives birth. Just check out that belly — he’s obviously been punished with a baby, and he’s not happy about it.
Aug 28, 2008 - 5:46 pm 30. still waiting:this is quite a laughable ensemble, yet, in all their collective misanthropy they are mere poseurs who shall never inspire so vast a volume of repulsion and ridicule with the befuddled nonchalance of ann coulter
Aug 28, 2008 - 9:25 pm 31. richard:wait a minute….where are the “Che’s”? Zombie, why are there no photos of “Che”? Is this another neo-con conspiracy?! I want my Che’s” !!!!
Aug 28, 2008 - 10:27 pm 32. Dodgeblogium » Drolling idiots in Denver…:[...] Now with extra puppets. [...]
Aug 29, 2008 - 4:35 am 33. Kirly:Makhno said “As much as I dislike Zombie’s right-wing, reactionary politics”
right wing? you’ve got to be kidding! she called for a purge of right wingers from the republican party on another blog.
Aug 31, 2008 - 1:26 pm 34. K:So, are Murdoch and Turner allowed to have any scrutiny whatsoever, and if so, what percentage of their time are they NOT the left and right hands of the American media stranglehold?
Sep 5, 2008 - 8:20 am