"This fringe group of radicals is using tactics to shut out debate on the healthcare bill. Their main focus is to garner media attention for themselves"
Posted on 08/04/2009 3:59:34 PM PDT by Talkradio03
Video starting to come in, word is that this one is off the charts, 2 videos here from the Fox11 and ABC news affiliate in Wisconsin...
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I am at work and cannot view video....is this the guy from Green Bay, Wis??
Bump and PING
The dems are going home to hear from the public, then when the public disagrees with Dear Leader Pelosi, the dems decide the people who showed up don’t count.
Nice scam.
Report says hundreds were turned away.
Yes. Haven't seen video, but have been hearing it on the radio, (I'm in Milwaukee area). They 'bout went Medieval on him. I am sure that 100 years ago there would have been the smell of hot tar in the air.
They’re calling it Astro Turf.
the guy in the first video is far from “manufactured anger”..that there is real anger...
White House says the opposition is “manufactured” by “a leader... who was convicted of fraud.”
They will repeat that lie often, I suspect.
The RNC is not capable of astroturfing; far to incompetent and spineless.
Bump for later
Members of Congress, you may ignore these protestors, but you ignore them at your political peril. Mark these words, your political career is over if you ignore them.
"This fringe group of radicals is using tactics to shut out debate on the healthcare bill. Their main focus is to garner media attention for themselves"
Like that should matter being Barry has a couple “convicted” people acting as Czars..........
More White House, Dems, and libtard media pot calling kettle black episodes.
When you’re outnumbered by a “fringe group of radicals” doesn’t that mean you’re out of the mainstream?
Astro Turf
Grass roots:
The always well-funded, left wing, "protests" are well-financed productions with professionally done signage. The grass roots protests always show a variety of signs, and few if any are professionally produced.
The libtard media is sealing it won fate and is too caught up in being buried up Barry’s arse to realize it.
Please, please let them keep downplaying these people, whether organized or not, attending these town halls. The anger will only build and for me, I am looking forward to when it explodes.
Oh, it didn’t stop there folks. The libtard stepped foot on my home turf this morning....
(Appleton ComPost/CrapScent):
APPLETON — A hostile but orderly crowd packed the Thompson Community Center Tuesday morning, peppering U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen with questions about the health care bill, sometimes drowning out his answers with groans.
“I don’t know if he’s completely truthful,” said Sue Schini, an Appleton resident who arrived a half-hour before the event to ensure herself a seat at the center’s auditorium, which seats about 300.
An estimated 200 people stood outside the center after an Appleton fire marshal determined the room was at capacity, said Appleton police Lt. Steve Elliott, one of several officers providing crowd control.
The Appleton event was the second of two forums Kagen’s staff scheduled to explain the legislation and get public feedback. Monday’s forum in Green Bay also required police presence. Angry protesters chanted and shouted at Kagen.
Participants at the Appleton event said some of their anger is stoked from fear of what reform entails and what that will mean for taxpayers. Some also are frustrated by the number of costly financial bailouts and stimulus packages Congress and President Barack Obama have approved.
“I resent this current administration’s agenda, to turn this country into the United Socialist States of America,” said Bill Recker, an Appleton resident and business owner.
“I resent the bailout money that’s been spent, the money that’s been pissed away, and no accountability for it.”
Recker questioned the bill’s constitutionality, saying it “borders on tyranny.”
Kagen said it is understandable that people have a lot of fear and angst.
“There is fear of the unknown. Change is always very difficult,” he said. “But quite frankly we can’t afford not to change our health care system and to do it in a way that improves our economy and doesn’t damage it. I think it’s possible to do.”
Chuck Schmidt, an Appleton resident and an Outagamie County Board supervisor who stood outside the forum, said people he has talked to say they’re concerned the plan will give the government too much control over people’s lives.
No, there is fear of the known.
More entertaining video. Great.
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