Batshit crazy Alan Keyes at Pittsburgh Tea Party

[RamboLiberal]

Did you miss Alan Keyes' big speech on the North Side this past weekend? You're not alone: While the Tribune-Review's coverage estimates the crowd at "several thousand," the Post-Gazette puts it at a more modest 1,500.

Which sort of sums up our plight as a country: Competing media outlets cover a political rally, but can't even agree on how many people were there.

Anyway, you can watch Keyes' speech for yourself by following these four links. Or you could, say, drive rusty nails into your gums. Your choice. But having sat through the full 40-minute experience -- no need to thank me -- I can tell you this speech is almost exactly what you'd expect.

It starts with Keyes comparing the Obama team to Al-Qaeda:

We have had foreign enemies who have sought to terrorize us with attacks, and we have domestic enemies who seek to terrorize us with economic collapse.

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Let's recall that one week to the day before Keyes gave his little pep-talk, three Pittsburgh police officers were gunned down -- apparently by a guy who thought the government was going to take away his guns. It is in this context, in this city, that Keyes chose to praise his audience as a group in which "every individual is an army empowered by their faith in God."

http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A61832

[KamaAina]

1. Competing media outlets?

Richard Mellon Scaife's Tribune-Review does NOT qualify as a media outlet. It is the 'Burgh's answer to the Moonie Times. Of course that fishwrap would wildly inflate the crowd estimates.

edit: Remember that McLoser campaign worker who ran around saying a big scary black man carved a backwards 'B' in her face? Guess which "media outlet" picked that non-story up and ran with it???

[Drunken Irishman]

2. That sign on the guy's back doesn't even make sense.

[MadMaddie]

3. I hope they enjoy their "Teabagger Parties"!

[valerief]

4. You're right, but then stupid people don't understand critical thinking. nt

[rpannier]

14. It fits in quite well with the rest of the *ahem* event

The whole things doesn't make much sense.

[NNN0LHI]

5. I guess the Minuteman gig didn't work out so well for Allen

[Aqaba]

6. Forgot to add this one... the expression on the face of the sign guy

[Enrique]

7. Keyes has the manner of a lizard creature

if he were caught on video eating live insects or basking on a rock on the sun I don't think anyone would even care. They'd think, yeah that's what I'd expect Alan Keyes to do.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. I am so insulted by your comment.

I know lizard people. Quite well. Hell, I DATED lizard people before, and frankly, for you to equate truly nice, friendly, smart lizard people with Alan Keyes, well that is going beyond the pale.

Apologize.

Now.

[sam sarrha]

8. GOP is sick to take these nut cases /ann the man/ off their meds and trot em out to get press ..

[chollybocker]

9. Pic 2. Keyes sticks out like a sore thumb at that party...

...but I can't quite put my finger on why...that is... ??? ;)

[rpannier]

11. The suit and tie???

He's the only one in the suit and tie.

Maybe that's it.

[sam sarrha]

12. it goes nicely with his delusional Schizophrenia

[Canuckistanian]

13. The Keyster!