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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
In a nod to Americana, they had a gigantic Declaration of Independence.
Members of the public had been invited to sign it with messages of their own.
Finally the parade began for real. The Backbone Campaign’s logo is a human spine on an American flag, meant to “embolden citizens and elected officials to stand up for progressive values.”
Ah, the chain gang of war criminals: Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, George Bush, and Donald Rumsfeld. Progressive values!
Señor Coffee Cup is a real enigma. Is he supposed to be a migrant farm worker? And is the one defining attribute of farm workers that they carry around giant coffee cups?
Bees! The people carrying them were chanting, “Keep the bees alive! Keep the bees alive!”
Here’s — um…Donna Shalala (???) — promoting nationalized healthcare.
Sometimes it seemed the sign-carriers went out of their way to wear the most inappropriate clothing. Here, for example, is a man with Soviet Union shirt who was part of a group carrying signs that demanded “Universal Human Rights” and “Dismantle Empire.” Excuse me, sir: Are you trying to look like a fool?
And then there was the woman who showed her support for “Separation of Church and State” by wearing a kaffiyeh.
Take a moment to soak in the whole scene.
My favorite puppet without any doubt was the polar bear, because the people inside actually somehow managed to make it walk like a bear.
Amy!
Winona!
Rosa/Harriet!
Sadako!
Watch out — here comes the national bullet train. Coast to coast at high speeds! The most environmental idea ever.
One way to pass the time at the parade was to play “Identify That Giant Head.” This one had me stumped. Edwin Meese?
Awwww: Finally — something cute!
Mother Vegetable was a crowd favorite.
For once, the song is actually true: He really does have the whole world in his hands.
And a droopy Lady Liberty towered over them all. Sort of.
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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