Posted on 08/11/2009 9:13:56 AM PDT by Kozman
One further point that came out of the left wing panel discussion here at tht ASA conference in San Francisco was that to a man Steve Kest, executive director of ACORN, George Goehl of the National People's Action Network, Gabe Gonzales of the Center for Community Change and Matt Hammer of the People Acting in Community were not buying into the claims that the protests going on against the healthcare plan were staged or because Obama is black.
None of them believe Nancy Pelosi's claim that the protests are orchestrated.
None of them buy into Krugman's statement that...
Remember, this panel was talking to a very friendly crowd and obviously, it's clear from their other comments, they were letting their hair down and telling it like it is. And in this hardcore setting, nobody played the race card and nobody called the protests staged, you could see it in their faces, they new it was real. And more than anything, they were trying to find away for the left to tap into that anger...
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Very nice analogy of the events, and I am glad to read it —
But MAN, the writer needs a good editor!
The only people who don’t know this are the left-media and SEIU members. Even Pelosi, Boxer & Reid know their “Astroturf” claims are untrue.
They will deny that any of this is true.
"the expert, Gail Reed, is a longtime admirer of the Cuban revolution, married to the Cuban official who served as ambassador to Grenada in the early 1980s when U.S. troops liberated the island from hardline communists who had executed the leftist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. She's also worked at Granma, Cuba’s official communist party newspaper."
Posted on Sunday, August 09, 2009 11:38:34 AM ET by ETL:
They’re probably realizing that if they continue to act against the Townhall protesters as if it really ISN’T a grassroots movement they’re going to get their clocks cleaned, which could lead to the gravy train being derailed for them.
I don’t think anyone accept the biggest dolts out there believe a word Nauncy Pelosi says.
Most people know this, even DUmmies.
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