Conservatives Criticize Free T-Shirts At Tucson Memorial Service

tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com ^ | January 12, 2011, 8:25PM | Evan McMorris-Santoro

[dfwgator]

Would they have had this rally if Giffords were a Republican?

[Freee-dame]

He did lay down the gauntlet to his own political party.

He did? It seemed more like he was speaking to both sides and, thanks to the DBM we know which is the nasty side. /s

[butterdezillion]

Interesting and very revealing contrast.

[McGavin999]

The dems are using the death of these people as an excuse to Party. The excessive drama is insulting. They didn’t know any of the people who died, why were they even attending a memorial?

[thethirddegree]

January 12th was the day that we lost our first child 18 years ago, stillborn.

That happened to my first wife and me as well, followed by a miscarriage, then our first living child who subsequently required 7 heart surgeries. I thank God for His grace and mercy that carried us throught it all.

[Red Badger]

Yes, only they would have added a triumph parade and a marching band.............

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Too bad they weren’t holding hands and singing “We Shall Overcome” in that picture. Obama’s first 2012 campaign event would have been a grand slam.

[Dead Corpse]

The Left's response to this whole tragedy has come across as "shrink wrapped and pre-scripted". From the very first shrill accusations, to the farce last night. Even the Fascist slogan on the t-shirts was pre-planned and ready to go to the presses on a moments notice.

Nothing in government takes less than a week to plan and events like this require a lot of coordination.

Wait for the event, execute the response.

Let's back up a second... I said "Fascist" up above. Too strong a word? I don't think so. "Together we thrive". Fascism is predicated on the notion that even though individual twigs may break, a strong bundle stays strong. Together with the pageantry and platitudes, you have an event that Mussolini would have been proud to have been a part of.

Just my two cents...

[The Great RJ]

Gee I don't recall Reagan's staff passing out t-shirts at the memorial for the Challenger astronauts, FDR's people passing out black arm bands for his Pearl Harbor speech on December 8th, 1941 or Lincoln's entourage hawking souvenirs at the Gettysburg Address.

[tomkat]

Together We Thrive Thieve

that's better

[wayne_b24]

gong gong gong

pc alert

the guilty party there comes from the “people who can’t be blamed”

[dools0007world]

Bingo. Campaign event—nothing more, nothing less. I can see these idiots in the Oval Office discussing how to take advantage of the AZ tragedy. Then someone comes up with the T-shirt idea. How apt of these Marxist frauds—and shallow and cheap.

[spokeshave]

But doesn’t everybody hand out free t-shirts at memorial services? /sarc

Yeah...just check out the upcoming wedding at Westminister Cathederal in UK ...

Royal purple T-shirts with a pic of the new coin in gold.

[Tucsonican]

Well...."Together We Thrive" isn't exactly something one normally hears at a memorial service. I mean, a memorial is usually about the deceased and taking the time to reflect. On the other hand, though, concern for other people and compassion really are kind of wasted if you don't get any political mojo out of it.

It was a remarkably tacky thing to do and the raucous cheering was mind boggling but democrats do live in a different world than the rest of us.

[spokeshave]

"I can see a whole new industry producing T-Shirts for funerals:

“Grandma is going to heaven and all I got was this lousy T- Shirt”.

Maybe it will catch on.

Yeah...many a true word spoken in jest....

You are going to get one right after your non-voluntary "Death Panel" phone conversation with some DMV bureaucrat.

[adorno]

Conservatives Criticize Free T-Shirts At Tucson Memorial Service

Well, not the democrats have another motto on their stack:

Never let a good funeral go to waste.

[combat_boots]

Why aren't liberals saying the T-shirts and bumper stickers were inappropriate? Or the theme as advertised "Together We Thrive"?

I, too, would like this nation and us to be the people our children want us to be, to fulfill their expectations. But I don't think our children have $14 trillion + in debt that they will have to pay as an expectation, anymore than they understand what that fact means for their futures, as well as our own.

[spokeshave]

"“Together We Thrive” sounds like the slogan of a anthrax bacteria colony. Or maybe termites.

0bambi's BORG

[Marty62]

Dr. Rhee is focused on his Patient, NOT ZERO and his synchophants.

[AGreatPer]

"She was impressed with Obama’s speech last night"

Praises from everywhere on the speech.
Hardly anyone picked up on the new logo/t-shirts except us far right wackos.