For the record, I don't consider mindless yelling or chanting to be an effective form of political communication either (not that this is a majority of the activities, nor is it "un-American.) But for eight years leftist "yahoos" were shouting down Republican speakers at every opportunity, including actually invading Congressional procedures. If anyone here ever spoke out against these actions, and I just don't recall it, my apologies.

What I do recall is a lot of variations on these activities being labeled "the highest form of patriotism."

I guess what mostly ticks me off is that things that were being done all that time against Republicans and conservatives have suddenly become "wrong."

The weirdest recent example was a poster showing Obama made up as the Heath Ledger "Joker." After years of pictures showing the most grotesque possible images of the administration, suddenly this was labeled as "disrespectful of the office of the President," even by publications like the L. A. Daily, which had actually posted such pictures of Bush on its cover.