Well, you would have to ask the columnist I quoted, but I would imagine he might respond by pointing to Abbie's more silly antics like his march on the Pentagon with Ginsberg and Dr. Spock and a handful of Tibetan monks threatening to use psychic energy to make the pentagon levitate and glow orange, or maybe the bags of dog shit mixed with piss he handed out to his Yippies to pelt Chicago Police with at the DNC in 1968. Perhaps he might point to the media hound he was, or the common tactic of duping reporters with the "Average Joe Hippy" that sure was a whole lot like Joe the Plumber.You said the columnist "hit the nail on the head" so I'm wondering how you thought they did.
Maybe the author would also mention Abbie's penchant for disrupting courts, politician speeches, community meetings and even The Who concert at Woodstock with his flamboyant theatrics and general bullshit If you ask me, Pete Townsend should have smashed his guitar over that nutcase's head instead of merely using it as a battering ram.
The reality is, Abbie, like many of the tea baggers, was really just an egomaniac that used politics as a vehicle to perpetuate their cult of personality. Originally Posted by phatdaty
Hoffman wrapped himself in the flag literally by famously wearing a shirt out of a US flag and the flag on your T-bag pic. That's was my initial impression of what you meant but it seemed flimsy so I asked for further clarification.
Many political movements in this country hold rallies, protests, show up at town hall meetings. I don't recall anything as outlandish or flamboyant as the Hoffman examples you state but really haven't been keeping up with the TEA party. Did I miss something weird other than grossly misspelled signs? You also point out that some people are trying to "make a name for themselves" with the TEA party. I would contend that is one of the purposes of political movements and political parties themselves.
