"TOWN HELL" MEETINGS, LISTENING TOURS AND KNUCKS
Congresspeople have town hall meetings. Knucks interrupt them with all manner of out of order shouting, showing no respect at all for the speaker who might have the floor at that moment. Other Knucks support that as "Free Speech".
Then the same Knucks rail at Senator Durbin for having a completely different kind of meeting where he is gathering specialized information. They're just angry because he didn't give them an opportunity for a knuck-fest.
Let me quickly add that rudeness knows no political stripe. Lefties have done similar pukey behavior.
Where's Rodney King when we need a little street philopophy?
posted by UMRBlog @ 10:42
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12 Comments:
Is "knuck" a knucklehead? I'm having a nimrod moment.
Yes, I'm in a typing conservation mode.
TYFCB
Way to go green.
It saves on bytes.
I thought you were dissin' the Canadians. :)
There has been some rudeness, but an SEIU union thu (short for thug) was caught on tape instructing other union buds how to interrupt those that opposed government health care by shouting them down with chants.
Obama has said he wants his opponents to shut up and get out of his way.
Pointed questions with brief outbursts of zeal seem fitting enough. But rudeness not only comes from both political sides of the crowd, but also from our congressmen.
Most hard and pointed questions get talked around, so the aura of simmering outrage is perhaps more expressive than the traditional "question, evasive answer" session.
And the outrage is real ... but there is room for some zeal AND decorum.
Rude is rude and you really can't put lipstick on it by calling it "free speech."
I do agree there has to be better vehicles for interactive discussion, though. See, we used to have journalists for that...and even newspapers.
TYFCB
You had to go and open that can of worms, didn't you? (14:55)
yeah, good point. The "press" doesn't use the printing press as much now, but it would be good if they would still press our politicians with probing questions.
They have the power to hold congressmen accountable if they evade answers or lie, but too many have become promoters instead of journalists.
But for the masses, the squeeky wheel has been known to get the grease.
You're a psychic or something...or did you set this up with ole' Joe from South Carolina?
0636,
Nobody's asking what a "knuck" is now. That's something. I guess it's eligible for "demonstration sport" status at the 2020 olympics.
TYFCB
UMR,
Since you asked — Rodney King is getting ready to spend Sept. 11 in the boxing ring fighting (wait for it), a police officer.
The two were on the Howard Stern show earlier this week talking smack. They were both knucks.
http://deadspin.com/5338124/rodney-king--yes-that-one--to-fight-a-cop
PPGA COMMISH,
Two thoughts on that: First, what the heck were you doing watching Howie (Just when I thought you had evolved.); and, second, better check what's in the cut man's rinse bottle between rounds. Rodney going three minutes without some Grey Goose would be an upset.
TYFCB
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