Fighting Bob Fest

The Leftists continue to disgrace themselves.

Are these people adults? They act like little brats run amok.

On Saturday, the best of the Left was on full display at Fighting Bob Fest.

This year's theme was "Class War: Fight Back." It was the tenth Bob Fest.

Fighting Bob Fest 10

To: Fighting Bob Fest Veterans

When we started planning the first Fighting Bob Fest ten years ago, few would have bet the ranch that ten years later we would be preparing for the best yet! Battles come and go, but Bob Fest remains focused and ready. Over 60,000 have attended at least one Fighting bob Fest, and some of you have participated in all nine! Most have been to more than one-- so let's make this the best one yet!Here we are. Senator Bernie Sanders, Jim Hightower, Dave Zweifel, John Nichols, Thom Hartmann, Ellen Bravo, Dennis Kucinich (is we can work out some travel plans) Senator Tom Harkin, Tammy Baldwin, Stan Gruszynski, Barbara Lawton, and more.

We are very excited to focus on "class war" in America. It's a war some say we have lost, but that attitude will not prevail at Bob Fest. Sorry, but we can't take a break-- we have kids to protect, grandchildren to help, and a planet to save. With the leading voices coming together to adopt a winning strategy-- we need your help, your enthusiasm, and your commitment to take on that war.

We have moved from Baraboo to the Coliseum at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison-- no rain, more students, more minorities. We are also one week later than usual, on September 17th.

As usual we are helped greatly by the Capital Times, speakers who inspire us but never charge a fee, and wonderful volunteers who make it all happen...

We need your help too. As usual, no entry fee is required-- a ten year tradition-- but we need your financial help. Pre-register today and make a donation. Remember the old depression song, "Brother can you spare a dime?" Well, can you send us twenty or thirty?

See you September 17th!

Our Best,

Ed Garvey

Here's a report on the event, from the Wisconsin State Journal:

Unbowed by defeat at the polls and shaken but not swayed by curbs on collective bargaining rights and other principles they hold dear, Wisconsin progressives Saturday vowed to retrench, regroup and fight back — because the people of the state side with them, they said.

"We are down right now," said Mahlon Mitchen, a Madison firefighter and fire- fighters union president.

"We didn't start this fight," he added. "But if they want a fight, we will bring it to them. I guarantee you we'll prevail."

"This has been a tough year, in Wisconsin and in the country," echoed state Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, in his remarks to the crowd of several thousand at the 10th annual Fighting Bob Fest. "But not all is bleak. The people are with us. Too many are hurting."

The daylong festival, moved this year from outdoors in Baraboo to inside at the Dane County Coliseum, was started in 2002 by a small group of activists who stopped a proposed bottled water plant in central Wisconsin.

The festival's themes since then have broadened from environmental concerns to other ills that progressives see as threatening representative democracy. Targets include what they say is corporate over-influence, lack of universal health care, excessive money in politics and the destruction of social safety nets for the poor and middle class.

Typical fringe Leftist stuff.

And here's a typical, offensive comment from a fringe Leftist, journalist Greg Palast:

"Oh, God, this is Wisconsin. This is the place where you had some guy pour a beer on the head of a Republican State Senator? No, no, no, that's all wrong. You can't do that. That's just wrong. I'm from New York. If you are going to pour beer on a Republican, you have to drink it first."

Video, from Breitbart:



Palast was a bit confused about the victim of the attack by activist Miles Kristan, the guy in the pink dress. It wasn't a state senator. The assault was on Republican State Representative Robin Vos.

Naturally, the Bob Fest Leftists loved Palast's crass remark.

New tone? Civility?

What a joke!