Here's Jonathan Martin's* item in full, where he seems to suggest there's an unfair connection being made by Democrats between birthers and those forming the health care mini-mobs [emphasis added]:

Senate Whip Dick Durbin, leaving the White House on message, says it directly:

“These town hall meetings have been orchestrated by the tea baggers and the birthers to just be a free-for-alls, make a lot of noise, go on YouTube and show discord,” said Durbin. “I mean that is what they are determined to do. But that is not going to accomplish what we need to accomplish: real health care reform.”

I suppose the only question is, what's the meaning of “orchestrated”? Because as Media Matters has clearly documented, right-wing media voices who have been central in pushing the birther nonsense have also been central in promoting--in orchestrating--the town hall mini-mobs: Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage. They all ran to the head of the birther line and now they're all running to the head of the mini-mob line.

In fact, on his radio show Wednesday, Savage and his delusional birther guest stressed how activists should use the town hall forms--how they should form mini-mobs--to drive the birther message. And let's not not forget that the current wave of birther mania was kick-started by a GOP mini-mob that hijacked a GOP town hall meeting in Delaware and turned it into a raucous birther rally.

*Politico's Martin wrote the “conflation” post at Ben Smith's blog and I originally attributed this item to Smith.