But THIS is considered "scare tactics".
Posted on 08/05/2009 11:37:17 AM PDT by markomalley
Remember when the media lionized Cindy Sheehan and her fellow anti-war Code Pink protesters as they protested the war with tactics like disrupting multiple State of the Union addresses? The President’s inauguration? Hearings and public events too numerous too mention?
And I’m sure you’ve all seen news reports about union groups and other liberal activists storming the campaign offices of Republicans and things like that. It happens all the time.
It’s interesting to watch those same media types who seemingly have no problems with liberal activists harassing Republicans cluck their tongues derisively when Democrats are confronted by angry constituents at home who think they’ve going too far on issues like the “stimulus” and health care. At the link above a Rachel Maddow segment entitled “thug life” is detailed in which she suggests that conservatives are just trying to “shout down” liberals on health care.
That might be true if those doing the shouting were showing up at speeches and causing disruption (as so many on the left have done), but a constituent showing up at a town hall and giving his/her representation in Congress an earful? Isn’t that kind of how this whole “democracy” and “will of the people” thing is supposed to work?
I don’t think much gets done by shouting at politicians and calling them names, but on the same note it’s had not to blame some of these people for being angry. And the claims about the outspoken dissent at these town hall meetings being little more than “astroturf” coordinated by paid political operatives rings about as hollow as the same claims made about the tea parties.
Americans are righteously pissed off. It may be convenient to write in the newspaper or speak to the television camera about how it’s all just sideshow ginned up by Republicans to muddy the waters, but those evasions are only going to work for so long.
I actually think that if these media types bothered to talk to some of the people showing up at these town hall meetings they probably wouldn’t have very nice things to say about Republicans either. There is a “kick the bums out” attitude in America right now. The liberals ignore it at their own peril.
Because the media uses Stalinist tactics.
We were right to question the patriotism of people who publicly proclaimed support for the iraqi insurgency and a desire to see our troops killed.
There are conspiracy theories of the insurance industry funding these protests yet the hand of the Communist Party was never played up in MSM coverage of the so called antiwar movement (which was decidedly PRO-Palestinian war).
Remember that lunatic who got her bloody hands in the face of Condi Rice?
Citizens expressing their concerns are not thugs. Liberals and leftists always whine, then turn around and use thug tactics themselves. They are such notorious hypocrites, they should be ignored when they complain.
More right wing talking points from hate radio
/sarcasm
Do your duty, comrade!
The only problem will be if they can actually prove that insurance groups or Republican groups are organizing these disruptions of town halls then it will look bad and the Left may get some sympathy. It could backfire.
Disruptive thug, shouting down the leftists, part of an organized astroturf campaign coordinated by paid political operatives. Please contact "flag@whitehouse.gov" to report his spreading of misinformation.
Imagine if this was a pro-life protester instead of a code pinker.
I wonder if democrats would have allowed protesters with bloody hands to enter into a hearing of a democrat official?
The Demonrats have two complete sets of values: One for us and one for themselves, and never the twain meet.
Maybe we should dress up like clowns, the way the Marxists in Code Pink did, and shout, yell, and fake outrage, the way they did.
Yet they do it every time. It's like Rush says, it doesn't matter if he explains their problems and what they need to do because they don't listen to anyone but themselves.
It’s a sad day when we come to expect this out of the media.
Who is calling out the mobs?
Email from Obama.
http://looneyleft.com/?p=818
You just don’t understand.
Liberals speak truth to power. Hence, they are brave, wise, and very very good. Just ask them.
Conservatives are by definition bad. They are ugly ranters and thugs. And they are ignorant. Very very ignorant. Hence there is no need to listen to anything they say.
Right from the Alinsky Radicals playbook:
“RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)”
“Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/obama_alinsky_and_scapegoats.html
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