Astroturf protests: "turn the 'hand-painted' sign in at the end"

[muriel_volestrangler]

With Tazo tea bags taped to protest placards, and sacks of Lipton looped around pearl necklaces, they came by the hundreds, gathering first in front of San Francisco City Hall before marching to the Federal Building, the local home of the dread “Princess Pelosi.”
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But such reasonable sentiments didn’t fit on today’s protests signs. Many of those that did were not even those of the grassroots activists, rather their astroturf organizers. A silver-haired socialite — decked out in a pink visor and her tennis warmups — was leaving early. She pointed to her hand-painted sign — “Overtaxation is Tyranny” on one side, “No Porkulus Bills” on the other — and asked, “Anyone want to hold this? You can turn it in at the end.”

What did she mean, “turn it in,” I asked. “It’s not yours?”

She pointed to the megaphone toting organizers on the stage with a shrug and said of her prop: “They furnished it.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2009/04/15/teabagging-by-the-bay/

[spooky3]

1. Did they furnish the misspellings and random capitalization?

You know, to make it look moranish.

[GoCubsGo]

2. Tazo tea, eh?

I see they spared no expense when it came to their tea bag props. No wonder they wanted their signs back. That stuff ain't cheap.

[prolesunited]

3. Aaaah, that explains

the lack of typical spelling errors. :think:

[firedupdem]

4. They furnished all the signs for sarah campaign. Those people

didn't bring those signs.