YOU CAN GUARANTEE IT WAS A SOCIALIST STUNT
AND BTW A REMINDER! ITS NOT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE ITS MANDATORY HEALTHCARE. IF THIS BILL PASSES AND HE REALLY DOES HAVE IT, HE WONT GET IT, HE WILL JUST PAY A FINE SINCE HE CANT AFFORD IT. WELCOME TO THE NEW AMERICA OF BARACK OBAMA.
The Left never gets as animated as when they think their enemies might be encroaching on behaviors they believe they have exclusive rights to.
Looked like a staged event.
Kenneth Gladney comes to mind Also. The left was silent when SEIU smashed him but now this guy who faked Parkinsons is getting cheers all over because of this.
“Tea Partiers Mock Parkinson’s Victim (Barf alert!) Please confirm if this is true”
I saw this on Matthews last night, my first thought was SEIU goons pulling a Protest Warrior stunt.
If true, that’s an interesting accusation from the Left who routinely mocked George W. Bush for his lack of speaking skills, accent and so on.
The Parkinson’s card worked so well in 2006, might as well go back to it.
Of course, under ObamaCare, the same guy would be labeled a “useless eater” and sent before a Death Panel.
Even their title says: “APPARENT - Parkinson’s victim”.
Obviously the whole thing is a set up.
I couldn’t read the sign — what else was on the sign, beside “I have Parkinson’s”? Was it something like “I have Parkinson’s and I support Obamacare”?
Obviously the guy deliberately sat close to the Tea Party protestors to challenge them. THAT is what they were reacting to, not his claimed disease?
And one of the key cost savings of Obamacare is to NOT treat people with chronic diseases.
more like what a liberal would do
Nonsense. Now we know they ARE desperate. God forgive THEM.
The original report from the Dispatch.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/multimedia/video/video.html?video=949486
This is as real as the NJ Wal-Mart story.
I will never forget when George Clooney (liberal)
mocked Charleton Heston (conservative)
for being afflicted with Alzheimers Disease.
Of course, the left NEVER criticized him for THAT.
But Charleton had a wonderful rejoinder.
(He said, “CLASS often skips a generation!” LOL.
Searching around, it seems this guy might be telling the truth, and those might be real tea partiers.
If this video is for real, they’re behaving badly, unlike the vast majority of tea partiers, but not as badly as I’ve witnessed leftist protesters behaving. Still, we’re only seeing part of the video here. We don’t know what was said before or after the video. We don’t know if the guy throwing money even read the sign. He might’ve just thought the man was someone begging for money. Whatever happened, the man and the person filming were just waiting for something to catch on film.
I say BS. Every time I have been with Tea Party members, or protesters wit hthe same mind set, the people were all well behaved almost ot a fault!
A security guard tells one of us we can’t sit on a fountianside and we politely move.
We gotta fight the propagandists and far left nazties with our heads. But it’s getting time for other strategies as well.
See you in DC on Saturday!
Parkinsonism is a clinical manifestation consistin;g of 4 cardinal signs: Tremor at rest; rigidity of extremities; Bradykinesia ( slow movement of the extremities); and loss of posteral reflexes. Bradykinesia refers to a paucity of automatic and spontaneous movements and difficulty in initiating voluntary movement. (Take a look at the other You-tube video of this hero). He moves his extremeties with purpose and will vigor and almost immediate spontanaeity when discussing what he was saying. He gesticulates purposefully and he does not have hypomimia (lack of expression of the face) which is so characteristic of Parkinsonism (especially after 15 years, so he says). Bradykinesia accounts for the majority of signs of Parkinsonism with general slowing of movement of extremeties (Again take a look at the other You-tube videos and ask if his arm movements are slowed.) Generally decreased facial motor activity results in drooling...not there. There is generally a marked diminuition in blinking...take a look at his blinking on the other videos. There is nearly always a decrease in the amplitude of repetetive movements (watch his hands on the other videos. There is almost always a loss of gesturing while speaking. Does this guy gesticulate automatically....Yes he does. Disability ( wheelchair bound condition) generally comes after 10 -15 years. Did this guys friends just pour him out on the street for the video. And why was a video, complete with closeups, ready and shot in a 45 second encounter? This was not a cell-phone video.
I am not looking at the guy to examine him, but he does not add up to Parkinsonism.
This is a propaganda attempt. The money guy shoving his way out and clearly enunciating for the camera is just too perfect. Just in case, he turns and repeats the performance. Finally, he reaches under his arm and withdraws a tiny sign that reads, “I Am AFP”, which presumably refers to Americans for Prosperity. The filmaker is Doral Chenoweth who has ties to Habitat For Humanity and numerous other Social Justice causes. Not buying it, too cute by half.
I dont’ see what was so terrible about it. The man is an intelligent older guy (professor) who got a bad disease, lost his job (I guess liberal colleges didn’t want him), couldn’t pay his health insurance, but qualifies for medicare so he’s still being treated.
So he shows up at a rally, and sits right in front of a bunch of anti-Obamacare protestors, waving a sign in their faces, and taking up a good deal of space where they all have to be careful.
And careful they are, nobody is near him, or threatening him. One guy points out that if he wants free care, he’s at the wrong part of the rally. Which he was. It is a typical liberal trick to exploit their disabled for political gain, and they obviously wanted to put this guy where he could ridicule our side and our side would feel like they couldn’t fight back.
But our side saw past his disability, and saw him as a man with really bad ideas, a man who was fighting for a health care bill that would take billions from the program that is paying his insurance, and would cause him to lose his doctor.
The other guy is more mocking, but he’s not mocking the guy’s disease, he’s mocking the guy’s desire to get other people to pay for his health care. So he gives him money, saying “If I’m going to pay for you, it’s going to be voluntarily”. Which is the message our side is sending.
We are free to make fun of whatever we want, regardless of whether or not it is offensive to others.