A peaceful presentation by Newsfromdoswell blogger Dale Brumfield was interrupted by technical difficulties instigated, no doubt, by tea party activists bent on stopping his talk.
"I worked for the better part of an afternoon on this Powerpoint," claims Brumfield as he beat and banged the remote on a guest's head to advance to the next slide. "Then those dang tea partiers got hold of it and ruined it!"
Brumfield had planned to talk about his book, "Three Buck Naked Commodes: and 18 More Tales from a Small Town" and show even more pictures from his uneventful childhood, but he found quickly that all the slides had been replaced by "Please Stand By" cards and test patterns.
Even though Brumfield's computer was not left unattended, Brumfield still clung to his tea party story, whining loudly about their atrocious and demagogic rhetoric. "I had to improvise because of them", he claimed, "Instead of showing pictures of my 6th birthday party, I had to switch to telling the history of the test pattern, which is complicated and rambling."
Guests at the talk, presented at the Augusta County Library in Fishersville, said they didn't notice the abrupt switch in subject matter. "I dozed through most of it anyway," says Stuarts Draft resident Howard Lloyd.
