Harry Taylor: American Hero

[baldguy]

Give 'em Hell Harry!

...

"While I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right to tap my telephone, to arrest me and hold me without charges, to try to preclude me from breathing clean air and drinking clean water and eating safe food. If I were a woman, you'd like to restrict my opportunity to make a choice ... about whether I can abort a pregnancy ... What I wanted to say to you is that--in my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more frightened, by my leadership in Washington, including the presidency. And I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of youself ... I also want to say I really appreciate the courtesy of allowing me to speak ... That is part of what this country is about."
...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060407/cm_thenation/1575510_1

[ClassWarrior]

1. I love the expression of the woman sitting next to him.

:o

NGU.

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. What about

the sourfaced bitch to her left? Guess we know what she's thinking.

fsc

[katinmn]

15. It's priceless! Maybe it's his wife.

:rofl:

Ooooooooo! Did he really say that? Ooooooooo!

[pacalo]

20. "Ewwwwww...you're gonna get it now!"

[Radio_Lady]

40. Oh! I just noticed her expression! Fantastic!

Someone should try to find out who SHE is!

Just supposin' --

I've been out of commission most of the week with hand surgery. I just saw the exchange on the Internet.

Fingers are flying tonight!

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[pacalo]

43. And what is the girl to the left of her thinking?

'That doesn't sound like anything I've heard on Rush or Hannity!' She looks lost as a goose listening to all those non-Republican talking points.

[Radio_Lady]

60. Hey! What happened to all the avatars with "GIVE 'EM HELL HARRY!"

Y'know, when Harry Reid was givin' 'em hell?

Let's dust those suckers off for this guy!

[jarnocan]

2. cool !!!

thanks from a fellow NCian!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. Isn't he something?

At first, I thought he was a ringer, planted in the audience to give the impression that Fuckface is open to all kinds of folks.

But then I realized he was on the level.

And Fuckface smirked and made faces and wisecracks the whole time this gentleman was speaking. I really wanted to slap him.

Actually, I wanted to take a machete to his face, but that's just me.

What a marvelous thing he did, this American man, Harry Taylor - and the saddest part of it all is that we now consider that sort of thing extraordinary.

It should be normal, routine, usual.

[madokie]

7. I wonder how the repukes were when clinton gave a speech

were there anyone needing to or was asking him question like this, curious mind

[OldLeftieLawyer]

9. Hell, no

Clinton was SO good on his feet, and LOVED interacting with audience members, anyone who asked him a question got a brilliant, coherent, respectful, and illuminating response.

This little fucker smirks.

He really needs beating.

[Ron Green]

11. Do you mean "He really needs beating," or

"He really needs a beating?"

[OldLeftieLawyer]

16. I live in the South,

although I'm a born Northerner.

I'm Italian-American, too.

If he needed ONE beating, I'd probably have said "He needs a beating."

But, given the Southern idiom that creeps into my language, and the plain fact that Fuckface needs to be beaten for the rest of eternity, I'd say I wrote what I thought.

As I said, I'm Italian.

[TomInTib]

17. Tell it, OLL!

[pacalo]

21. I want to give him a good kick in the pants.

[babylonsister]

38. His speaking his mind was extraordinary, OLL, because it's all

too rare, and that's just sad.

[pnorman]

51. Fuckface (aka: "Little Lord Pissypants")

could play Gracious Lady that time. He had his usual hand-picked audience. But that plain-spoken but eloquent query must have secretly RANKLED, for a long time after. A discussion of Harry Taylor on another DU thread, revealed that he was a respectable businessman, rather than a "damn long-haired hippy".

pnorman

[bigwillq]

4. HOORAY for Harry!

:bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

6. I thought it was so great what he did!

The folks around him seem to have different thoughts about it, based on their reactions. The woman right next to him looks shocked, the woman next to her has an "If looks could kill" expression on her face. The interesting one to me, though, is the woman sitting above those two women. She has her hand over her mouth, saying something to the person next to her. I can't be sure of course, but it seems almost like she having a positive reaction to Mr. Taylor.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Randi Rhodes' site compared this to Norman Rockwell's classic

"Freedom of Speech". Amazingly similar.

[helderheid]

27. it's downright uncanny!

[HeeBGBz]

30. LIke a glimpse to the future

That's really strange.

[Cronus Protagonist]

32. Here's a photoshop job for a closer comparison

http://bushspeaks.com/home.asp?did=217

[BrklynLiberal]

44. cool!!!

[Radio_Lady]

46. EX-cellent! You guys are fantastic with your Photoshop skills!

Hope you don't get in trouble with the Rockwell folks.

I'd check with their museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts before putting this to any commercial use.

http://www.nrm.org

http://www.nrm.org/index.php?page=48

[Cronus Protagonist]

47. Thanks

As for commercial use, this one's mine, and I give it out freely :)

[Radio_Lady]

53. So as long as you don't charge for the changed image, you can

do what you want with it?

I'm just askin' -- I have no one who is an attorney to refer this to.

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[Cronus Protagonist]

56. Even if I did charge, I've done this before many times

Once the image is modified to be satirical, it belongs to the satirist. I can sell McMerde buttons, for example, even although it uses the McD logo in a modified form because the intent of the creation is altered to be satirical.

Anyway, as you noted, in this case the question is moot sinece I'm giving it away :)

[Radio_Lady]

57. Got it. Here's an interesting web site you might like to read:

From: http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00

The End of Illustration?

by Steve Heller


Norman Rockwell idealized America through his covers for the Saturday Evening Post and America idolized him as the people's artist. Illustration was the people's art. Today, however, painted and drawn illustration–narrative and conceptual–is, in the words of one skeptical design magazine editor, "unnecessary in an era of digital media." So is the illustration discipline really marginalized? Or to paraphrase Charles Dickens: Is this the real skinny or the skinny that might be?

Digital media, and specifically the PhotoShop extension, has had a profound influence on the way that art directors and designers currently view illustration. Once graphic designers depended on the rendering skills and conceptual acuity of illustrators. Now they can assemble ersatz illustration-collages by themselves. PhotoShop has certainly not replaced illustrators altogether (and many fine illustrators employ PhotoShop as a tool), but this tool is far more threatening than any previous technological development in the history of illustration.

Here are some reasons why:

1. Prior to PhotoShop, collage and montage were alternatives to painting and drawing, either as a direct link to fine art, or as an option for mediocre painters or drawers. Some graphic designers occasionally used their own collage and montage to bypass illustrators altogether; currently with PhotoShop this is a common practice.

2. Prior to PhotoShop art directors and designers worked in concert with illustrators on the content of illustration, but were reluctant to interfere in the image-making process itself. Today, direct intervention through PhotoShop, such as digitally changing components of an artwork without the artist's permission, is on the rise.

3. Before digital methods, art directors and designers were hesitant to rely on stock art as a means to illustrate articles or advertisements. Yet with more efficient digital platforms and websites, stock art has become an accessible, inexpensive and hassle-free alternative to commissioning original illustration (it also bypasses troublesome illustrators).

MORE AT LINK ABOVE --->


I appreciate your explanation. Thanks.

[Blue_Tires]

48. brilliant scene!!

[Bozita]

49. amazing and prescient of Mr. Rockwell

[eppur_se_muova]

55. Not prescient--reflecting American ideals, set down in our Constitution.

That's how things were in the past, when Norman Rockwell painted. We can hope it will be that way in the future, and strive to make it true. But we are in grave danger of losing that freedom in the present.

[GreenInNC]

10. My friend

Harry is a real estate broker here in Charlotte and a leader of our local MoveOn team.

[ClassWarrior]

12. Thank him for all of us please?

Peace to you and Harry.

Never Give Up.

[Is It Only Me]

13. He sounded very nervous

I knew he wasn't a plant. He sounded very nervous, but he got out what he had to say. I admired his courage. You're fortunate to call him a friend.

I live here in Charlotte too and I might need to join up with MoveOn just so I can say I shook Harry's hand. He's a true patriot.

[GreenInNC]

19. Our MoveOn Group

Our next meeting is in a couple of weeks: http://www.the-freedom-group.org/

[katinmn]

22. Great cooperative site, and it lists all the media coverage!

I missed it live since I just got back in town.

[hippywife]

25. The first thing I thought of was

the quote:

"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." Maggie Kuhn

Someone should give him a t-shirt that says that in appreciation for his action.

[Olney Blue]

36. Welcome to DU, Is It Only Me!

:hi:

[newyawker99]

54. Hi Is It Only Me!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[katinmn]

14. Well, when you see him again, tell him thanks from Minnesota!

I signed a site someone set up called thankyouharry.com or something. Don't have the link handy but there were many thousands of sigs.

[Pastiche423]

45. Where in Charlotte did this take place?

Was it downtown? I'd like to know how close * was to my birthplace (Mercy Hospital).

Thank you, Harry!

[katinmn]

18. Thank you Harry Taylor site slashdotted

http://thankyouharrytaylor.org/index.php
This site went up this morning. After only 8 hours, we had received thousands of thank yous. Due to this amazing response, we've had to upgrade our software to handle the load. Please bear with us.

[Radio_Lady]

59. Tonight, the link is gone. Harry, I hope you get more than only

your 15 minutes of fame.

But over a weekend, who knows? All the network anchors are off relaxing, and they'll cover who know what tomorrow (Sunday)?

[Radio_Lady]

61. Give 'em hell, Harry Taylor... and thank you SO much!

Perhaps you missed the story over the weekend. Harry Taylor, a 61-year-old commercial realtor from North Carolina, stood up at an open event and expressed his feelings directly to President Bush last week. We all felt wonderful that SOMEBODY finally had the guts to do this. When I saw the clip of this, I identified with Harry's message -- it's the feelings expressed daily on the Internet by progressives and liberals everywhere.

Using PhotoShop techniques, one of our DU members "morphed" Harry's face on to Norman Rockwell's famous painting entitled "Freedom of Speech." More than 9,000 people have also thanked him at the website www.thankyouharrytaylor.org The counter says that 54,000 have visited the site itself.

Here's what I said:

#9273

April 9th, 2006 at 11:08 pm

Harry,

Give ‘em hell! It’s particularly true now — you have articulated what we have been thinking since the sElection of the pResident. I am proud of you and wish I could give you a huge hug.

Are you just an anonymous person? Do you prefer to remain that way? Can we find out who you are? Can you make contact with the Democratic Underground at www.democraticunderground.com

Please continue to give a voice to your views. Call in to Air America Radio and contact the news outlets this week. There are thousands who would be very happy to hear your opinions on what’s happening to our country.

Make worldwide peace a priority in 2006!

[MadJohnShaft]

23. Bush was so disrespectful - even for him

[NJCher]

24. bush body language

Bush's body language in response to Harry Taylor:

He walks away. He takes a drink of water. He covers his eyes. Everything in the body language says "I don't want to listen" and "you hit me hard."

Very interesting Freudian slip: "Let "her" speak." Wow. That says volumes.



After this, while trying to come up with something to say, he goes into various facial gee gawing, stretching his face, moving his jaw, etc. What a goof.

He laughs when told to have the grace to be ashamed of himself. This really tells how much contempt he has for the principles of our democracy.

He totally stumbles in response. He is stunned and can say nothing for a time.

Finally he starts with "tap your phones." There is no one stopping him from anything he says yet he states, "Let me finish." Peculiar, but we've seen this before.

Then he says "I'm not going to apologize for what I did."

FWIW, I teach nonverbal communication at the college level. A customary warning about nonverbal communication is that it can be ambiguous and it is highly context dependent.




Cher

[Freedom_from_Chains]

26. The main thing I noticed about his response

was that he interjected a lot of small talk which people will sometimes do to give them an opportunity to come up with a plausible answer. It's a time buying technique.

[Olney Blue]

35. Great summary. Thanks.

His body language is as inarticulate as his speech!

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

31. How about that "can you believe this guy?" smirk * was giving everyone?

That's what got me.

Mr. Taylor had nerves of steel to do that, especially in a hostile crowd. Very impressive.

QDM

[rocktivity]

28. Where is Harry Taylor's appearances on Oprah, Today, Tonight, Letterman?

Where is his signature fragrance, clothing line, Daily Show/Colbert ineterview? Where is his reality show?

:shrug:
rocknation

[Olney Blue]

37. Hey man, give him a couple days!

:P

[rocktivity]

41. That's (.)(.) to you!

:rofl:
rocknation

[Radio_Lady]

58. Oh, my God. Those are my BREASTS! I'd recognize them anywhere!

(.) (.)

Come to think of it... more like this... low slung.

( ) ( )
(.) (.)

[New Government]

29. That Took Guts! ......Way to go Harry!!

To look down at the President of the United States and tell him off takes GUTS. Harry Taylor obviously has plenty. Way to go Harry! A hero to those of us who covet free speech!!!!! Not to mention that everything he said was 100% accurate.

[NJCher]

34. welcome to DU, New Government

:toast:

I agree; Harry has a phenomenal presence.

I found the expressions on some of the faces in the audience and the reaction to what Harry said be quite a surprise. Many applauded bush. How can anyone support this lying serial murderer of hundreds of thousands of people? How can they not see him for what he is?

He was so cocky. How could these people not see the sincerity and quiet composure of Harry in contrast?

I can only conclude they are simple souls, deluded and overwhelmed by the office, not the person.




Cher

[The Witch]

33. k&r, least I can do to atone for my suspicions earlier & thank this man

for being ... despite bad bad witches saying otherwise ... a true american hero.

[babylonsister]

39. Pls. don't beat yourself up, The Witch.

Gawd knows we've all written things on DU we wish we could take back; I know I have.:hug:

[Radio_Lady]

62. Me, too. I insinuated that someone was ---

a troll once. Luckily, the mods deleted my post. I was really all wet and I apologized. I was just out of my mind mad about... something.

[marions ghost]

42. for Harry

:loveya: :patriot: :loveya:

[pnorman]

50. On a similar thread on DU yeterday,

Someone else had pointed out the striking similarity of the above shot, to this Norman Rockwell print
:

pnorman

[Elnendil Taramon]

52. Another idea?

Make a shirt saying "Harry Kicks Ass" and put the topic's main picture on it: