[Swiftwater Gazette] What, Me Worry?

[Eric Sandberg]

Brad,

The latest from M/M on the subject of tea parties.

She's pretty much on the money, as usual.

Rik

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http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/05/tea-party-bashers-gone-wild/

Tea Party-bashers gone wild By Michelle Malkin  •  August 5, 2009 07:01 AM

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Tea Party-bashers gone wild
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate <http://www.creators.com/>
Copyright 2009

The activist Left can’t stand competition. Last week in Long Island, NY,
opponents of the Democrats’ government health care takeover legislation
outnumbered Obama supporters ten to one. The Tea Party activists toted
American flags and signs that read “WE CAN’T AFFORD FREE HEALTH CARE” –
prompting one foe to stalk into the peaceful crowd, gesticulate wildly, and
shout<http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/25/video-acorn-affilates-go-nuts-on-tea-party-activists/>unintelligible
threats at the top of his lungs.

The same Democrat Masters of Astroturf who encouraged their followers to use
“in your face”<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/17/politics/p185733D40.DTL&type=politics>tactics
during the campaign season now balk at vocal opposition from their
fiscally conservative neighbors and co-workers. Obama’s architects of Kabuki
town halls have packed public forums with partisan plants. Now, they accuse
opponents gathering at impromptu rallies against the massive health care
takeover legislation (which no one has read) of orchestrating “manufactured
anger.”<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/04/white-house-dismisses-health-care-protests/?feat=home_headlines>

Unaccustomed to pushback, the wealthy, astro-turfed ground troops for
Obamacare – underwritten by unions, liberal philanthropists, the AARP,
ACORN, and your tax dollars — have resorted to projection. As I’ve reported
previously, the single-payer lobby boasts a $40 million budget and a stable
of seasoned political operatives based at 1825 K Street in Washington,
D.C.<http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/24/who%E2%80%99s-funding-the-obamacare-astroturf-campaign/>Now,
that cabal is accusing the broad coalition of taxpayer activists,
libertarians, independents, talk radio loyalists, bloggers, and first-time
protesters against socialized medicine of being, yes, wealthy and
astroturfed.

In a comical missive issued Tuesday afternoon, Democratic National Committee
spokesman Brad Woodhouse<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/04/dnc-hammers-republican-backed-mob-rule/>complained:
“The Republicans and their allied groups — desperate after
losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol
Hill — are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing
extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions
about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional
Districts across the country.”

The DNC definition of “thoughtful:” Sitting silent about the lack of
transparency, deliberation, truth in numbers, and reciprocity on the
Obamacare plan. The DNC definition of incitement: Asking out loud, “How can
you manage health care when you can’t manage Cash For
Clunkers?”<http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/02/grass-roots-revolt-in-austin-tx-just-say-no-to-obamacare/>

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, apparently oblivious to the dozens
of well-dressed and well-heeled former lobbyists and influence peddlers
employed by his own boss, derided health care town hall protesters as
the “Brooks
Brothers brigade.”
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124939676158504833.html>Brooks
Brothers was also the president’s clothes designer of choice on
Inauguration Day. He taunted: “I hope people will take a jaundiced eye to
what is clearly the AstroTurf nature of so-called grass-roots lobbying.”
Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dispatched a memo obtained by
D.C.-based newspaper Human Events assuring Democrats of “close coordination”
with faux grass-roots groups “including but not limited to HCAN, Families
USA, AFSCME, SEIU, AARP, etc.”<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32987>

But never mind all that.

Some panicked congressional targets of the Tea Party movement have responded
by shutting their offices, closing their blinds, and shooing pesky
constituents off public property. The White House health czar’s office is
mustering up Internet snitches
<http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/health-care-czars-office-calls-for-internet-snitch-brigade/>to
report “inaccurate” blog posts and “casual conversations” from health care
opponents. And liberal bloggers and cable yakkers are waging their own war
on the Tea Party movement by redefining participatory democracy as
“thuggery” and “hooliganism.”

Talking Points Memo blogger Josh Marshall bemoaned a fiscal conservative
activist’s memo offering
advice<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/tea-party-town-hall-strategy-rattle-them-stand-up-and-shout.php?ref=fpa>on
how to “pack the hall..spread out” and challenge a politician early
“to
rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda.” Horrors! “This
amounts to a sort of civic
vigilanteism,”<http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/08/which_reporters_will_get_snowed.php?ref=fpblg>Marshall
fretted.

No, showing up at a congressional town hall and booing a talking
points-programmed political hack isn’t “civic vigilantism.” Throwing rocks,
pouring cement on train tracks, blocking military shipments, smashing
windows, hurling paint, slashing tires, vandalizing businesses, and throwing
shoes are vigilante acts.

That is what the anti-war, anti-free trade, anti-Bush mobsters did over the
last eight years – and there wasn’t a peep about those brute
tactics<http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/this-is-what-mob-rule-looks-like/>from
Obama’s blogging pals.

They sat quietly while Code Pink disrupted hearings on the Hill and harassed
Marine recruiters.

They looked the other way when ACORN illegally broke into
homes<http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/20/this-is-our-house-now-acorn-mob-begins-breaking-into-homes/>and
stormed
foreclosure auctions.<http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/28/health-hazard-acorn-mob-strikes/>

They gave their tacit approval to self-declared “bank terrorists” like
Boston housing entitlement organizer Bruce
Marks,<http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/27/meet-a-left-wing-housing-entitlement-thug/>who
show up at the schools of bank executives’ children and bullies them
because of their parents’ employment in the name of social justice.

Now, the taxpayers footing the bill for Obama’s redistribution of health and
wealth are silent no more – and the unhinged Left is beside itself. The
“thoughtful” left-wing response to the Tea Party counterinsurgency can best
be summed up by hysterical Hollywood actress Janeane Garafolo, who railed
last week: “F**ng redneck d**chebaggery. Unmitigated
d**chebaggery.”<http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/aug/01/janeane-garofalo-edinburgh-fringe>

It’s not the town halls that have gone wild. It’s the Tea Party-bashers who
can’t tolerate peaceful, open dissent.


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> They caught one already!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9bWqcZnrDg
>
> Brad
>
> On 8/5/09, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It gets better, now comes this ad -
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtTBkxvBq88&feature=player_embedded
> >
> > Now here's the real irony, most of the people attending these "health
> > care townhall meetings" find out about them by robo-calls from the
> > Congressmen's own mailing list. If there really is a VRWC (vast right
> > wing conspiracy) I think I would have received my check and invitation
> > by now.  The Tea Party movement is a real grass roots effort with no
> > leader, no organization, and no party affiliation.  Go to one and see
> > for yourself.  Republican members of Congress have been booed off the
> > stage and are seldom invited (and few dare attend).
> >
> > So, the White House wants you to report on "casual conversation".
> > Yeah, you bet your ass these "mobs" are angry.  Here's a newsflash;
> > they're just getting warmed-up!
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On 8/4/09, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Are these guys paranoid?
> >>
> >> http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/
> >>
> >> Before you go to the link, read this excerpt -
> >>
> >>       "Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White
> >> House, we’re asking for   your help. If you get an email or see
> >> something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy,
> >> send it to flag at whitehouse.gov."
> >>
> >> Hell, all anyone has done is play old YouTube videos of Dear Leader.
> >>
> >> First we get "Cash for Clunkers" which makes about as much sense as
> >> melting pots and pans to make steel in backyard furnaces during Mao's
> >> Great Leap Forward, now we get the Cultural Revolution's updated
> >> version of the Red Guard.  What are they going to do?  Sick the IRS on
> >> us?
> >>
> >> Forget that idea, you don't know what they might do.  After all,
> >> didn't Timmy say this weekend that "desperate times call for desperate
> >> measures"?
> >>
> >> Brad
> >>
> >
>
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