It's official: This summer's mini-mobs were merely "noisy"
August 31, 2009 9:37 am ET by Eric Boehlert
As we sail into September, the rewriting the mini-mobs is all but complete. Thanks to the Beltway press corps which is both wildly impressed by GOP hardball and scared of the right-wing, along with its its nasty charge of 'liberal media bias,' the press has completely whitewashed the ugly, anti-democratic outpourings of hate this summer, where smears and misinformation were spread with abandon.
From today's Washington Post:
Conservative activists have dominated the public debate in recent weeks with dire warnings and noisy disruptions at town hall meetings, while national polls show declining support for Obama's ambitious plan to widen health insurance coverage.
Don't you just love the "dire warning" touch? It makes it sound like protesters actually knew what they were talking about, rather than wallowing in the paranoid right-wing fantasy that the federal government would soon be in the business of selectively killing old people. But that would made the protesters sound crazy, so the Post opts for "dire warning."
And the "disruptions"? I think there the Post is vaguely making reference to the fact that mini-mobs members purposefully made it, at times, impossible to have a public debate about health care. That some showed up waving swastika and Nazi posters, some arrived with loaded guns and others committed acts of vandalism. I think that's what the Post is referring to, although I'm not sure since the Post politely declined to detail any of the summer nastiness.
Reich-wing stupidity is indeed "noisy":
Oh geez and guess who is on her way to Asia this month- none other than Sarah Palin. Maybe she will address the American wingnut concerns of 'YOUTH IN ASIA' and Grand Ma
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/31/sarah-palin-asia-trip-pla_n_272493.html
It's still a different league from spelling "euthanasia" as three words which have a distinct meaning all on their own. Even if you don't know how to spell it, the concept you're expressing in those three words is clearly not correct. That's just a little bit over the line of credibility for me, where I have to think those are Democrats trying to make health care opponents look stupid.
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Really?!?
Maybe it is the scare tactics that are getting these people motivated, and the intelligent people who know how to read plain language in the legislation find no reason to worry... but I forgot, the right-wingers also cried about being called "fear-mongers"...
You cannot have it both ways.
A bunch of people show up at a certain time and place and put on an act.
I guess the "dire warnings" are kind of like the whole "TARP is going to bankrupt the government". I guess that, so far, the fact that the tax payer has earned an average of 15% on loans that were made to banks means we are heading down that dark hole.
BTW, Yes, I know we could have made more, if we had paid less for the stock, etc. And, we could still lose money on the whole deal (BOA, Fannie-Mae/Mac) but the idea is that we haven't bankrupt the government.