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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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To: Scanian

And FWIW, when Obambi came to Raleigh a week or so ago, tea party members spotted out of state buses unloading passengers at the capital, where they were put on city buses to take them to the town hall meeting. Yeah, that’s grassroots.


21 posted on 08/09/2009 5:20:47 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution - 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: TC Rider
"The question is, which slavish mainstream reporter has the honesty, and strength of will to report the truth? "

Not a one. Even if there was, the chief Obama worshiping co-conspirator editors would not allow it.

22 posted on 08/09/2009 5:33:39 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Scanian

Those Demonrats are accusing us of being like them. When they hold a “demonstration” the signs are professionally printed and ALL ALIKE, as they are in UAW strikes. That takes days, weeks to accomplish with a printer.

They are the Astroturfers, not us. They lie. A lot.


23 posted on 08/09/2009 5:33:55 AM PDT by RoadTest (For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Isaiah 55:8)
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To: Scanian

Silly question...

Don’t you know that grass-roots organizations, like Move-On.org, Jon Podesta’s “Center for American Progress,” ANSWER, ACORN, AFL-CIO, SEIU, etc all, with their huge levels of funding by leftist America haters like George Soros and Peter Lewis are clearly grass-roots organizations. They just want to make sure that everyone can read the signs, hence the professionally printed signs, handed out to the individuals. Never mind that the crowds are probably bussed in and paid to be there.

No, if someone actually decides that they want to see their congress-critter and let it know what they think, that congress-critter KNOWS right off the bat that they’re under the mind control machine that Karl Rove used to use. How they managed to smuggle it out of the White House, I have no idea! But anyone who tries to express their individual thoughts and feelings to their representative is clearly being “anti-government” and racist!

Seriously though, it really is amazing how unabashedly the left is projecting their own actions upon what they see the public actually doing. So far, the MSM has been their willing accomplices. Hopefully, this will end before too much longer.

Mark


24 posted on 08/09/2009 6:01:58 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
We need to stop it at the source, money. As long as the government has first dibs on our paychecks, we cannot be free.

(See Tagline...)

25 posted on 08/09/2009 6:03:12 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Our Last Best Hope: REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT!)
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To: Scanian

Thou shalt not question Teh Wun. Now turn yourself in on his snitch line. His “civilian defense forces” will be visiting you shortly.


26 posted on 08/09/2009 6:12:02 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Thanks for posting. Those are some great signs.


27 posted on 08/09/2009 6:38:34 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Love those signs! The things I see in Rep. grassroots protest signs are creativty, they are always changing to fit the issue of the day, and common sense slogans that focus on freedom and independance from govt. Democrat signs tend to be more uniform and focus on “dependance”.


28 posted on 08/09/2009 7:28:31 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: Scanian


Check out the woman on the right. What a class group.

29 posted on 08/09/2009 7:44:20 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Current Misery Index Approximately 36%; Obama isn't a Marxist, he's a NAZI)
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To: cake_crumb

I guess she couldn’t wait.


30 posted on 08/09/2009 7:46:44 AM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: Scanian
How come the unorganized Obamacare supporters wear matching T-shirts ...and the "organized Astroturfers" are "too well dressed?"

Dems really are dimwits...Barbara Boxer one of the dumbest! Their supporters are dumber than dirt!!!

31 posted on 08/09/2009 7:54:51 AM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: usmcobra

Or crabs?


32 posted on 08/09/2009 7:59:52 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Current Misery Index Approximately 36%; Obama isn't a Marxist, he's a NAZI)
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To: OCCASparky

Better bring a lot of them...

The more the merrier..


33 posted on 08/09/2009 8:39:49 AM PDT by stevie_d_64
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To: Scanian

So should we refer to those who support Obummer-(alleged)Care as the Afroturf crowd?


34 posted on 08/09/2009 11:40:06 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
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?

35 posted on 08/09/2009 7:10:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

“So should we refer to those who support Obummer-(alleged)Care as the Afroturf crowd?”

I was thinking it could be “Afroturf, -surf and -pie-in-the-sky...” (re: land, sea and air)


36 posted on 08/15/2009 3:22:09 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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