The Horrors! Peaceable Assembly!

Jesse at Pandagon says about all that's needed to be said over Roger Simon's comments here:

They are floating the idea of changing the venue of [Barack Obama's] acceptance speech from Denver’s Pepsi Center to the much larger outdoor Invesco Field. I’m not going to indulge in the obvious comparisons. But I am disturbed by this development. 76,000 people blindly screaming “Yes, we can!” in a giant stadium is not an image I relish seeing in a free society.

There's something fun about saying you will not indulge in the obvious comparisons followed by indulging in them. But as Jesse says, that field is not used solely for Leni Reifenstahl film re-enactments and re-education camps. 75,000-plus people show up to cheer mindlessly hundreds of times every fall weekend. They call it "football." And I'll be damn happier when 75,000 people come together in support of taking steps to provide more affordable health care or ending the war in Iraq rather than cheering a play-action fake and fly route for a touchdown.

Note to conservatives - fascism does not equal "popular".