Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Quick thought for Conservatives…

September 26, 2018November 14, 2011 Skip

From the BlogCon11 vs Occupy Denver post: And they can’t take it. They’ve never had to defend their views against people who think they’re stupid. They simply don’t know how. The Occupy movement is performance art, not political science. It is an information operation, not an authentic, organic expression of beliefs. They have not earned … Read more

GrokTV Event: Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC Presidential Debate – “Press Avails”:Newt Gingrich & Rick Santorum

September 26, 2018November 13, 2011 Skip

The usual practice in politics is that after a speech, politicians will generally make themselves available to the press (i.e., "press avails") for additional questions on either what was just said and discussed, or on an agenda being carried out by a member of that media and trying to put that politician into a bad … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Jeff Chidester & Chris Buck

September 26, 2018November 13, 2011 Skip

I PROMISE that this is the last video from Thursday’s Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC Prez debate! Both Jeff and Chris are political activists and have worked on / actively working on political campaigns. That said for full disclosure, I do consider them friends and imposed upon them after a long evening to yak for … Read more

Durn, I miss all the fun! BlogCon11 vs Occupy Denver

September 26, 2018November 13, 2011 Skip

Well, I first got notified that things were afoot from some of my Samsphere blogger buds who were attending the FreedomWorks’s BlogCon11 that some things were afoot – that the Occupy Denver folks had decided that they had the horsepower to go up against what they thought were just some run-of-the-mill paid-by-the-Kochs bloggers – as in "hey, the Old Media seems to have succumbed to their <insert appropriate words here> and these bloggers can’t be better than, say, the NYT, the LAT, or ABC/CBS/NBC and the like, right? What they didn’t understand is that 1) The Koch Brothers don’t fund FreedomWorks and 2) they were the quintessential 98 LBers going up against SEALs in this war of ideas and political philosophy (or as Stacy McCain called them "the charge of the Intellectual Lightweight Brigade"). I know many of the bloggers there personally – the bloggers were licking their chops (silly Occupiers- these bloggers LIVE on the ‘Net!) at the opportunity. Did you really think that none of the 300 wouldn’t be watching your Twitter feed?? And they started to practice:

Rob and Warner are the rightmost folks – already, practicing "Occupy-eze". And Maggie reported that they had already bought the Milk Bones for their leader, Shelby! Heck, even Glen from Instapundit warned them: " There are some sections of the blogosphere I would not advise you to occupy. . . ."

So much for not listening. They did, however, try to show up early, but as the DaTechGuy notes, the bloggers were ready for them with their own recon squad out:

Sometime around 2:30 or so we noticed by sign and scent some people who looked very “occupyish” and started snapping pictures…One couple didn’t like pictures being taken the women covered her face and they ran in the Elevator, I found it very funny as they pushed button after button without knowing that the elevator needed a key card.

And once they arrived, Stephen Kruiser climbed into his Gandalf alter ego ("You shall not pass") when the Occupiers simply assumed that they would be allowed to go into the conference rooms.