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[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Courtesy of the NYT, via Wonkette, scenes from a GOP protest in Gotham:

• At one point, as hundreds of guests with invitations waited to pass through velvet barriers to enter the club, a small group of men in bowler hats and women in gowns marched up, chanting, "Four more wars" and "Re-elect Rove."
  
  As the group approached, a man who appeared to be a security agent of some type, was overheard whispering into a microphone: "We've got two groups. One for and one against."
  
  Actually, it was two against. The person was confused by a group that calls itself Billionaires for Bush, a collection of activists who use satire to make a political point. Indeed, members of the Sierra Club, who were protesting on the other side of the street were also confused and began shouting at what they thought was a pro-Bush contingent.
  
  "We want the truth and we want it now!" the Sierra protesters shouted.
  
  The billionaires shouted back, "Buy your own president!"

That sounds like the time Michael Moore hired the Infernal Bridegroom theater troupe to cheer outside of Ellis Unit during an execution.

• David Atwood, president of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and Dudley Sharp, vice president of Justice for All, both visibly pissed off, yelled at each other at almost exactly the same time, "Did you do this?" then, "No!"
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  "Is this what George Bush wants?" asked Atwood. "The cheerleaders?" Sharp put his hand on Atwood's shoulder and said, "Anti-death-penalty and pro-death-penalty strongly believe in what they're doing, and that doesn't include disrespecting the other side." Meanwhile, a bare-chested, body-painted, football-helmeted man ran through the crowd with a "Death" pennant.

http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2...l/1/index.html