(Via
Powerline)
MoveOn held a tent revival meeting for wingnuts and Senator
Foghorn, er, Bobby "Sheets" Byrd showed 'em how it's supposed to be done, much to their dismay:
At times during MoveOn.org's "Rally for Fair Judges," held yesterday at the Washington Court Hotel near the Capitol, it was hard to tell if the left-wing organizing group had planned a political rally or a revival meeting.
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But the star of the show was the 87-year-old senator from West Virginia, Robert Byrd, who had been an advocate of the "nuclear option" back in the 1970s, when his party was in the majority. Now, he opposes it with every fiber in his body, and he portrayed stopping the GOP as a religious crusade.
"Praise God!" Byrd yelled as he waved the copy of the Constitution he famously keeps in his coat pocket. "Hallelujah!"
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When other speakers came to the podium, Byrd sat in a front-row seat, thrusting a shaking fist in the air and engaging in a church-style call-and-response. As Durbin spoke, for example, Byrd called out during nearly every sentence.
"You started a movement," Durbin told the crowd.
"Yes!" shouted Byrd.
"When I look at the people assembled here, I'm looking at democracy."
"Tell it!" shouted Byrd.
"It's about freedom," Durbin said.
"Yes!" shouted Byrd.
When Byrd began his performance, some in the audience didn't quite know what was going on — they were far back in the crowd and couldn't see who was calling out up front. The speakers didn't seem to get it, either. When MoveOn organizer Ben Brandzel warmed up the crowd by vowing that he would not surrender to a president trying to "sell out our democracy for right-wing corporate hack judges," Byrd yelled out, "No!"
"That's right, Senator Byrd," Brandzel said, looking a bit surprised.
Maybe ole Sheets would have calmed down if he had borrowed Ted Kennedy's pocket flask:
Kennedy, for example, referred to Barbara Boxer as Barbara Mikulski. He referred to William Myers, the Bush judicial nominee, as William Morris. And he kept telling the crowd to "speak truth to justice," apparently confusing that with the more common liberal exhortation to "speak truth to power."
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