Glenn Beck's '9-12' Logo based on Communist and Socialist designs


	Glenn Beck's '9-12' Logo based on Communist and Socialist designs

BobbyRutan

9-14-2009 11:25 AM

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Turnout for the 9-12 Project's Saturday march on Washington was a bust; 30,000 protesters signed up in advance (MSNBC reporter David Shuster tweeted that D.C. park police called that figure "generous"). But even if three times that many actually showed up, the number would fall far short of the hundreds of thousands (and even millions) claimed to be planning to attend. Even in that reduced crowd, however, surely someone recognized how odd the right-wing gathering's left-wing logo was.

Maybe Beck will explain. Sort of.

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9-14-2009 5:00 PM

ratilfar

Ooops!

9-16-2009 10:50 PM

zizzy

How dare he, that Commie-Pinko-Socialist.

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