Posted on 08/12/2009 6:07:03 AM PDT by UnalienablyRight
The media have repeatedly stated how "angry," "hostile" and "ugly" town hall meetings across America are becoming. They are of course largely ascribing the nastiness to conservatives voicing their opposition to (among other things) President Barack Obama and Congress' proposed government takeover of the health care system.
The press has been particularly offended by the "extreme" use of references to Adolf Hitler specifically and Nazis generally. One image they have repeatedly used as an example of this alleged right-wing extremism is a poster of President Obama - on whose face a Hitler mustache has been Photo Shopped - bearing the caption "I've Changed."
But there's a problem with this media narrative.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
[I knew. Do I get a prize? ]
Lol, if I had one to give you!
Darn, I’m on cable and really having slowness tonight!
Fantastic! I love it all, and especially the acorn logo under the eagle.
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3 days now
Interestingly though, most LaRouchers I've met were African American.
The media seems not to notice their own contradiction:
You would think at least one reporter would have just a hint of curiosity and try to investigate this counter-intuitive phenomenon.
>Lehrer said that? - hattend
>Do you have a cite for that Lehrer quote? - JMack
From PBS.org...
Communicating health reform goals:
JIM LEHRER: As you know a lot of the commentary over the weekend was that nothing’s going to happen getting from here to the final hurdle here unless you really start cracking some heads, and really say, “Hey, this is the Obama plan, this is what I want. So much for what this committee wants and what that committee wants. Here’s what I want. I’m going to push and go.” Are you ready to do that?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: You know, the interesting thing is we’ve actually been very clear on what we want. I’ve said that I want to make sure that if you have health care you’re going to keep it. I’ve said that we’ve got to reform the insurance industry so people aren’t being excluded for preexisting conditions, that it’s not as easy for insurance companies to dump people when they change jobs or if they lose their job. I’ve been very clear about the fact that it has to be paid for. I’ve been very clear about the fact that we should have a public plan.
So we’ve laid a whole bunch of markers out there. And this week, as members of Congress have worked their way through this process and examined what all the options are, what we’re going to be doing is bringing some of them into the White House and —
JIM LEHRER: To crack heads?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Oh, I don’t know about cracking heads — facilitating —
Go to google, image section. Enter bush hitler and you will get close to two million hits.
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