What do the NYPD and the Westboro Baptist Church have in common?

[IdaBriggs]

Neither know how to behave at funerals.

[MindPilot]

1. Exploiting the dead for political gain.

Hammer, meet nail.

[sarge43]

2. Good company you keep there, NYPD

Klassy.

[deminks]

3. Thank you, I was just saying the same thing this morning.

What makes them different?

Protesting at funerals -check
Grandstanding for the MEdia - check
brotherhood of hate - captive audience (turn your back on the mayor or we will make your life hell) - check

Their hate is the same. Their goal is the same. No difference, IMHO

[marym625]

4. I just replied to another thread with this:

I feel like so many have missed the point. 

Yes, it was disrespectful to not only the Mayor (which was the point) but it was disrespectful to the family. It took the focus off the funeral. The biggest discussion about the funeral is now that the cops, who supposedly came to honor one of their fallen brothers, turned their backs. No discussion, or very little, about Officer Ramos or his family. 

But the biggest thing is why they turned their backs. Because they are blaming someone that is blameless in the murder of these two officers. IMHO, it is wrong, stupid, propaganda, a fucking commercial for the cops and beyond disrespectful to the Ramos family

[Fred Sanders]

9. Turning their backs on logic and reason like lemmings...who needs facts when you got Faux News?

The mayor supports police killings and incites them..is that your fucking idiot conclusion....idiots.

Get thee a contract with fucking Fox, not with a police department.

[marym625]

10. wish it were the other way around

Who needs faux news when you have facts? But, unfortunately, those that listen to faux news won't ever listen to facts.

[Fred Sanders]

11. Notice "Fox" is pronounced exactly like "Faux"......not a fucking coincidence.

[Maynar]

15. Actually

Faux, the French word for fake is pronounced "fo."

Just sayin'

[Fred Sanders]

16. Yes, true, but then in America the French word for baguette, crepe and hollandaise....is mispronounced.

Do not get me started on Uranus.

[Maynar]

19. Let's just

leave my anus out of this, okay?

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kthxbye

[TNNurse]

5. Making yourself

The center of attention at a funeral means two things:
1) You are not dead
2) You do not respect the person who is.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. Yes!

Brilliant explanation!

[rpannier]

6. I was going to go with

They're embarrassing

[TBF]

7. Decline of a civilization

is what we're watching.

[2naSalit]

13. +1!

[IVoteDFL]

12. Why do they still have jobs?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but isn't the mayor essentially their boss? Obviously not directly, but isn't he somewhere up the line?

If you start drawing comparisons to one of America's most notorious hate groups, how can you still have a job seriously?

[IdaBriggs]

17. Rock and a hard place - we want to protect police officers

from being fired if they arrest criminals with political connections, but in this case they were disrespectful while in uniform.

[goldent]

20. It would make a very bad situation much worse nt

[eppur_se_muova]

14. More -- they think it's all about them. nt

[KMOD]

18. well said, Ida

K&R

[Cha]

21. Well done, Ida. I didn't even think of that yesterday but you're exaclty right. They both

disrespect the fallen at funerals.