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?

[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!