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Mount Rushmore Defaced
Fox News ^ | 07/08/2009 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 07/08/2009 2:04:14 PM PDT by Husker

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and . . . Barack Obama?

Patriotic tourists visiting the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota on Wednesday found a fifth face displayed -- and not as a compliment -- next to the giant stone carvings of four legendary presidents.

A group of environmental activists connected with Greenpeace unfurled an enormous banner showing President Obama's face and calling for an end to global warming.

The 65-foot by 35-foot banner — which read "America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians: Stop Global Warming" — was hung to the immediate right of Lincoln at about 10 a.m. local time, said Patty Rooney, a spokeswoman for the National Park Service's Midwest Regional Office.

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I can't believe this. I'd love to have been there to catch these pricks doing this.
1 posted on 07/08/2009 2:04:14 PM PDT by Husker
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To: Husker

They just don’t get it.

We can carry in Nat’l parks again!


2 posted on 07/08/2009 2:06:15 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Palin shrugged.)
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To: Husker

Death to Greenpeace. My gloves are off!


3 posted on 07/08/2009 2:07:58 PM PDT by MarineBrat (The New York Times is a Communist Kamikaze.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Target Practice!!


4 posted on 07/08/2009 2:08:21 PM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
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To: Husker

This will only end with some butt kicking..


5 posted on 07/08/2009 2:08:59 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: handy old one

We need to start guarding it with snipers!!!


6 posted on 07/08/2009 2:09:21 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: Husker

Oh, I thoght someone blew a nose or something off.


7 posted on 07/08/2009 2:10:02 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
We can carry in Nat’l parks again!

Since when? Last I heard ZerO had put the kibosh on it.

8 posted on 07/08/2009 2:10:51 PM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Husker

I know for a fact that there is a significant amount of security equipment at the site - weird. Inside assistance? Hope not.


9 posted on 07/08/2009 2:10:55 PM PDT by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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To: Husker

10 posted on 07/08/2009 2:11:26 PM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: Husker
A group of environmental activists connected with Greenpeace unfurled an enormous banner showing President Obama's face

I wonder if these environmental wackos paid their carbon offsets for the making of the banner and their transportation to the park to carry out this little shennanigan.

11 posted on 07/08/2009 2:11:26 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Husker

The 338 Lapua would be good for gently taking each one down.../sc


12 posted on 07/08/2009 2:12:09 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (I spent all my money on women & booze, the other rest I just plain blew.)
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To: handy old one

I HOPE these bastards were arrested Mason Dixon


13 posted on 07/08/2009 2:12:30 PM PDT by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Nuf said!! Ready Aim Fire. Take the perp out!!


14 posted on 07/08/2009 2:12:41 PM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
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To: MEGoody

MObama/Black Hills reference in 5,4 3,2..


15 posted on 07/08/2009 2:12:41 PM PDT by Batman11 (Chicago, Land of Lincoln who freed the slaves and Land of Obama who enslaved the free.)
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