Shameless: Tea Party Tries To Hijack Protesting Vets, Who Are Now Some Pissed

Bizarre political theater this weekend in D.C., where about a thousand people rallied to protest the shutdown of veterans' memorials - an event shamelessly, photogenetically hijacked by Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin, neither of whom are veterans and both of whom supported (and in Cruz' case largely orchestrated) the shutdown they were now protesting. The event featured prayers, guns, a giant Confederate flag and calls for scary black guy Obama to “put down the Quran" and "come out with your hands up" because, really, nothing says democracy like armed racist idiocy. Happily, veterans who organized the march were having none of it. They issued a statement blasting those who would "seek to hijack the narrative for political gain," thus disproving Mencken, for now, on just how much hypocrisy will stand.

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