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Grassroots vs. Astroturf
The American Spectator ^ | August 8, 2009 | Philip Klein

Posted on 08/09/2009 3:34:29 AM PDT by Scanian

Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the White House have called opposition to Democratic health care plans "Astroturf," while organizing their own "authentic" pro-Obamacare rallies at the same time. But there's one important question I have, checking out these protest photos from Denver, taken by Looking at the Left (link via Holy Coast).

If opponents of Obamacare are Astroturf, then how come all of their signs are homemade, with all sorts of different shapes and sizes and colors and stuff...

And how come all of the pro-Obamacare demonstrators have official-looking and uniform, pre-printed, signs?

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: astroturf; bhoastroturfing; grassroots; homemadesigns; liberalfascism; townhalls; unionsigns
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1 posted on 08/09/2009 3:34:29 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

How come that leftist activists are LIARS?
And OBAMAO is an activist who happens to be “POTUS”...Then HE is a LIAR as his bunch of thugs in the administration


2 posted on 08/09/2009 3:40:07 AM PDT by Ulysse
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To: Scanian
If opponents of Obamacare are Astroturf, then how come all of their signs are homemade, with all sorts of different shapes and sizes and colors and stuff...

Because they had to dig in their kids' marker box and rummage around for posterboard, after all, they have to pay for all these wonderful new programs...

And how come all of the pro-Obamacare demonstrators have official-looking and uniform, pre-printed, signs?

Because they got stimulus money through ACORN or somebody and could afford slick signs.

3 posted on 08/09/2009 3:46:11 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Scanian

Obamamobs and liberals are too lazy to make their own signs?


4 posted on 08/09/2009 3:46:45 AM PDT by DeusExMachina05 (I will not go into Dhimmitude quietly.)
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To: Scanian

The roots of the “hair” of the Obama admin and the (D) party are beginning to show. Pretty soon, they’ll have to shave their proverbial heads to keep any of it from seeing the light of day. However, to do that they’ll have to pull their heads out of their elitist asses...not to mention everyone else’s.


5 posted on 08/09/2009 3:52:07 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: Ulysse
"How come that leftist activists are LIARS?"

It's all they know. Years and years of making up lies in order to gain political power have turned them into compulsive liars.

They just can't help themselves. Every time their mouth opens, lies just stream out automatically.

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6 posted on 08/09/2009 3:52:13 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Smokin' Joe

we have to destroy ACORN. we have to destroy SCIU. thats the bottom line.

it will take 3 years.


7 posted on 08/09/2009 3:53:01 AM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (Sarah Palin in 2012 !)
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To: Scanian

Because whatever charge they make, lefites and dumblecrats are guiltier of it.

Some folks are swayed by it.


8 posted on 08/09/2009 3:55:57 AM PDT by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09!)
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To: Scanian
I love this sign with the rubber chicken...


9 posted on 08/09/2009 3:56:11 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Ulysse

The Democratic party is a bunch of professional rationists.

And global warming is manufactured astroturf famine, it is all artificial folkes. They are organized around the rationist mentality of Eurotrash communist socialist genocidist model of rationing.

Even the term grassroot used by them implies a rationist attitude, a sort of professionalized rapist rationist muzzle and sexual blocking attitude behind liberalness.

This is not America. America is about heros and full faithful enjoyers of the fruits of the sacrifices, zeal in battle matching zeal in peace, pushing the limits.

Beware of the professionals and rationists. Professionals are prostitutes and castrating castrates.


10 posted on 08/09/2009 4:00:13 AM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Scanian

I would rather be astroturf than fertilizer, because that is what they dems are full of!!!! Grassroots vs fertilizer


11 posted on 08/09/2009 4:01:21 AM PDT by wbones8765 ("Give me liberty or give me death")
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To: Scanian

Well, with in mind of criminalizing every detail of life, it is not wonder Democrates are looking more and more like Hitler’s army everyday and using clever pseudorandom arts.


12 posted on 08/09/2009 4:02:13 AM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Adder

Yep. Some hear “union” and gravitate to that side no matter what.


13 posted on 08/09/2009 4:09:31 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Nathan Zachary

I am starting to “love” liars.

Everytime they boast of their accomplishments, screwing this guy over, laughing at how they enjoy their wealth stolen from other people and meant for other people, because, in the end, it really is an exercise in denial, a dark discipline coming from darkness.

Yes, they have deep character flaws and very shameful pasts and intents, and that is why they are so clever or bullying as liars. Their power only derives from finding ways to having been originaly fataly screwed.

The liberals’ empowered lie, whether by cleverness or sheer stupid force, is nothing for them to boast about, but a proof A PROOF that it was developed upon a foundation of hiding deep stupidity, fatal flaws and being fataly owned and had.

So they can go ahead and spit out their “I love science” BS and all their lies and think of themselves in pride, it proves the opposite to me.


14 posted on 08/09/2009 4:10:27 AM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Scanian
Here is some "grassrooters" in action against the supposed "astroturfers":

Are you paying attention now?

Are you paying attention now? ver. 2

15 posted on 08/09/2009 4:12:22 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
For now, they have to be shown for what they are by photographs, videos, etc.

Get the mood out there hostile toward the punks, so hostile anyone associated with either group who has a sense of decency will decry this crap and push to change the organizations from within.

Show the whole thing for the ugliness it is, and get that trickle of defectors and deserters going and thin their ranks.

Public opinion has to be against them, especially if there is a 'trigger' incident which is really unjustifiable in the minds of workaday America.

Whatever that incident is, it has to go viral and end up on TV, radio, internet, YouTube, etc. before the last punch is thrown.

The reason I advocate replacing sign posts with stout (1-1.5" dia.) 6-8 ft. poles is to be ready to defend, be able to form a phalanx, trip them up, use them as a barrier, etc. to mess up their game if they decide to really up the ante.

16 posted on 08/09/2009 4:14:05 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Yep. It’s the professional look of TOTUS at work in poster signs forms. They cannot formulate their own posters and original words. It’s all coming down from their “education” and being told to do as robots. IT makes these plantation idiots look good and accomplishing something. The slave is proud his neat looking uniform looks better than the clothing of the freeman next door (vanity of vanity).

IT’s really a Wilsonian movement in many ways, right unto civilian life and not just the military.


17 posted on 08/09/2009 4:20:31 AM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Mad Dawgg

YEp, typical drunk and feminist tone of Union thugs. Typical prostitutive brazen lie right after punching people. Typical attack on person with camera when they are caught on camera.

Sharia is a step up and not down for these suckers from hell.

All they are is government footstools... nice to have, thank you, but to be dumped ultimately.


18 posted on 08/09/2009 4:31:12 AM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Scanian

Jim Lehrer (PBS, D): "Crack their heads. Crack their heads, Mr. President.
We promise to NEVER report on your thuggery, head-cracking and attacks on Americans (for PBS)."


19 posted on 08/09/2009 4:41:43 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: Scanian
The funny thing is, the left's signs will always look the same because they all are required to have the union 'bug' on them. The little mark signifying they came out of a union print shop.

The question is, which slavish mainstream reporter has the honesty, and strength of will to report the truth?

20 posted on 08/09/2009 5:19:11 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution - 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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