Aug 31st, 2008 at 3:19 pm
On the Road
Just putting up a quick post from the Atlanta airport to let y’all know that I’m waiting for my flight to Minneapolis to go cover the Republican Convention with some other members of the ThinkProgress team. The exigencies of travel and convention coverage may alter the blogging schedule somewhat for the next few days but I’m hoping to bring some high-quality content to the world including, one hopes, some candid camera footage of what conservative activists really think. To that end, in National Airport (or “Reagan National Airport” as our conservative friends say) earlier I picked up this McCain for president cap — I’ve already been complimented on it several times since reaching Atlanta.
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August 31st, 2008 at 3:22 pm
your glasses are backwards, i think.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I take back my advice on your old blog. Grow the beard back immediately.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Are you ‘infiltrating’ the RNC?
August 31st, 2008 at 3:38 pm
This is what jockeying for the Pres-o-dent McCain press secretary gig looks like… that or an example of out-of-control ennui…
August 31st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Anything to make friends, eh Matt?
By the way, it occurred to me that the real purpose of the Palin pick is to put to rest fears about McCain’s age. If he’s having a mid-life crisis now, he’ll clearly live to 144.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Can you get a pair of glasses that are even bigger, please?
August 31st, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Wow, it seems that misspellings even manage to infiltrate pictures of yourself. That’s a feat.
August 31st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
So they’re selling hats with the McCain logo reversed? Or do you have a retarded webcam?
August 31st, 2008 at 4:14 pm
I hate to show my ignorance, but I don’t understand the joke on the cap. I actually can’t even tell if it’s pro- or anti-McCain. I assume anti- but….
August 31st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I always say National Airport. Anyone who questions that just tell them it was originally named after the 1st President of the United States.
August 31st, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I prefer my amabO cap
August 31st, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Be sure to give Ambinder his hat back when you’re done with it.
August 31st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
You should wear it like a rally hat. McCain’s going to need all the rallying in the world, including some divine intervention, to win this election.
August 31st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
drjimcooper: “I take back my advice on your old blog. Grow the beard back immediately.”
I’ve encountered cases like this before. It’s his girlfriend’s doing. Matt, she’s not worth it. Ditch the chick and become a man again.
August 31st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Vampire-Americans everywhere denounce your mirror image.
August 31st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Travel safe Matt.
As a traditional conservative voter, I’m eagerly tuned into your blog again during this election for an impartial and fair pov.
Bring back some good stuff from the convention.
August 31st, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Anyone have a wanted poster the picture could be put into?
I strongly suspect that the only thing MattY is going to be capable of doing is a lukewarm MaxBlumenthal type of sleazy video. Anyone else who’s going and who actually wants to do a public service and some reporting should try to ask McCain or a surrogate this.
And, the last thing I expect is for MattY to succeed where Newsweek, Ambinder, and some bloggers failed/”failed”: 24ahead.com/blog/archives/007842.html
August 31st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I had forgotten that 24 was the new name of the eternally racist Lone Wacko. Shame on me.
August 31st, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Grow out the beard, you look like a serial killer.
August 31st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Does it burn?
August 31st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I’ve put some links here for anyone who wants to follow police activity at the RNC. Some preemptive arrest have already been made.
August 31st, 2008 at 5:32 pm
It’s a Narcissus cap. Printed backward for mirror gazing.
August 31st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
that hat is a 501(c)4 violation
August 31st, 2008 at 5:47 pm
ER.. if you’re trying to infiltrate a hostile environment, you usually don’t brag about it in Advance on an Internet blog and post your picture.
On the other hand, if you’re looking for an ass-whipping administered by some drunken shitkickers from Texas, this is about the best approach I’ve seen.
Especially if Megan, Ross or Michael O’Hanlon see you.
August 31st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
So is the cap actually backwards, or was this shot in a mirror, or has it been H-flipped in photoshop?
Because I think I’d kind of like to push the McCain=Backwards meme, with a hat of my own….
August 31st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Someone tell Ashton that mirror-reversed caps are the new trucker hats.
August 31st, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Don’t bother showing up here in the Twin Cities — all the media have already evidently decamped for New Orleans. Don’t think any Republicans will show either. You’ve got to feel a little sorry for poor old Tim Pawlenty…
August 31st, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Why do I think it has been photoshopped…
I think you should show it next to something else with writing on it–say a big billboard.
August 31st, 2008 at 7:23 pm
OK, this is deliberate ridicule bait. No fun. I ain’t biting.
August 31st, 2008 at 7:47 pm
1) Matthew should remember the First Rule of Crossdressing –from The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
First One Who Screams Gets Shot in the Tits
2) But if Matthew REALLY wants the story, he might try wearing black fishnet stockings and hot pants at the Republican National Convention. Larry Craig presumably left some lonely hearts when he moved on. Ask Andrew for some intros.
And if Matthews admits –behind closed doors — that he’s really a liberal blogger, that will just add the thrill of “Forbidden Fruit” to the soiree.
August 31st, 2008 at 7:52 pm
that hat is a 501(c)4 violation
It just dawned on me that he reversed the hat image for exactly that reason.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Whether there’s a convention or just a pro-forma business meeting, there’s good blogging to be done in the Twin Cities over the next few days. Lindsay and Jane are doing some primary reporting, but I look forward to your discussion of Sheriff Fletcher’s pre-emptive raids, the street arrests, and the justifications for and contents of the warrants. And the starring role that Federal agents and Federal monies played in the investigation and the raids.
August 31st, 2008 at 9:17 pm
His hat being backward is appropriate, because his whole approach to this thing has been backwards.
“Anyone have a wanted poster the picture could be put into?”
I think a Simpson’s cartoon would be more appropriate. No self-respecting criminal would look like this on a wanted poster. When I was first arrested, all the other guys in the Federal holding facility said I didn’t look like a bank robber. Six months later, they said I did. That’s what jail does to you.
Meanwhile, if Matt isn’t careful, he’ll end up like these guys:
Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/us/politics/30arrests.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1220104985-Dcl+Tjoc3eipfJB8HL+HPQ&oref=slogin
Report: Massive, warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/30/report-massive-warra.html
August 31st, 2008 at 9:19 pm
That’s probably the best reason for a disguise. With police detaining people for no reason, you’ll need all the help you can get, even if you don’t plan on making Obama-sympathetic posts.
August 31st, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Our conservative “friends” don’t say “Reagan National Airport”, they say “Reagan AIrport”, and they get very uppity when the word National even appears in the title. I know. I hear it all the time. I also see it on the Internet. A while back I noticed that Wikipedia had gone to “Washington-Reagan” for referring to National. I tried to alter it to “Washington-Reagan National” on a couple of pages. Within a half an hour it was changed back again.
August 31st, 2008 at 9:33 pm
More on the raids here:
RNC Protests: Police Raid Headquarters
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/rnc-protests-police-raid_n_122787.html
August 31st, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Photographic evidence that the FBI was there (page top bottom).
August 31st, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Very effective quote from Glenn’s column:
Welcome to Communist China, folks!
August 31st, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Taking your picture in mirror?
Good low-tech self portrait.
S.P. Gass
http://lowtechtimes.com
August 31st, 2008 at 11:43 pm
If your candid footage reveals anyone saying anything inappropriate, they can probably just apologize and call you a left-wing nutcase.
At least, that’s how the ex-DNC chair handled his experience.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:51 am
Be on the lookout for toe-tapping conservatives in Minneapolis.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:14 am
Legal guys on the Minneapolis raid and arrest scene :
Coldsnap Legal Collective
I’m still looking for a place where I can contribute to a defense fund.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:43 am
Joel, keep an eye out at Unfogged.com. No promises, but we’re working on a legal defense fund.
September 1st, 2008 at 8:40 am
DC to Atlanta to Minneapolis? Are you a Delta frequent flyer?
September 1st, 2008 at 8:57 am
DC to Atlanta to Minneapolis? Are you a Delta frequent flyer?
Actually, yes, but it’s a coincidence — we just made the reservations at the last minute.
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