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Video: 'Occupy Atlanta' Silences Rep. John Lewis Via Jazz Hands (TOTALLY HILARIOUS!)
Town Hall.com ^ | Oct 09, 2011 4:18 PM | Guy Benson Political Editor, Townhall.com

Posted on 10/10/2011 6:48:44 PM PDT by drewh

Having watched this clip all the way through several times, I still can't stop chuckling. Here's a quick primer to prepare you for what you're about to see:

The video begins as civil rights pioneer Rep. John Lewis rrives at #OccupyAtlanta, hoping to express solidarity and articulate support with some brief remarks.

Unfortunately for him, the Congressman is totally unacquainted with the gathering's "rules," which make the US Senate look like a model of efficiency.

The group's "leader" (the hippie with the bullhorn) speaks in three-second intervals so the rest of the assembled group can chant his partial sentences back at him. They're speaking with "one voice," you see. In order to build a consensus, they "debate" whether Lewis should be permitted to speak, or if the program should continue as planned.

This quasi-vote is taken through a juvenile system of silent finger-wiggling (yes, really). The consensus shifts several times before the group settles on a conclusion: Lewis is not any more valuable than any other human being, his request to speak is therefore denied. This decision prompts an angry outburst from Lewis supporters, who immediately earn angry jazz hands of scorn for chanting out of turn.

The look on Lewis' face throughout these, um, "deliberations" is absolutely priceless. When his speaking opportunity is ultimately nixed, he just wanders off in a confused daze. Isn't the Left awesome, Congressman? The cringe-worthy preciousness and feel-goodery of the entire episode evokes a dystopic kindergarten setting, in which every child and teacher has equal say in everything. If it weren't so laugh-out-loud pathetic, I think this video represents a snapshot of my own personal hell.

UPDATE: The Washington Times' Kerry Picket emails to inform me that "Jazz Hands democracy" was also on display in New York this weekend.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: brainwashing; clowardpiven; consensus; dementalillness; democracy; demonic; georgia; jazzhands; johnlewis; occupyatlanta; occupywallstreet; psychopathicleft; revolutionaryleft
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To: drewh

Well, that raises my estimation of Lewis slightly. Had that been me, I would have been tiptoeing away as they explained how applause was counter-revolutionary. Can you imagine giving an address where the audience chanted it back at you? I wonder how obama and TOTUS would make out?There’s a wonderful plot for a horror movie here or maybe just use the clip as an alternative to the ‘Hitler Finds Out’ meme. Ugh! Just creepy. ‘Children of the Corn’ creepy.


41 posted on 10/10/2011 8:14:24 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: drewh

Occupy Atlanta: Demands and Strategy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMnz2uH3Q4g&feature=watch_response


42 posted on 10/10/2011 8:19:12 PM PDT by Atlantan
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To: reformedliberal

He has a bullhorn because he is in Atlanta and not NYC...


43 posted on 10/10/2011 8:22:56 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: reformedliberal

Here is the NYC version with some choice useful idiots...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsK2WeO7VbQ


44 posted on 10/10/2011 8:25:36 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: drewh

bump


45 posted on 10/10/2011 8:26:51 PM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: drewh

Hey Pelosi:

OWS idiots treated Lewis far worse than the Tea Party did.


46 posted on 10/10/2011 8:41:12 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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47 posted on 10/10/2011 8:43:29 PM PDT by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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To: drewh

Pathetic.

Does anyone there have a mind of his own, or is everyone a robot to be led around by some hippy with a megaphone?


48 posted on 10/10/2011 8:46:20 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: ltc8k6

My God. I didn’t think it could get any creepier, but seeing Francis Fox Piven there, and listening to her do this chanting brainwashing thing with the crowd was scary.

I listened to a good part of it. The other poster was right. We are laughing at them, but as Ann Coulter outlined in her book “Demonic”, that is the face of tyranny.


49 posted on 10/10/2011 8:47:37 PM PDT by rlmorel (9/11: Aggression is attracted to weakness like sharks are to blood, and we were weak. We still are.)
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To: drewh
Reason Magazine: Print|Email Silencing John Lewis Is What Democracy Looks Like


50 posted on 10/10/2011 8:51:09 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: drewh

Reminds me of the elementary school kids in the Barack Hussein Obama ...mmm mmm mmm video.


51 posted on 10/10/2011 8:59:08 PM PDT by freespirited (Stupid people are ruining America. --Herman Cain)
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To: drewh

This was funny.......this was funny
as hell............as hell
keep it up........keep it up
you blithering idiots......you blithering idiots


52 posted on 10/10/2011 9:16:27 PM PDT by doug from upland (Just in case, it has been reserved: www.TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: drewh
So they didn't let a black man speak. Gee I wonder what the media would have said had the Tea Party took a vote and decided not to let a black man speak.

I'm sure many of these "people" are the ones making vile comments about Sarah Palin and other conservatives in the comments section of many online articles. I was just stunned by how unbelievably stupid these people are. They shoulf be poster children and I do mean children for this so-called movement.

53 posted on 10/10/2011 9:21:50 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (So how did Charlie Weiss get to be on Dancing With The Stars?)
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To: yup2394871293

The Reason article makes a good point - these people don’t realize how completely their “group decisions” are manipulated by the Marxist facilitators. It would be worthwhile to hand out info on the Delphi Technique at such events, just on the off chance that some of them can read.


54 posted on 10/10/2011 9:23:48 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: ltc8k6

“It’s very creepy, and very slow, and very cultish...”

This is how you control forth graders at camp. The nature of the dispute (does letting him speak suggest that one person is better than another?) is a crazy as some of the debates I heard in Berkeley in the 70’s.


55 posted on 10/10/2011 9:32:34 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: RagingBull

K?

When they look back on this Jim Jones/David Koresh act, they are going to feel pretty silly for acting like 3 year olds and playing red light/green light.


56 posted on 10/10/2011 9:34:17 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: reagandemocrat
Hey Pelosi:
OWS idiots treated Lewis far worse than the Tea Party did.

Don't waste your time trying to convince Bela Pelosi. She's STILL claiming that Tea Partiers spit on members of Congress, even though that claim was debunked within 24 hours of her making it the first time!

57 posted on 10/10/2011 9:44:43 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: drewh

The operation shifting to Atlanta must be because of winter coming.

It gets too darn cold in NYC to sleep on the streets & protest for $350/week.


58 posted on 10/10/2011 9:54:50 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Chicago politics = corrupted capitalism = takeover by COMMUNity-ISM)
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To: SuziQ

Right. False allegations against the TP— Imagine the uproar had the Tea Party prevented Lewis from speaking.

Here, Lewis thought he was among his people and they voted/VOTED him/HIM down/DOWN with jazz hands.


59 posted on 10/10/2011 9:58:56 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: drewh

For the first time in over ten years of FReeping I am speechless.


60 posted on 10/10/2011 9:59:03 PM PDT by rogue yam
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