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Atlanta in August…

It is very near MARTA, the public transportation system

TEA BAG THE LIBERAL DEMS BEFORE THEY what now?

Atlanta in August??? geez-o-pete, why not St. Paul in January? or maybe Malaysia during monsoon season …

here’s to 80 pasty, pudgy proles stepping off the plane at Hartsfield and melting into a puddle of Red State goo …

How did these guys EVER succeed?

Don’t you wonder what kind of “special guests” might be showing up?

The kind you can’t name because it would reduce attendance?

It is very near MARTA, the public transportation system, on a straight line from Atlanta’s airport.

…which you will presumably not be using, because the MARTA is for Those People.

(Actually, no: pasty Buckheadians would take the MARTA to the airport, but they wouldn’t ever consider using the Park and Ride instead of sitting in traffic every morning and evening.)

Point is, though, that those strip clubs on Piedmont which have the “Welcome Conventioners” signs outside will want the RedInAStaters driving there. Until they see their sweaty asses get out.

This should be a good season for Motel 6, corndogs, and candy floss, if they can get anyone to attend. From the sound of that non-refundable fifteen bucks, repeated umpteen times, they’re not too hopeful.

P.S. TBogg finds the most awesome graphics. I just realized those are KKKlanners on the ferris wheel. BIZARRE.

Do you mean to tell me that despite their tremendous clout as the most powerful wingnut blog evah, they couldn’t convince Mitt Romney to get them a good deal at the Marriott? He sits on the board of directors after all.

My God can it be that the righties’ online bark is much louder than their bite???

Can the ersatz chocolate of Christianism and the salmonella-tainted peanut butter of the wingnuts be the end of the product line for movement conservatives?

80 people??? Sheeeeit.

20% of this country may be Fundies and 20% be Birchers but without them bamboozling the muddled middle there’s no powerbloc there, just a lot of heat and noise.

They’re pleading with folks and hoping to get 80 people?

They should invite the Duggars & Octomom.

Ah, but just wait until this thing gets the Fox PR package that was given to the t-bagging… After 400 hourly mentions on Hannity and a heartfelt personal plea for attendance by Greta van S it’ll be all “First, we take Atlanta, then we take DC.”

Maybe she can get Todd Palin to give a talk about the merits of chastity belts, that’d make a great key note for a bunch of keyboard commandos with a, ahem, rudimentary and largely virtual knowledge of all things carnal and fun.

Assuming we get 80 confirmed attendees quickly who need hotel rooms, we’ll get an even lower room rate for early bookers

I misread this, I thought it said hookers. Cancel my reservation. Of course, I didn’t notice the detail on the ferris wheel either (thx Lesley).

Following the “two awesome groups” will be a gnarly dude who will explain nutrition, a totally radical hipster to teach vocabulary, and a performance by an inspirational motivational instructor who will teach the attendees to not do drugs and to catch each other when they fall backwards on cue. And free continental breakfast.

As a former Atlantan (well, Decaturite) who saved untold gas money by proudly riding MARTA to work every day, I’m just as surprised as the rest of you that a guy like Erickson would be holding up MARTA access as a plus. But maybe he’s just excited about the opportunity to proselytize to a (fairly captive) minority audience about how they should get off their dumb lazy asses and start voting for the Republicans who really and truly love them.

Here’s how he could promote his event in Georgia. He should have speaking engagements in many cities on the way to Atlanta, and he should drive an orange Dodge Charger with an American flag painted on top. The Charger should have a horn that plays “Yankee Doodle” and be named after some hero who unified America. General Sherman comes to mind. He could travel throughout the South, getting larger and larger crowds at each stop.

Epic Success guaranteed!

80 people or 80 rooms booked? I doubt the Hyatt cares how many people attend and instead cares about how many rooms are booked. Something tells me if 80 John Gaults booked 20 rooms with 4 John Gaults per room, the Hyatt wouldn’t give them that awesome discount.

That’s wonderful. I was wondering what happened to PUMA honcho Will Bower. I guess he’s Red State’s event planner.

Atlanta in August; why, was the surface of the sun already booked?

Damn, 19 other people beat me to every good joke. Stringonastickformerlymakeitstop can’t you pick a shorter name? I was reading the previous thread about Jonah’s sweat glands out loud to Mr. Aimai and I really had trouble with your monicker.

aimai

There is a Christopher Guest script about to be written.

It’s really too bad he isn’t scheduling it for the beginning of September, when DragonCon is going on. So much easier to do creative crowd size estimation then, doncha know. After all, Star Trek has now been declared a perfect conservative movie, so all of Fandom ought really to count as sympathetic to the Erik.

(Felicia Day is going to be at DragonCon this year, and the combination of Red Staters with a Dr. Horrible LARP would be highly, highly amusing.)

Yep, I believe the treatment has already been written. It’s called
Waiting for Joe the Plumber. Or possibly A Not So Mighty Wind.

Ya know Tbogg, you just might enjoy yourself at this Red State-apoluza. I had to click thru your post and browse the Eagle Publishing site and it appears that you may have more in common with the Red State/Human Events/Renergy Publishing demographic than you realize. If you scroll down and look at the sophisticated graphs on this page you’ll learn that 81% of the collective Eagle Publishing audience is in fact male. Last I heard, weren’t you that same gender? 70% percent of them are college graduates and 88% are homeowners – you could swap Skull & Bones hijinks and home improvement nightmare stories with them (”it is SO fucking hard to find a white contractor in San Diego!”).

And what are you always complaining about? Not enough time to read, right? Well guess what, the number one hobby of 70% of Eagle Publishing consumers is book reading! Now granted, the Eagle folks may be reading something slightly different than you, such as the latest releases from Renergy publishing (”Everything They Say About the Great Depression and the New Deal is Wrong” “Green Hell-Going Green is No Longer a Choice, It’s a Government Mandate” and of course the Bernie Goldberg NYT best seller, “A Slobbering Love Affair-This Time They Went Beyond Bias“), but why quibble over content, reading is reading, right?

And, granted, your hobbies and their hobbies may diverge slightly as you go down the list; for example, television and church are tied for second and third place at 48%. But hey, you don’t want to be totally surrounded by people just like you. Who wants to spend all their time in a wingnut or moonbat echo chamber anyway?!? It will give you even more to talk about while you’re shut in the Hyatt in Atlanta in August! Quit being so snarky and get out your Working Assets Visa card and send homeboy $15 so he can lock in his deal!

Or No Mighty, Just Wind. Or Best In Slow. Or This Is More Excruciating Than A Spinal Tap.

A RedState welcome package? What the hell is that? Clown shoes and a seltzer bottle?

I’m guessing that the “welcome” package will consist of one of those Sarah Palin coffee mugs and a $10 off coupon for the local massage parlor. (Brace yourself for molto complaints in the hotel coffee shop the next day about how the masseuses should be required to speak English to facilitate the negotiation for a happy ending.)

80 people at $15 a piece equals $1200. the mighty core of the “center-right” universe can’t pony up a little over a grand for teh gayest greatest gathering evah?!?!

“two very awesome groups make some presentations on activism…”

I’m thinking one of them will be motivational speaker extraordinaire Richard Hoover:

“There’s two kinds of people in this world, there’s winners and there’s losers.”

Atlanta is the perfect town for these folks to hold their shindig. I mean, where else are they going to be able to tap into a supremely well-educated and well-connected segment of the black population of America?

I wanna attend the workshop on How the GOP can win back the minority vote.

Dear American blacks …

That’s gonna be so fucking awesome.

I agree with holymoe, TBogg. I don’t think you should miss this Fapapalooza. I bet if you set up a PayPal account, your vast readership would kick in the fifteen bucks. Maybe even enough to take the bassets along, too.

That corner of Peachtree and Piedmont? No shade, and permanently under construction. Those not dissolving into a pool of lard will get run over by Buckhead Betty’s Mercedes.

Atlanta is the perfect town for these folks to hold their shindig. I mean, where else are they going to be able to tap into a supremely well-educated and well-connected segment of the black population of America?

No, that’s just Erik bin Erik being cheap. All he has to do is drive up I-75. Wait until the attendees find out they could have taken MARTA to two blocks from the hotel for $1.75 instead of that $50 cab ride in traffic. (And most of the cabdrivers will be foreign.)

Ya’ll think so small. With tbogg leading the charge I’ll bet we could get all 1500 from Netroots Nation to show up and show these Redstaters how to throw a real convention!

And, of course, the keynote speaker would be Charlie Crist.

Exactly, that’s not much of bag to be stuck with. I mean, not if your the guy that just called down to the cage to cut-off Crist, effectively starving him out of his race.

I think they would have a better chance of success if they reserved Farmer Bubba’s sorghum field for the and had a sign up sheet for sharing sleeping slots in off the road vehicles and pick up trucks.

They could even pool their Arby’s coupons for the Saturday buffet.

The possibilities are endless if they only used their imagination.

Oh, yeah, they don’t have any.

Last time I was in Atlanta I had to get a cab because of a horrendous traffic jam — in the hotel’s underground parking lot. And don’t be surprised if the cab driver doesn’t turn on his meter for a short run.

Wait, wait, wait.

Are you sure the Red State gang aren’t trying to start their very own Afro-centric celebration? I mean, they can’t use Juneteenth, that’s already taken, plus they’re going for August so using Juneteenth would sound stupid.

Maybe their really sneaky bastards and have come up with a way to recruit American Blacks into the GOP by hosting all the top white boy hip-hop stars, poetry slam winners and the top male models in the modeling world.

Rush Limbaugh, Michael “Blue” Steele and Rove are going to be the headliners from what I hear.

Sneaky fuckers they be.

Atlanta in August is hot? The first YearlyKos was in Las Vegas in June. Betcha it was hotter then than Atlanta in August will be.

The comments on this thread are killing my abdominal muscles.

Well guess what, the number one hobby of 70% of Eagle Publishing consumers is book reading!

Don’t forget that classic: Chickenhawk Soup for the Soulless

It’s gotta have teabags right?

Hate to spoil the fun, but just about everything is air-cnditioned there except the outdoors.

Although the last time I was there the Buckhead section of Atlanta was considered upper-crust and heavily populated by, uhm, “artistic” people. This could be interesting….

travy hits it on the nose. They can’t guarantee $1800? I’m tempted to send it to them. Charity is a virtue after all.

But I think it would do them good to try to scrape it up themselves. Maybe a couple of bake sales or lemonade stands- summer is nearly here. Or some blow jobs. It’s a tough economy.

Agreed, travy.

Though isn’t this guy the chiseler that tried to soak his readers for $30,000 because website software was controlled by an evil liberal coder conspiracy or something like that? If so, his ambitions have sure fallen. Or maybe he just needs a bit of bodywork done on his car.

Oops, I was a bit less precise on that last one, I’m not sure I meant guarantee $1800 so much as the 80 rooms. Really, they are trying to guarantee $109 X 80, $8720. Presumably the hotel needs that ca. 15% deposit.

The whole thing remains tremendously lame. I’m guessing the hotel thinks it will make money on the Spectravision charges.

My mistake, it was only 25 grand.

Aimai, I’d like to shorten my name but the new digs here are such that once you have on, you can’t change it!

Ahem. Vegas is a dry heat. Atlanta in August is like a sweaty Limbaugh squatting on your head.

In a surprise move, they’ve decided that it takes an activist to catch an activist (or something like that). Accordingly, they have booked both ACORN* and George Soros** as the special guest speakers.

* Some guy who claims he was once in ACORN.

**Some out-of-work actor who can speak with an accent.