What's the Big Deal about a Few Zombies?

It seems just the sight of zombies is enough to scare our paranoid conservative friends half out of their wits. 

WTDY's Sly in the Morning, the only liberal radio host in Wisconsin, took on conservative talker Vicki McKenna's complaints that the zombie protesters disrupted a Special Olympics ceremony featuring Gov. Scott Walker. Well, they didn't, but facts are never an issue from the whiny wingnut right agitator. McKenna, along with failed county executive candidate and tea partier Nancy Mistele, couldn't have been more imaginative or feign a phonier sounding indignation over the zombie protest. 

In the audio below, Sly even got a call from an agency manager of Special Olympics, who couldn't have been more outraged over the cuts Walker is making to health care funding for those Olympic participants who need help.  

If you listened to the above audio, then you'll see how off the wall bizarre the MacIver Institute's portrayal of the event really is. They're a conservative fringe think tank trying desperately to make a name for themselves. Strangely enough, the video doesn't support many of the narrators claims.

  

Here's the coverage as reported by jsonline: 

Opponents of Gov. Scott Walker were backing away from a demonstration against him held Wednesday at a Special Olympics event, even as organizers of the ceremony said the protesters did not disrupt it.

Matt Guidry, a spokesman for the United Council of University of Wisconsin Students, which organized the Vos protest, said his group did not back the demonstration. Guidry said, "That doesn't make us look that good." Guidry said the intent of the "die-in" in Vos' office was to raise awareness about legislation requiring voters to show photo IDs at the polls and … Republicans to turn down federal money for increasing Internet broadband access.

The protesters added more color to the event than trouble, and event organizers were happy with the way things turned out.

Rachel Grant, a spokeswoman for the Special Olympics, said … "We were all a little bit on edge, but it turned out for the best," Grant said. "Nothing was disruptive at all." Kelly Kloepping, another Special Olympics official, said the protesters were respectful and did not diminish the excitement the Special Olympians felt about being in Madison to meet Walker and other leaders. Kloepping said, "We knew the protesters were there, but they were respectful of our athletes."

But if you only listened to the fake outrage of the right wing media, you would have thought the protesters had to be controlled with nightsticks.

State Treasurer Kurt Schuller, a GOP official whose daughter was a Special Olympics competitor, denounced the demonstration … "To be confronted by protesters, who will never understand the personal challenges … who decided to politicize a nonpolitical event, shows a complete lack of civility when civility is something we should all be working toward.”

Guess the Olympic organizers saw it a bit differently. I wonder who was lying?