The REAL Reason Obama’s Olympic Bid Failed – UPDATED 9:30PM
Six people arrested Tuesday evening in a small protest of Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Games were charged with mob action Wednesday.
The five men and one woman interrupted crews that were attempting to hang an Olympic laurel from the Picasso statue in Daley Plaza by dragging the Olympic banner and tossing it into the “eternal flame,” authorities said.
Apparently their protest was more effective than I would have expected.
UPDATE 9:30PM – High praise! to commenter George Guy of The Prophet of Neofederalism for proving Obama is NOT like Hitler:
Hitler was able to bring the Olympics to Berlin.
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October 3rd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Changing the subject, but what was it Obama said about the Special Olympics? (Not sure what reminded me of that.)
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
They should have burned an American Flag. Then it would have been a legitimate protest.
October 3rd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I am hurt. My six best friends get together and have fun and I am not invited! Worse, I’m beginning to think it was Brian that stole my stash.
October 3rd, 2009 at 3:41 pm
The wuss factor of the Chicago mob activity has gone way down since Barry left town. Be afraid Chicago, be very afraid.
October 3rd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
No doubt the creme de la creme of Chicago’s public school system.
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I couldn’t help but laugh. These kids were just protesting to simply protest.
“Rage against the… ummm… tobacco? No, that’s been done…. I know, let’s go rage against the Olympics! SWEET! Then we can play Rock Band and get high. WOO HOO!”
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Hold on, wait, don’t tell me. Are they…hippies?
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
A happy elf, Dana Carvey w/ dreadlocks, the world’s most dedicated D&D fan, a hungover sorority chick, a big-earringed androgynous guy that might be a dwarf, and a mean ugly elf with terrible hair: The unlikely fellowship that spoiled Obama’s quest for the Olympic Rings.
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
You got me. I saw the pics. Read the first line, and assumed you were goofin’ on us. Without reading further I was trying to figure out which of these harmless youths were Axelrod, Ayers, Jennings, Jarret, Bertha Lewis, and The One.
I was pulling my hair after the two obvious ones – top left (Obambi before tanning formula) and bottom middle (Lewis).
Then I read more and the irony dawned on me. Not the current White House occupants and closest buds, but the newest batch of Communists, anarchists, and generally angry, discontented, rudderless youth; spawned from the same leftist brew as The Won & company.
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
fine looking bunch of protesters – just need some facial tattoos
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Oooh, KB51 — most excellent dig!!! And, apparently, Karma remains a bitch.
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Well, just look at them. Clearly the vast right wing conspiracy against Obama strikes again.
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:26 pm
That’s why I never stop when I drive past Chicago.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Never mind this intelligent and broadminded crew, I want to see the jury of their peers. I would pay to sit through the voir dire process on that one. Wait a minute. Ummm. No I wouldn’t.
Taking second and third looks at that train wreck of photos makes me believe that the orphanage should have left them in the white trash bags in the dumpster that they were found in.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
upon first seeing their photos, I immediately thought, “what a bunch of conservative extremists, clearly clinging to their religions and guns. They are clearly part of the right-wing noise machine, doing the bidding of their evil lord, Darth Limbaugh. ” BTW, would anybody here ever HIRE any of these miscreants wastes of air fine young folks?
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:04 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the strikethrough functionality is gone with wordpress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111!1
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Hey, at least this puts the Hitler comparisons to rest.
Hitler was able to bring the Olympics to Berlin.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:06 pm
okay, I figured it out:
Would anybody here ever HIRE any of these
miscreantswastes of airfine young folks?for the record, the new [strike] tag is stupid. In case anybody was wondering.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:16 pm
What a bunch of racists!
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Aliens. Racist aliens. What is this
worlduniverse coming to?October 3rd, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I’m sure they have their reasons. And I’m sure I don’t want to know them.
You know, the more I look at those images, Harvey, the more I’m convinced they represent a cross-section of the 52% who elected Obi Wan Obama.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Five men and one woman….it took me 5 minutes to come to a conclusion on which was the woman.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:43 pm
The names are hilarious. Jeremy, Jason, Jeremy, and Jonathan. What, no Jennifer and Justin?
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:45 pm
This just goes to show how incredibly dangerous hippies can be.
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:02 pm
my whole life I knew people who looked exactly like these losers.
if you have a party the guy at the top left will fall asleep on your couch in the middle of the party and urinate on himself.
the girl will debase herself in the john with two guys not of this group.
the guy at the top right is the boyfriend oblivious that his girlfriend is getting serially abused by some guys no one knows.
the guy at the bottom right spends the whole party secretively trying to recriut helpers to go destroy humvees at a dealers lot in the name of alf, which he has cunfused with elf the earth liberation front group.
I could go on about the rest but, you get the picture.
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Good lord, I’m not sure that bunch could collectively raise a room temperature IQ.
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I look at the top left moron and can only hear the police photog saying, “Smile. You don’t want to look stupid, do you?”
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Holy Shit! The top right moron is John-boy Walton’s little bro! What’s America coming to? I thought they were conservatives!
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 pm
hey, whats my brother doing up there!
October 4th, 2009 at 12:55 am
That bunch looks like they’ve not seen a shower or a bar of soap in months. That dude center bottom looks like Dwayne Wayne on acid.
October 4th, 2009 at 2:20 am
I firmly believe that #2 & #6 are twins. However, I cannot determine their sex, nor do I recommend that anyone else try to. #1 & #5 look as though they want to be the Bobsey twins. #3 looks like he really needs a cheeseburger & a stay in rehab…I don’t think he knew where he was at any point that day.
October 4th, 2009 at 2:21 am
I’ll see your high praise and raise you a cartoon.
October 4th, 2009 at 5:14 am
Actually Hitler did not bring the Olympics to Germany, the IOC made the decision before Hitler became Chancelor.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Weather Underground: The Next Generation
October 4th, 2009 at 9:24 am
A nastier bunch of reich-wing, racist, neocons I’ve never seen.
October 4th, 2009 at 10:53 am
#32 – So, Peter, what you’re saying is that we STILL haven’t found a difference between Obama & Hitler?
October 4th, 2009 at 11:48 am
What group of fine looking hippies who need a good hippie punching.
October 4th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Come on, Harvey, have some compaaaasion,,,,you just don’t understand why they were protesting that night,,,
#1…promised the role of Loyd in “Dumb and Dumber 3″, but Hollywood canceled production after discovering the script was a documentary about the hiring process of Obama’s czars.
#2…still angry over the conspiracy of the CIA murdering Curt Cobain.
#3…went online for another 16 hour stint of “World of Warcraft”, but discovered the rest of his friends weren’t online because they actually had lives.
#4…angry because her appearance on the cover of “Crack Whore” magazine got pushed back 3 months.
#5…angry because he wasn’t able to take over Ru Paul’s slot “America’s Top Model” and SNL though all the humor ran out on the character of “Pat”.
#6…Simply just tweeked out and had nothing better to do while waiting for the delivery of his “medical marijuana”.
October 4th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
#32 I know that but sometimes the truth must be bent for the sake of a good joke.
#35 You have a point.
October 4th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Is it just me, or could the thing on the top left be a relative of Scary Evil Monkey? Hippies are proof of devolution, that some humans evolve into apes.
October 4th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Tommy the Towelhead they all look like relatives of scary evil monkey.
October 4th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
The truth is….and unbeknownst to each other….one of them is an informant for the FBI, one is an undercover agent for the ATF, one is a spy for the RNC, one of them secretly reports to the CIA, one is an undercover member of the Chicago Police Department. On the other hand the guy on the upper left hasn’t got a clue as to what the f**k is going on.
October 4th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I’m 99.9999% sure they’re Obama supporters, it’s just since the memo that they can’t protest the war anymore, they just HAD to protest something.
October 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
A group affiliated with an anti-Olympics group attempted to damage a 2016 Olympic Banner that was being placed on the Daley Center’s Picasso statue…….
Who knew there were actually anti-Olympics groups, they must get mighty bored for the years in between.
Imagine what the murder capital of the world will be like in 2016….O_O
something tells me that was the real reason…besides racism of course.
October 4th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
what a fine young man
Jeremy Hammond, also known as xec96, was born in 1985 and is a Chicago, Illinois political activist, anarchist, freegan and convicted felon who has been involved in anti-war and anti-globalization causes as well as digital rights and free software movements.
In addition to helping organize and participating in dozens of anti-war and anti-capitalist actions…
Yup, he’s an Obama supporter
October 4th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Top left is a fun-loving Keebler elf who landed on the wrong side of the tracks, top middle is a cheap “Weird” Al Yankovic impersonator, top right is an alien scout who’s about to be fired for being unable to find “intelligent life”, bottom left is about to be hired to replace Maureen Dowd, bottom middle wasn’t sure whether to be the offended lesbian or the offended black guy so he decided to split the difference, and bottom right is a very, very, very cheap “Weird” Al Yankovic impersonator.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
There but for the grace of God go I.
October 4th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Me too 4 of 7 me too!
October 4th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
LOL – the new campaign motto. Obama – almost like Hitler but without the good parts.
October 4th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Eh…are you referring to those cool 14 cylinder black Mercedes limo’s with not one but two rear axels, the tailored uniforms, and that spiffy little moustache?
October 5th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Obama still plans to carry on with his plans for Air Force enhanced urban renewal and for Dr. Mengele Jr. run health care. With his Maginot Line inspired national security policy firmly in place all that’s left to do is continue the Conservocaust of the opposition.
To his credit, Frank is still fighting the Hobocaust legislation proposed by a dyslexic Muslim jihadist cleric in Hoboken NJ.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Is it just me, or is the guy on the top left a dead ringer for FrankJ?