This has made it into the e-mail of most of the people I know. I tend not to think too much of it without any other supporting evidence/witnesses. And if these people are SO concerned, then why the heck are they not booking themselves on FOX? Surely, someonelse MUST have seen something and are not quivering in their boots afraid to mention it.
Where are their pics?
Rush had a caller on describing the event and it validates the e-mail.
RUSH: We’re going to go to Roundup, Montana, and start there. Sandy, hi. Great that you called. I’m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It’s a privilege to be on your show.
RUSH: Thanks very much.
CALLER: I just wanted to comment on the Belgrade town hall meeting in Montana.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: My family and I were first-time attendees for any kind of protesting at all. I’m a stay-at-home mom, raised four children, homeschooled them. But, you know, just like many other people in America, it’s high time that we state our opinion and exercise our First Amendment right, you know, freedom of speech and we went there even though we didn’t have tickets. We wrote out our signs, signs saying things like, “Government Hands Off,” “Give Me liberty and Give Me Life,” those sort of things. When we showed up, we didn’t really know where to stand. We saw many other first-time protesters, as well. They were equally confused on where to go. But all we had to do was listen and look, and we heard a tea party group set up on a five-acre lot, and we actually heard your program being aired, and as soon as we heard your voice, we said, “A-ha, that’s where we’re supposed to be.”
RUSH: Well, it was just like being at home!
CALLER: (giggling) So we went ahead and followed that area, and some of the people that were holding protesting signs that were first-timers also went in that direction. When we arrived, though, there was a whole lot of confusion because all we heard was your voice over a loudspeaker. But then we heard a big group saying, “Hush Rush! Hush Rush,” and we thought, “Wait a second, what’s going on? Are these for or against? What in the world?” We later found out that the tea party group that rented the five-acre area were infiltrated by the ACORN group. The ACORN group had another area but it wasn’t as strategically placed in as good of an area to protest or support and they had actually come and mixed themselves among the protesters, and there was utter confusion. I could not believe it, because every time you turned around you saw an Obama sign supporting it, and then you’d see sprinkled throughout protesters here and there. But my point is that ACORN clearly infiltrated the area where the protesters were. And one of the things that was so glaring that I noticed is I know the media has this big thing about how, “Oh, the conservatives, you know, the people that are protesting this health care are angry mobs that are showing up at town hall meetings.” Well, we find the opposite to be true. All the conservatives that I saw, my family includes, were simply holding up our signs. And what would happen was these ACORN people would come up — or people that were walking to the town hall would come up — and literally shake their heads and start screaming something at you. And our response was never venomous back to them. You know, at one time there was a gentleman that walked by my husband’s sign and he had all these, you know, “No Universal Health Care” signs and so forth —
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: — and he literally shook his head and had a position as if he was going to hit my husband and all my husband said back to him was, “It’s great to be an American, isn’t it, sir?” which I think of course made him even angrier. But what ended up happening was after, you know, the whole scene went we looked back and noticed that ACORN was such an organized group that most of the protesters were people just like myself — people that love their country, that simply want their voice to be heard and they may never have done that before in their life. And I don’t consider myself a political activist, you know, I pray for my country, I love my country but I finally got to the point where I said, “Hey, there’s an area that we can, you know —
RUSH: Right. Here’s what happened —
CALLER: — show up and look like we’re in support. And I’ll tell you, Rush, the terrible thing, too, that every time the media would come, these ACORN people would get out of their vehicles. They would be waiting until the perfect time, they’d get out of their vehicles and then they tried to crowd out where we were holding our signs. And I had heard that also when the tea partiers had tried to ask the folks to leave the area because it was a rented area for the tea party group, they were arrested. And, you know, I was so outraged when we had gotten home after it was all over... We had gotten home I knew that, you know, it was going to be on the media, on the TV, on the news, we even went to some conservative news sites like NewsMax.com. And we were so disheartened because the consensus was that, “Oh, he was fairly well received.” That’s not the way we looked at it. We looked at it as we were crowded out by an organized group that has their job.
RUSH: Right. Sandy, here’s what happened to you. This is a great story. It’s a great illustration, too. You show up because of passion. You show up for the first time ever anything like this because of passion, fear, whatever it is. You don’t want what is being proposed. You don’t want what is being shoved down the throat. It doesn’t remind you of what your country is. And the Obama people are not showing up at these town hall meetings because of passion. They’re not showing up to support this. They’re showing up because they’ve been given orders. ACORN is part of this organizing group. They’re showing up here to try to disrupt; they’re showing up trying to intimidate. That’s why I said last week, I’m so proud of people like you and the people that are showing up at these town hall meetings because it’s genuine. It’s the truth versus lies. It’s real passion versus fake and it’s available for everybody to see, like you saw it. And it’s always more powerful when somebody experiences something rather than has it described to them. Now, listen, I’ve got a sound bite here that will go very well with her call. This is Saturday on NPR, All Things Considered. The host was interviewing a senior writer for something called “The Root,” and I’m not even going to try with these names. The question: “There’s a lot of confusion and misinformation out there on the various plans for changing the health care system,” and an essay on the website TheRoot.com argues, the rage isn’t really about health care at all. The author, Kay Wright, says it’s really about the anxieties of a whole segment of America that increasingly feels shut out.