Fake protests shame America
August 4th 2009 02:41
Recipe - take one hot button issue, add professional lobbyists, spin doctors, and media blowhards, stir into a batch of ill-informed ditto-heads, and cook until boiling. What do you get? Tea parties! "Protests" against "socialized medicine!"
Or take a few dozen fundamentalists, tell them health care reform will mean hit squads going to retirement homes to off grandma, add some Hannitization, and bake until brain dead. Then mix together a slop made from fake statistics, lies about how horrible health care is in other countries, some Ann Coulter wisdom, and some Glenn Beck Cocoa Puffs, and pour into the empty head. Same result.
What is it, pray tell, that so easily encourages the moronic minions of the right to so often and so vociferously go against their own self interests?
Look at these so-called "counter-insurgencies" - as called by the ever lovely Michelle Malkin, and ask yourself, do any of these people even know what they are protesting? I mean really, do they know what is being proposed, or did they just read the talking points before a hoppin' on the dang 'ol bus and headin' to the protessin?"
It's come out that they are scripted by big money lobbyists, just like the tea parties. The "angry mob" is given direction on how to make their numbers look bigger by spreading out and sitting up front. They are told to shout and shout and shout, trying to intimidate the speaker instead of asking any questions they might have. Of course, they don't have real questions, the talking points told them specifically to stay away from "intelligent conversation." Shouldn't be hard for those groups....
Like the Flagellants of the Middle Ages who went from town to town whipping themselves to a pulp in order to satiate God, these flame throwers actually spread ignorance.
And yes, they are a national embarrassment. They show America to be a country in which it just might be impossible to hold a civil public debate unless the fundamentalists agree with the speaker. No real questions, no real issues to discuss, just raving fear. What are they so afraid of?
Say we got what I want, a universal single-payer health care system. And say it didn't work - do the numbskulls not realize that would mean a sure return to conservative power? Of course, many of them secretly know what progressives already know, that it will work. It works everywhere else in the developed world. And it would work here.
The people showing up with nothing to do except disrupt the meetings with absolutely nothing to contribute and nothing but fake and/or ginned up rage are doing as much to marginalize themselves as they are to fight health care reform. And they are a laughable disgrace.
Or take a few dozen fundamentalists, tell them health care reform will mean hit squads going to retirement homes to off grandma, add some Hannitization, and bake until brain dead. Then mix together a slop made from fake statistics, lies about how horrible health care is in other countries, some Ann Coulter wisdom, and some Glenn Beck Cocoa Puffs, and pour into the empty head. Same result.
What is it, pray tell, that so easily encourages the moronic minions of the right to so often and so vociferously go against their own self interests?
Look at these so-called "counter-insurgencies" - as called by the ever lovely Michelle Malkin, and ask yourself, do any of these people even know what they are protesting? I mean really, do they know what is being proposed, or did they just read the talking points before a hoppin' on the dang 'ol bus and headin' to the protessin?"
It's come out that they are scripted by big money lobbyists, just like the tea parties. The "angry mob" is given direction on how to make their numbers look bigger by spreading out and sitting up front. They are told to shout and shout and shout, trying to intimidate the speaker instead of asking any questions they might have. Of course, they don't have real questions, the talking points told them specifically to stay away from "intelligent conversation." Shouldn't be hard for those groups....
Like the Flagellants of the Middle Ages who went from town to town whipping themselves to a pulp in order to satiate God, these flame throwers actually spread ignorance.
And yes, they are a national embarrassment. They show America to be a country in which it just might be impossible to hold a civil public debate unless the fundamentalists agree with the speaker. No real questions, no real issues to discuss, just raving fear. What are they so afraid of?
Say we got what I want, a universal single-payer health care system. And say it didn't work - do the numbskulls not realize that would mean a sure return to conservative power? Of course, many of them secretly know what progressives already know, that it will work. It works everywhere else in the developed world. And it would work here.
The people showing up with nothing to do except disrupt the meetings with absolutely nothing to contribute and nothing but fake and/or ginned up rage are doing as much to marginalize themselves as they are to fight health care reform. And they are a laughable disgrace.
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Comment by Howard
Real Crash
Don't wait till after midnight....