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MOE LANE NOTES THE PRECEDENT: Pitchforks, torches now acceptable for political demonstrations. ?Fe?

By Glenn Reynolds

MOE LANE NOTES THE PRECEDENT: Pitchforks, torches now acceptable for political demonstrations. “Feel free to pass that around the next time somebody has the vapors about a Tea Party protest?” Yes, as I noted yesterday it seems an unwise precedent for them to establish.

UPDATE: Reader Gregory Taggart writes: “Hey, where were all the African Americans at that protest? I didn?t see any; therefore, the left is racist. (For that matter, where were all the people who could act or read their lines?)”

Not just an all-white mob with torches and pitchforks, but worse: a no-talent all-white mob with torches and pitchforks! Well, remember, they’re union workers so they’ve always been opposed to paying them according to their, uh, performance . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 20, 2010 (boomark / email).