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Dear MoveOn member, Right-wing mobs aren't just disrupting congressional town halls—their outlandish lies are now making their way into mainstream news coverage, too. We need to set the record straight. The majority of Americans support real health care reform. And no wonder, given the incredible cost of inaction. In Michigan alone, 620 people lose their coverage every day. And for those with insurance, yearly premiums will hit $22,579 in a few years if we don't act. We can't let right-wing extremists ruin the biggest opportunity in a generation to get real reform. Can you send a quick letter to the...

Patterico and Lone Star Times capture yet another banner moment from a town-hall forum hosted by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) . In this clip, Roxana Mayer introduces herself as a doctor (a general practitioner for four years) in order to support ObamaCare and Jackson-Lee in a fairly hostile crowd. For her efforts, she gets a big hug from the Congresswoman, an image which the Houston Chronicle featured prominently on their website coverage of the event. But was Mayer really a doctor? Not only was Mayer not a doctor, Roxana Mayer was an Obama delegate, as Patterico discovered with some digging....

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said today she does not know the woman who falsely claimed to be a physician when she made a statement supporting the White House's health care overhaul at the congresswoman's town hall meeting Tuesday. The woman, a University of Houston student named Roxana Mayer, is not a licensed physician, although she called herself one at the meeting and was incorrectly identified as such in Wednesday's editions of the Chronicle. In an e-mail to the Chronicle today, Mayer said she'd been advised not to talk further about the matter, but did not say who counseled her....

Plant at now infamous town hall where Sheila Jackson Lee answered her phone claimed to be a doctor... but she lied... she isn't Houston Chronicle DID zero homework. Also, falsely representing yourself as a physician may be illegal under TX law (still developing). more at link

I was reading the Chron’s piece about Sheila Jackson Lee’s town hall, when something caught my eye: One supporter, Dr. Roxana Mayer, a physician who does not live in Jackson Lee’s district, praised the reform plan for overhauling a broken system. “I don’t know what there is in the bill that creates such panic,” she said. In this video, Mayer claims to be a general practitioner, eliciting applause and even a hug from Queen Sheila: I’m not sure why, but something didn’t smell right. So my colleagues and I did a little digging, and wouldn’t you know it? Roxana Mayer...

Here is video of a man telling Neil Cavuto yesterday that a person at Democrat John Dingell's recent Town Hall Meeting in Michigan seen carrying an "Obama as Hitler" sign was also seen after the event outside handing out Dingell literature. The man said, "it appears he was part of the Dingell operation to start with." It has become a fashionable Democrat talking point this week to say the anti-ObamaCare protesters showing up at events are carrying "Swastikas" or that they are "Nazis." . . . . . (Watch Video)

Republican strategists and their media rabble-rousers cleverly thought they could dispatch their shock troops this month and kill health reform once and for all. Instead, they're on the verge of generating what they've been desperate to avoid -- an urgent, national, rational conversation on how to make the health-care system fairer and more affordable. To be sure, many details of health reform are still to be ironed out. But in the end, what is likely to emerge from this conversation is a health system that looks more like what President Obama has in mind than what Republicans have been peddling...

I attended the “Town Hall” meeting serving as a forum for Cathy Castor, our senator, to share about the Health care bill in Congress. The meeting began with a “plea” for respect so we may “listen and understand each other”, but of course, the listening had been orchestrated to be one-way: Cathy telling the people why we needed the Health care Bill, and then leaving immediately to avoid answering any questions or listening to anyone. I work only ten minutes away, so I was able to get to the meeting place almost an hour ahead of time. The people were...

As we always like to point out: There are no coincidences in Obama world. Little Julia Hall is just the latest in-the-tank questioner with Obama campaign/Democrat ties to turn up “randomly” at presidential health care forums.

Like many others I watched the "town hall" meeting in Portsmouth MA with the supposedly randomly selected audience. The second person "randomly" selected to ask a question was a young girl called Julia Hall from Malden MA (asks question at 29m:25s). Julia read the following question off a piece of paper: "As I was walking in I saw a lot of signs outside saying mean things about reforming healthcare. How do kids know what is true and why do people want a new system that can help more of us". This randomly asked question gave Obama the perfect opportunity to...

The tingle in Chris Matthews’ leg is turning into a chill up his spine. The cause? The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy which is shuttling people to Congressional Town Hall meetings, apparently by black helicopter. At first, Democrats charged that business groups were planting people they called “Brooks Brothers Brigades” because they were somehow deemed too well-dressed to attend town hall meetings. This charge didn’t fall flat so much because of its illogic, as it did because all the video coming out of the meetings showed attendees who more resembled those at a union retirees’ gathering.

Thanks to the fine folks over at AR15.com! http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=911911

You be the judge. (Click on the image to watch)You can read more about Sen. Reid attacking health care protests as being as "phony" as Astroturf at Politics Daily. No word yet if Sen. Reid will condemn any of the ralliers outside of his Clean Energy Summit. Or is it only "Astroturfing" if you disagree with Sen. Reid? If I hear anything from the Senator or his office, I'll be sure to let you know. Now you might ask, what's wrong with being organized and having signs and water at a rally? Nothing, I think that just indicates good planning....

PORTSMOUTH — Having spent four years living with England's government-run health care system, longtime Republican Dave Best says he isn't sold on President Barack Obama's plan for reform. However, he's willing to listen. Best, 57, of Bow was among the hundreds who traveled to Portsmouth High School on Monday to pick up their tickets for today's "Town Hall" forum, where Obama will pitch his plan during a visit to the Port City. Organizers are expecting large crowds both inside and outside the high school, which will play host to a national debate that has some pushing for reform and many...

We are closer to passing health care reform than we've ever been in the history of this country, and the opposition knows it. The small, lobbyist-funded right-wing is trying to scare Members of Congress and the American public away from supporting health care reform. We can't let fear win - America has been at the mercy of the insurance industry from too long. We need health care reform now, and we can't wait any longer. You can help fight back against these right-wing disrupters. Follow the steps below to attend events in your area and get trained on how to...

All throughout August, our members of Congress are back in town. Insurance companies and partisan attack groups are stirring up fear with false rumors about the President's plan, and it's extremely important that folks like you speak up now. So we've cooked up an easy, powerful way for you to make a big impression: Office Visits for Health Reform. All this week, OFA members like you will be stopping by local congressional offices to show our support for insurance reform. You can have a quick conversation with the local staff, tell your personal story, or even just drop off...

Obama distances himself from Pelosi By: Nia-Malika Henderson August 10, 2009 08:42 PM EST Ahead of his own town hall Tuesday, President Barack Obama sought to distance himself from charges by Democratic congressional leaders that boisterous health care dissent is "un-American," with his spokesman saying that the protests are a part of American life. Yet Obama could be in for similar disruptions as he takes the health care road-show to Portsmouth, N.H., where both sides are gearing up for a vigorous session. But his spokesman pushed back against the comments by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer...

Oligarch George Soros is sending a $5 million check to Health Care For America Now, the leading coalition of pro-reform groups, unions and providers, reports Greg Sargent. Among the 21 members of HCAN's steering committee are ACORN, MoveOn.org, the Center for American Progress and the Campaign for America’s Future (CAF). CAF is another institution that has received funding from Soros and the Rockefeller Family Fund. (The Rockefellers have always been major investors in the pharmaceutical industry, and have always been instrumental in directing legislation in a direction that benefits there pharma investments.) CAF also pushes for national health care as...

Talk about "manufactured outrage!" These people could give the right lessons in how to do it!Thanks "Missy" for passing this along: Now is our chance to make health care work. America’s health care system is broken. Health care costs are spiraling out of control, throwing families, businesses and government into financial crisis. Families are worried their health coverage won’t be there when they need it. Our country can’t afford to wait for health reform that keeps costs down and protects consumers. We can’t wait for affordable, dependable health care. We’re fighting for health care that will protect families’ financial health,...

Nancy Pelosi upped the ante in the health care debate when she responded to a media question in the following manner: Interviewer: Do you think there’s legitimate grassroot opposition going on here? Pelosi: "I think they’re Astroturf… You be the judge. "They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare." That being in addition to her reference to town hall protesters as "simply un-American."Well, first of all, Nancy Pelosi calls health care opponents "Astroturf," and the propagandist mainstream media have duly found evidence of one or two emails from conservative groups instructing opponents of health care...

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Several DNC front groups are placing ads in multiple cities for protesters. All while calling any citizen who disagrees "un-American." Example ad from Sacramento Is there anything wrong with this? No. But it just goes to show that leftists are staying true to form of their political father... Lenin. "Always accuse your victim of what you yourself are doing." Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Check out the strategic email featured on the website inviting people presumed to have the 'correct' opinions to be heard by their congressmen (VanHollen, Linder, and Kohl)on an appointment basis. I'll quote a comment from the webpage: "This is the dems plan, hide in the office, conduct “office visits”, and hold tele-conferences. That way, they don’t have to face their constituents, the media won’t be blind-sided into covering anything that isn’t love for the congresscritters, and no bad publicity of union goons beating up citizens." posted by UpNorth

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So I received an email/comment this morning about a craigslist ad soliciting health care activism for money. “Activism for money,” I thought!! Was this it at last? The missing link Democrats have been searching for? Obamacare opponents turning up at town halls really are a mob? We really are nothing but a slew of paid hacks drummed up by the promise of easy cash by cynical Obamacare opponents to create an artificial appearance of opposition?!? Ummmm, no.

Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the White House have called opposition to Democratic health care plans "Astroturf," while organizing their own "authentic" pro-Obamacare rallies at the same time. But there's one important question I have, checking out these protest photos from Denver, taken by Looking at the Left (link via Holy Coast). If opponents of Obamacare are Astroturf, then how come all of their signs are homemade, with all sorts of different shapes and sizes and colors and stuff... And how come all of the pro-Obamacare demonstrators have official-looking and uniform, pre-printed, signs?

IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure Discourse: At a town hall last week in Dallas, an elderly "mob" with "manufactured" outrage questioned AARP's support for nationalized health care, asking: "Do you work for us or do we work for you?"There were no swastika-wearing grannies at Tuesday's meeting, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might claim. Nor were they "taking their cues from talk show hosts, Internet rumor-mongers . . . and insurance rackets," as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said. But they were mad as hell at the perception that AARP was selling them out in the...

Awesome video from inside of Representative Kathy Castor's Townhall. The video is professional quality and show sights and sounds and Democrat Operative trying desperately to stack the room and create a cheerleading session. Alas, it wasn't to be, the chants from outside, and the few brave citizens who were able to get inside still made their presence felt.

A comprehensive list of National, Regional, State Based, and Local Organizations promoting Obamacare at link http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/who_we_are/

Pelosi's visit to Denver was met by anti-government protesters as well as government astroturfers. El Marco graphically illustrates exactly what astroturfing is and how it is intended to stifle dissent in America. photos essay here

Showing once again that he is no statesman--let alone President of the United States--Dictator-in-Chief Obama told his Union thugs to “get out there” and fight back against any and all US citizens who oppose both him and his programs. So, at Town Hall meetings in both Tampa, FL and St. Louis, MO they did. In Tampa, Randy Arthur was shoved up against a wall by purported SEIU thugs resulting in Arthur suffering chest injuries and a ripped shirt. At the same meeting, a Democrat Party official--Karen Miracle--was photographed assaulting Barry Osteen who had disagreed with Miracle’s husband on ObamaCare. Note:...

Ah, democracy! It never works better than when informed citizens gather in town hall meetings to discuss and debate the issues of the day. But, oh, democracy! It's never more damaged than when partisan zealots plot to disrupt town hall meetings in order to prevent any honest debate of the issues. And that's exactly what's happening in health care forums held across the nation by members of Congress. We've seen it in Philadelphia; Austin, Texas; Georgetown, Del.; Salisbury, Md; and other communities. Taking a page right out of a Nazi playbook, organizers bus in professional protestors and arm them with...

Mob Name Generator I'm "The Fist."

Remember kids, it's the health care protesters who are being organized in a top-down manner. Because whatever Team Lightbringer says during their afternoon unicorn rides must be true. To recap: anyone who protests at a health care pimping rally is is part of a well-funded, super organized mob, according to our friends on the left. (You can practically feel the hopenandchange permeating the entire process now, right?) And on the other side...it's just a sincere, merry band of innocents. Top White House officials counseled Democratic senators Thursday on coping with disruptions at public events on health care this summer, officials...

I have been periodically posting emails I get from moveon.org, as I am on their mailing list. I share them with my FReeper friends because I am sure you will find them as enlightening as I do. Notice that the last paragraph states: "This month could decide the future of health care and clean energy in America...". I posted another moveon.org email a few weeks ago that featured an offer for pre-orders for the latest Shepard Fairey poster of windmills because September was going to be the big push for "clean energy". This was set to kick-off before the Obama...

If you’ve been following the health insurance reform debate, you probably have a number of questions about how health insurance reform will help you and improve the quality of care you receive. With all the talk about health insurance reform, it can be difficult to sort out fact from fiction. We want to be sure you have the facts and answer your questions. Today, I’ll be moderating a webcast with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other top HHS officials where we’ll discuss how health insurance reform will benefit all Americans and take on some of the myths...

he traditional August recess during non-election years is usually like going cold turkey for political junkies (and bloggers are political junkies.) These dog days of summer drag by at an excruciatingly slooooow pace, with Congress and the President out of Washington and nothing happening to talk about. Not this year. This summer may even turn out to be more fun than last year’s, since Palinpalooza didn’t start until September and that was when the real fun started. This year it looks like we’re gonna see mob vs. mob action at townhall events across the nation. If you cruise the Kool-aid...

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DNC astro-turf mass-email received. Calling for counter protesters against actual concerned Citizens. My MSU Professor friend sent this to me today. Received it in his email this morning. Thought it would be noteworthy to all. Begin forwarded message: > From: President Barack Obama > Date: August 5, 2009 5:15:27 PM GMT-04:00 > Subject: This is the moment > Reply-To: info@barackobama.com > > This is the moment our movement was built for. > > For one month, the fight for health insurance reform leaves the > backrooms of Washington, D.C., and returns to communities across > America. Throughout August, members of...

Here are a list of calm, reasoned, embarrassing quesations to ask your parasitic whore Congresscritter during your next Town Hall meeting. Be polite, earnest, and respectful. 1. It was stated in 1965 by Ted Kennedy, in his Immigration and Naturalization Services Act, that "...our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually.... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset....”. How do we have any confidence the predictions for this> bill will be any more accurate? 2. According to Reason magazine, "The House Ways and Means Committee estimated that Medicare would cost only about $...

[NOTE: Comments in italics by The Jawa Report, photos and other snark in bold by grey_whiskers...] There’s been a lot of media coverage about organized mobs intimidating lawmakers, disrupting town halls, and silencing real discussion about the need for real health insurance reform. As opposed to Democratic Underground bragging about disrupting Town hall Meetings on President Bush's Social Security Reform. The truth is, it’s a sham. These “grassroots protests” are being organized and largely paid for by Washington special interests and insurance companies (they decline to name any, because there aren't any -ed.) who are desperate to block reform. They’re...

President Obama's political outfit, Organizing for America, is now trying to entice supporters to show up at health care events in order to make sure tea party protesters are outnumbered. Today, Vice President Joe Biden will be speaking in Michigan, and OFA wants to make sure he can. "Organized mobs across the country are intimidating lawmakers, disrupting events, and silencing discussions about the change our country needs," reads a letter from OFA's Michigan State Director to Obama allies. "The challenges our country faces are simply too great to let these debates be overrun by those angrily shouting down change" You...

These town hall protests against ObamaCare are truly the product of a vast right wing astroturfing conspiracy. And they are racist to the core as well. It is indeed common knowledge that if you oppose Obama's policies that you are a racist, but you are now part of the vast right wing astroturfing conspiracy as well. The word is out. Who exposed this "vast right wing astroturfing conspiracy?" Why, Dick Turban, Nancy Pelousy, and the State Run Media of course! You see, when liberals come together to fight for what they believe in it can't possibly be anything other than...

The other day Comrade Lochhead told us how Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent Congress home for the summer holiday with some talking points to spew when their local townsfolk asked pointed questions about health care. Hah! Town hall meetings. Nobody shows up to those snoozefests, right? Oooh, but have you seen some of the stuff that's been going down over the past few days? Congressfolk have been getting heckled when they hold town meetings back in their home districts. Looks like the work of the Tea Party crew -- combined with Obama health care haters like the Conservatives for Patients' Rights....

The same day the WH Press Secretary dismissed protests as "Astroturfing," I received this email from MoveOn, asking me to call Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor: Based upon my math, I am not aware that Republicans have sufficient numbers to hold anything hostage in the Senate. After all, it is Target #60 Sen. Lincoln who mentioned last week that she and her colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee have been "thorough and taken our time." Republicans also do not have sufficient numbers to "obstruct" health care in the Senate, especially in light of the recent pronouncement by Sen. Chuck...

MoveOn rakes in $120K+ off Palin email @ 11:01 am by Jeremy P. Jacobs In yet another example of Sarah Palin's lightning rod quality, MoveOn.org has raised over $120,000 in just a day after sending out an email criticizing the Alaska governor and asking for money. On Wednesday, MoveOn sent an email to supporters criticizing Palin's op-ed on energy issues in the Washington Post. The group asked for money to run an ad in response to Palin. At the time of this writing on Thursday, MoveOn has raised $124,000 and has extended its goal to $200,000. Palin has a high...

You know it's bad when Europe is saying that we're too socialist.

IF you believe the White House, 30 million Ameri cans support a govern ment health-care takeover. But if you look at the funding behind the ObamaCare campaign, it's the same few leftist billionaires, union bosses and partisan community organizers pushing the socialized medicine agenda. Let's connect the dots. On Thursday, a national "grass-roots" coalition called Health Care for America Now will march on Capitol Hill to demand universal health care. The ground troops won't have to march far. HCAN, you see, is headquartered at 1825 K Street in Washington, DC -- smack in the middle of Beltway lobby land. In...

It seems that a lot of Notre Dame students are offended by some Catholics’ decision to protest Barack Obama’s commencement speech on Sunday. In the weeks leading up to Obama’s visit, students sold T-shirts with a message for the protestors: “Please don’t ruin my graduation.” Fair enough. But I have to ask, what are they so upset about? Ruining college graduation ceremonies is a liberal pastime. If the commencement speaker doesn’t tell them exactly what they want to hear (or has political views to the right of Karl Marx), liberal narcissists respond with self-serving, disruptive protests.

Vomit inducing..... While receiving an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Notre Dame yesterday, President Barack Obama wore the school’s traditional doctoral robe that is inscribed with a prayer to the Virgin Mary as a reminder that all of the school’s activities are dedicated to the Mother of God. The robe is inscribed with two copies—one on each breast--of Notre Dame’s coat of arms, which includes the words “Vita, Dulcedo, Spes,” which are part of the traditional Roman Catholic prayer the Salve Regina—or Hail Holy Queen. “The phrase ‘Vita, Dulcedo, Spes,’ taken from the ancient prayer to the...