Hmmmmm, something about this one smells to high heaven . .
According to Raw Story, and Iowa’s Quad City Times, yesterday’s McCain/Palin rally in Davenport was disrupted by 2 supposed protesters brandishing a large picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, accompanied by the by-line from their classic 1971 anti-war campaign – “War Is Over”.
Check out the full story below the fold . .
UPDATE: OK, now color me extremely intrigued . .
From The Nation, September 15, 2008
The man John McCain appointed to head his transition team, William E. Timmons, played a central role in the Nixon Administration's campaign to deport John Lennon in 1972.
As Raw Story tells it:
As McCain asks the crowd "Who is ready to lead," protesters holding signs that read 'No more war' with photos of John Lennon and Yoko Ono began chanting "No More War," and then calls of "We want John" filled the hall.
Senator McCain's speech is completely stopped by the crowd
Hmm - “We Want John” – Lennon or McCain? Whatever. Anyway, the Quad City Times adds a little detail to help you understand just what kind of hippie scum we are dealing with here. Apparently, these filthy long-haired bastards…
…kicked two small girls and made them cry
Wow. Peacenik scum! Child-abusing drug-addicts. Obama supporters!
However, all was not lost, and the loyal crowd saved the day for their grateful leader, although showing far more restraint than recent rally incidents would have led us to fear. The would-be Terrorists were peaceably, but firmly, ushered from the hall, after having been:
roundly booed and taunted with plastic thundersticks and pompoms
That'll teach 'em. The Times then managed a couple of exclusive, in depth interviews with enthusiastic McCain supporters in the hall, but were strangely incurious about the identities of those damn surrender-loving appease-nik socialists, who seemingly managed to disappear quietly into the Iowa night, by all lack of accounts.
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OK, let's get this straight. So a couple of days ago, McCain gets to have one of his copyrighted, in-depth, up-close Town Hall-style chats, this one about being beaten up by opposition supporters, with a guy who seemed to be the only man of color in the whole hall, and who, as it later turned out, just so happened to be a local right-wing nut-job newscaster.
And now this. Suddenly, it’s about the war again? John and Yoko!!?
You know, I got to thinking. These guys are searched for pistols, knives, even cans of beer by ultra-tight security. It would be next to impossible to get a 6’ by 6’ folded heavy paper or cloth sign in without being caught by a frisker. And am I the only one to whom this clunky, transparent modus operandi doesn't just reek to high heaven?? Who but the McCain campaign would go for such out-dated imagery to pull this kind of ratfuck?
On the other hand, it could have all been for real, i guess.
Here’s what I want to know – who the hell were these people? If they are true anti-war protesters, the chance that they don’t know at least one person who reads DK is next to nil, so let’s have them come forward, get a quick round of applause for their ingenuity, and then politely tell them that Barack’s get the message thing quite under control, thanks, please wait at home, we’ll call you with the next move.
If, on the other hand, if these radical '60's cats are, as I strongly suspect plants, can some local folks give the vids a quick once over and see if we can come up with some names, to confirm? Could be fun . .