Posted on 08/04/2009 3:17:37 PM PDT by Libloather
Health Care Protests Grow Like Weeds in August
Lobbyists and tea party protesters team up during congressional summer recess
By SARA K. SMITH
Updated 6:04 AM CDT, Tue, Aug 4, 2009
August is usually what the Media Elite like to call a "slow news month," but maybe this one will be different, because every day some news organ will be able to run comical footage of legislators getting harassed to death by angry (and occasionally fake) constituents who don't like all this talk about healthcare reform.
Across the nation, the same conservative lobbying groups that brought you the infamous teabagger protests are organizing to flood town hall meetings with outraged yokels shouting about socialism.
Some legislators have already faced the terrifying spectacle of bestickered mobs chanting "Just Say No!" or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance (which, you will recall, was written specifically by Thomas Jefferson to secure a citizen's fealty to a free-market health care scheme).
**SNIP**
So whereas August used to be the month in which congresspeople and senators could return to their home districts for quiet, thoughtful sit-downs with voters, it will now be the month when they confront carefully coached gaggles of protesters whose stated objective is to raise the suspicion that a majority of voters in their district don't want health care reform, regardless of whether that's true or not.
Of course, it's every citizen's right to attend whatever town halls they want to, and to shout whatever they feel like at whomever they want. Our federal lawmakers are, by and large, grownups, and should not wilt under a fusillade of talking points from astroturfing wingnuts. Right?
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
It's only August 4th and they're already cracking up.
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
Leftists only respect dissent when they’re out of power.
We are turning the obmanation’s indoctrination and plan around on him:
‘Change,’ for Alinsky, invoked radical socialism and meant the redistribution of wealth. [For] Obama [it] means the same, but by hiding the reference he avoids having to be explicit about the radical goal behind the theme.”
Some Key Alinsky Code Words
Change - Eliminating the free enterprise system and replacing it with socialism, and peacefully overthrowing the present government and replacing it with communism.
Community Organizer - One who (1) agitates by identifying and magnifying the real or imagined failings of the establishment as they supposedly apply to the target group, (2) organizes the target group into a political force, and (3) turns that force into “change”.
Didn’t Hillary Clinton say as much?
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS NOW A BAD THING, INDEED!!
This gets my goat. Anyone have her email?
The author slipped in the pejorative “teabagger” and works for Wonkette. Who would have guessed?
Citizens expressing their opinions is an absolute right in America.
Hell, no, we won’t go.
Read it and shiver libtards. Those words from the past are going to haunt you in the new context.
To quote our President: “Get in their face.”
Couldn't find one. Just another left wingnut with a keyboard?
http://www.nbcchicago.com/topics/?topic=Sara+Smith
Ah, the utter contempt that the media has for those who disagree with "the story" [in this case, that "there is a crisis in health care that needs to be fixed -- right now!"] that the media is trying to peddle.
I intend to show up when my (very liberal) congressman holds his townhall meeting later this month.
I wonder if, with my Masters Degree, I qualify as an "outraged yokel".
Community organizing is only wrong if it goes against the dimocrats.
Wonkette is now considered a serious ‘journalist’?!
Sara K. Smith - Wonkette
While following the election of Barack Obama, the site also began making frequent jokes at the expense of Tea Party Protesters, Birthers and Sarah Palin.
Wonkette was established in January 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network. Its founding editor was Ana Marie Cox, a former editor at suck.com. Under her tenure, Wonkette became known for its sharp, sarcastic, and for its mixture of heady political discourse with repeated references to gin and anal sex.
It also launched Wonkabout, a D.C. culture guide, on February 12, 2009, which features a weekly brunch column by Brunch DC creator Michael Herman.
I wonder if, with my Masters Degree, I qualify as an “outraged yokel”.
only if it’s in some BS subject like mathematics or mechanical engineering. the only degrees with any real value are womens, black or latino studies. /sarcasm
>> The author slipped in the pejorative “teabagger” and works for Wonkette. Who would have guessed? <<
I noticed that too, but it could be par for the course for an NBC affiliate.
Starting now, let’s ALL be community organizers.
I guess I am a teabagging yokel now. It is way better than being a commie socialist beotch any day.
“Some legislators have already faced the terrifying spectacle of bestickered mobs chanting “Just Say No!” or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance”
The horror, the horror!
“it will now be the month when they confront carefully coached gaggles of protesters whose stated objective is to raise the suspicion that a majority of voters in their district don't want health care reform, regardless of whether that's true or not.”
What ever you want to make you feel better you commie bitch!
She said she had a right to debate and disagree with any administration. She didn't say you have that right.
” teabagging yokel”
Never let the opposition define you.
Sarah K. Smith is in all probability a frustrated girly journo who hasn’t an original word in her lexicon so she’s resorting to hashed over lefty jargon.
The weed probably smoked her brain to a fine patina-like haze resembling leather.
Libtards all.
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