When the Left doesn’t like it loud (Angry Mobs Drive Them Nuts)

The Minneapolis-St Paul Star Tribune ^ | August 22, 2009 | Katherine Kersten

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Protesters and citizens asking angry questions have flooded the “town halls” where congressional representatives have tried to sell President Obama’s health care reform agenda to the American people.

The protesters have stolen the show, with 69 percent of Americans telling pollsters they are following the story closely. Town-hall-goers — some raucous — are probing costs, are raising questions about government encroachment on private life, and are deploring the fact that few legislators seem to have read the 1,000-page health care reform bill. Democrats have often had trouble answering credibly.

The protesters are having an impact. Last week, the administration_appeared to pull back on the “public option” as a centerpiece of Obama’s reform agenda.

I thought folks on the left loved protesters—the rowdier, the better. Liberals are fond of reminding us that free speech is sacred, and that dissent — “speaking truth to power” —is a patriotic duty. Remember the 2008 Republican National Convention? The ACLU of Minnesota went to court to win a parade permit that would have allowed thousands of protesters, including anarchists who had vowed to shut down the convention, to encircle St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center, where delegates convened.

Today’s town hall protesters get no such respectful treatment. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has branded them “evil-mongers.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer have labeled them “un-American.” Left-wing_journalists have mocked them as buffoons, extremists and crazies.

Most significantly, some Democratic leaders have charged that town hall protesters are not ordinary citizens speaking from the heart, as they appear to be. Instead, they are puppets, part of an “ugly campaign” — in Pelosi’s and Hoyer’s words — orchestrated by shadowy special interests.

If you know_town-hall-goers, as I do, you know that most learned about the meetings from friends, through e-mails or on talk_radio.(continued)

[markman46]

quick.. grab it before someone steps on it

[Smokin' Joe]

We have the same problem here.

Apparently, Mr. Pomeroy does not want to meet with us face to face.

Pity.

Partly because there is only a busy signal for all the people who might otherwise jam parking lots or stand outside the door.

Pity, because it is difficult to record actions, expressions, and statements over the phone, and because we can't see who's who.

And a d@mned shame because he will be able to feed the media any account he pleases as to what was said, how it was said, and who said it.

For whatever reason, (maybe no SEIU and ACORN folks were available up here to be bussed in, or they did not want to pay them travel time) this is the venue Mr. Pomeroy has chosen to discuss health care proposals with us mouthpiece to earpiece, rather than face to face.

[SwinneySwitch]

The Bee-Picyaune has this video of the Tea Party Patriots!

http://www.mysoutex.com/pages/videos_photos_bee