Daily Kos Worried About Obamacare Protests; Claim Protesters Are Paid Agitators Or Lobbyists

NewsBusters ^ | August 4, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

It is said that the people are revolting.

You said it! They stink on ice!

That pretty much sums up the attitude of the Kossacks at the Daily Kos. However, unlike the Mel Brooks version of King Louis XVI in "History of the World: Part I," the Kossacks are fearful, deeply fearful, of the people. They are worried that the Tea Party protesters who show up at the town hall meetings conducted by members of Congress might derail Obamacare due to the large turnouts and vehemence of their protests as you can see in this thread posted by Kossack icebergslim:

Sure, it is a bunch of nuts or really UNINFORMED constituents who are buying into the argument of the NON-ARGUMENT of the Republican Party for health care reform.

The Obama White House needs to get out of the bubble and get real here. We all know that the lobbyists and insurance companies are ARMED TO THE NINES to defeat any health care reform, UNLESS THEY WRITE IT. Since they can not WRITE IT, they will destroy it. Simple as that.

Why is this dangerous?

These folks are ON TELEVISION, getting eyeballs, and making traction. Worried yet? Sure, it may be just a few, but a few can rollerball into many. The Democrats have not sold the health care reform argument because there is no f---ing bill by them. Are we shooting the bullets into our feet yet?

[PJ-Comix]

The people are revolting! And that has the KOmmies worried.

[a fool in paradise]

A conspiracy theory about fraud.

The Healthers need to be ridiculed in the media. They make the Democrat party look stupid.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[Marty62]

what do you mean look stupid.
....................
They are called DUMS for a reason.

[ottbmare]

. . . Claim Protesters Are Paid Agitators

WHAT? We're PAID agitators? Hold on--if we're paid agitators, where's my check? So far nobody has paid me! ;-)

[Christian4Bush]

“Pot meet kettle” bump

[joinedafterattack]

KKKosters are so entertaining. These guys have no grasp of reality and live in a fantasy world.

[freeangel]

“protestors are paid”

They must be mixing up those who can think and reason for themselves with the ACORN people who are bussed in to harrass people.

[Mount Athos]

Worried yet? Sure, it may be just a few, but a few can rollerball into many.

I can understand why they are afraid of rollerball.

[dfwgator]

Methinks the KOS Kids are projecting.

[PLD]

Obama being booed in Ok..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSzYBnahgkU

[Dallas59]

I got my check from BushCheneyHaliburtonPalin last year and one from the KATRINA project. Didn’t get one from the 9/11 exercise.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“The Healthers need to be ridiculed in the media. They make the Democrat party look stupid.”

As if the Dems need any help in this regard...

[savedbygrace]

ARMED TO THE NINES

I'm familiar with the long used phrases, "dressed to the nines" and "armed to the teeth", but what does "armed to the nines" mean?

LOL at icebergslim.

[FormerACLUmember]

"Protesters Are Paid Agitators Or Lobbyists"

That is the definition of ACORN... paid with your tax dollars.

[a fool in paradise]

I didn’t get my check yet. Karl Rove must’ve been busy with his weather making machine again yesterday causing earthquakes.

[reagan_fanatic]

The Kommies just can't wrap their stunted little minds around the fact that this is a genuine anger brought on as a direct result of Obama’s disastrous policies.

We don't need to be paid or hired - we're more than happy to do it to show that there are still people left in this country who love it and are willing to stand up for it.

[a fool in paradise]

The Left can’t believe that American born taxpayers are “down with the struggle”.

We are bitter and cling to their earnings.

[PowderMonkey]

Outside agitators? Where have we heard this before? Shame on the Daily Kos. Someone needs to send them a copy of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."


Charlton Heston (Conservative “Outside Agitator”)
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
“…I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid. Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds…
Yours for the cause of Peace and Brotherhood, Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 16, 1963
Birmingham, Alabama

[thecabal]

In the future there will be no health care. There will only be Rollerball.

[Jim Noble]

Claim Protesters Are Paid Agitators Or Lobbyists

Actually, the correct word is wreckers.

[blueyon]

Sorry the right could not get ACORN, they were to busy.

[Dallas59]

I never got paid for those.

[a fool in paradise]

Remember when Michael Moore tried to show Charlton Heston as a “racist”?

[alarm rider]

I sense some flop sweat and fear with the Kos Kiddies. It’s very amusing.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Typical Daily Kos member:

1) 20 something Trust fund baby
2) Stuck in the 60’s aging hippy
3) 7th year male college student majoring in Woman’s Studies
4) Late teen who rotates between posting on Daily Kos and a bong Hit
5) Angry and bitter female whose last date was with the cucumber in her fridge
6) Humanists and Liberation Theology adherers who blast Christianity at every chance
7) Lexus driving Marxists with a Malibu beach front house

[Marty62]

It is amazing that the President has the EXACT same mental capacity.

[MEGoody]

Because the left uses paid protestors, they’re projecting. They can’t believe that regular, everyday citizens would be against socialized health care.

[maggief]

Wrong! It's likely the SUPPORTERS are paid or lobbyists.

[JFC]

What the heck??? They have their union thugs who attend all town hall meetings and plants that go to Obama Rallies to try to up his stupity remarks. Acorn... All are being seen by us Conservative for what they are and we will NOT STAND FOR THEM TO TAKE DOWN OUR COUNTRY. I am seeing landslide in 2012!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think Obama made a mistake here. The typical fascist thing to do was that he should have ordered Ernst Rahm to send out his ACORN brownshirts to harass and attack those who protested against Obamacare.

Thugs don’t care if they punch out some grandmother to get her to shut up. However, it does take some planning, or the ACORN thugs would end up hanging from light poles.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Really, Kossacks? Prove it. Go ahead. We’ll wait.

[Buckeye McFrog]

in the spirit of Pete Seeger and The Weavers....

“It takes a worried man,
to sing a worried song.....”

[Aria]

Oh, because I don’t want my supposedly representative government telling me that they now own my future and it’s time to get off the planet then I’m a lobbyist or a paid agitator?

For Whom The Bell Tolls, Kos. It will toll for thee.

[metmom]

WHAT? We're PAID agitators? Hold on--if we're paid agitators, where's my check? So far nobody has paid me! ;-)

Hey, speaking of getting paid, where's that stimulus check or tax break check I was supposed to be getting in the mail?

Whatever happened with that? I heard that some people started getting theirs, then nothing.......

[metmom]

LOVE IT.

[Aria]

Hey, speaking of getting paid, where's that stimulus check or tax break check I was supposed to be getting in the mail?

That's a very good question....I never got a check either. Got one from Bush but that was it.

[metmom]

You don’t suppose it’s tied to your party registration, now do you?

[wbill]

“armed to the nines” = when your shoulder holster matches your belt and shoes.

[panthermom]

You mean you can actually get paid to protest Obama??? Who knew? I have 4 really good friends who are out of work, where do they go to get a job protesting? I wonder if they pay cash under the table? Gee, I’m gonna have to go to the KOS website and find out what crazy right-wing groups are hiring!

[Aria]

No because I was one of the crossovers who tried to screw with the rat primary so I’m officially a rat - geez....I feel dirty saying that. Need to get it changed.

I live on the west coast and our primary was a done deal.

[PLD]

This stuff is happening all over the country, but you are not being told of it..He is being booed at town hall meeting and you don’t see that either.He just keeps on like nothing is happening..He has to be stopped..Even his own people are beginning to see what a false person he is..

[savedbygrace]

Bwahahahahahaha!

[Drango]

PAID? How come I never get that memo?

[FreepShop1]

Rachel Maddow said the entire crowd at the Bishop town hall way out on Long Island was planned and organized by Washington lobbyists.

So she thinks the 85 year old veteran who took issue with Bishop's praise of the VA health system was a paid plant???

[metmom]

I’ve considered that as well since I live in NYS, rat heaven (or hell, depending on your POV)

[Aria]

He doesn’t care what we think. He’s out to give reparations through health care to his black friends....to pay for “previous wrongs”. Well, I was reading about what was done to the Irish - in some cases they got worse treatment. And how about hispanics.....and Chinese. Zero has a real selective view of history.

[papasmurf]

Sorry, KOS-KIDDIES, ACORN is paid by YOUR side.

BTW, why is it that you left wing anti-American goons are always led by a foreigner like Kos, Huffbiatch, and 0bama???

[chris_bdba]

Uninformed? I bet there are more of us who have READ the house bill than there are those on their side spouting lies about how great it is?

[chris_bdba]

I sure hope these Ko’s kooks show up and face those of us who are real Ameericans. Bet they wet themselves and run back to Mommies basement!