Exploiting 9/11, Glenn Beck, Extremists And Corporate-Backed Groups Plan Anti-Obama March
Exploiting 9/11, Glenn Beck, Extremists And Corporate-Backed Groups Plan Anti-Obama March
This Saturday, right-wing protesters will gather in Washington DC for a march to oppose health reform and President Obama. The event, scheduled intentionally on September 12 to coincide with the anniversary of the day following the September 11 terrorist attacks, was conceived largely by Fox News’ Glenn Beck. However, most of the day-to-day organizing has been orchestrated by a now familiar set of lobbyists and Republican operatives who helped plan anti-Obama “grassroots” tea party events since February. In addition, a set of far-right groups are supporting the event, bringing along their members to join in on the Obama-bashing.
In the past, Beck has said he “hates” the families of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Nonetheless, Beck hosted a special program earlier this year announcing his initiative called the “9/12 Project” — an effort to ostensibly recreate the patriotic unity after the September 11 attacks. But far from calls for common ground, Beck explained that the purpose was to demonize his political opponents, declaring that his movement would “surround them.” He has also implored listeners to attend the rally because they “may be the only thing that stands between freedom and slavery.” The 9/12 project website, owned by Beck’s media company Mercury Radio Arts, directs readers to Beck’s radio newsletter.
While Beck and his allies in right-wing media have provided a platform of constant publicity and coverage for the march, FreedomWorks, led by former corporate lobbyist and Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), has turned the gears to make the event possible. The official website for the protest, 912dc.org, is owned and operated by FreedomWorks and most of the logistical work for the march is being coordinated from its offices in DC. Starting in August, Beck began directing viewers to the FreedomWorks website at the end of his Fox News show. Billed as a “grassroots” rally, the event is actually sponsored by organizations run by partisan GOP operatives and corporate front groups:
– Gold Sponsor Tea Party Patriots is a website run by FreedomWorks staffers. When Tea Party Patriots list serv members objected to the 9/12 march symbol, they were rebuffed and told that all final decisions were made by FreedomWorks.
– Gold Sponsor Our Country Deserves Better is a Republican PAC that also operates the Tea Party Express, a bus tour arriving in DC for the 9/12 march. Our Country Deserves Better/Tea Party Express, which has ran an advertisement comparing Obama to Hitler, is managed by the GOP consulting firm Russo, Marsh & Rogers.
– Bronze Sponsors The Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute are phony think-tanks dedicated to churning out academic-appearing reports to discredit global warming. Like FreedomWorks, both organizations are funded by David and Charles Koch of the Koch Industries oil empire, one of the largest privately held companies in the world.
– Bronze Sponsor American Conservative Union is run by David Keene, a lobbyist for a firm that represents private health care companies, including the insurer HealthFirst.
– Bronze Sponsor The Senate Conservatives Fund is a Republican Party PAC run by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).
Many of these groups — each of which paid up to $10,000 to FreedomWorks to participate as sponsors — were pivotal in providing assistance (talking points, event lists, signs) to attendees of rowdy town halls in August and anti-Obama tea party protests. Encouraging anger and intimidation against lawmakers supporting health care reform was part of the strategy.
But for the 9/12 march, there appears to be a shift towards a more radical coalition. The official sponsorship list reveals a subterranean, extreme element of the American right in attendance. The National Association for Rural Landowners, a bronze sponsor, references the incidents at Waco and Ruby Ridge to call for attacks on “government entities” and liberals. In a YouTube video posted in July, the group makes the case for a secession, followed by a violent civil war. Similarly, another 9/12 cosponsor, FreeRepublic, is a forum for various radical right causes. As ThinkProgress reported, the shooter at the Holocaust museum found a welcome audience for his writings on the website.
Despite the inclusion of such anti-government extremists, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA), and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) plan to attend and speak.
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I wish that this event had been publicized earlier.
I live in Florida, and I would have loved to be there, waving protest signs and throwing rotten fruit at those scumbags.
It’s already Wednesday evening, and a bit late to arrange a getaway to this charade.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:07 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Let me guess. The morons won’t be showing up with loaded guns on their person because Saturday is not a Presidential town hall meeting and they have to draw the line somewhere?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:12 pmThis is disgusting, how low will these fu-king creeps go. Exploiting death and destruction, the lives of over 3000 are turning in their “graves” at the thought of this monstrosity. Well perhaps the Earth will open below them and swallow them, it would be a fitting end to these anti-christ deceivers.
May they all rot in hell.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:12 pmGood idea Glenn. 9/11 was just waiting for the person daring enough to exploit it for personal gain. But how is he going to keep the crying jag going for 6-8 hours? Perhaps he can get a few stand-in teabagger-crybabies to spell him.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:12 pmGlenn Beck: “You know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims’ families. It took me about a year. Um, and I had such compassion for them and I really, you know, I wanted to help them, and I was behind — let’s give them money, let’s get them started, and all of this stuff. And I really didn’t — all the 3,000 victims’ families, I don’t hate all of them, I hate about, probably about ten of them. But when I see 9/11 victim family, you know, on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh, shut up.’ I’m so sick of them. Because they’re always complaining. And we did our best for them. And again, it’s only about ten.”
See folks. He’s not that bad. He only hates the victims who complain publicly about the government inability to prevent the worst terrorist attack in history. All they’ve lost is loved ones. How dare they?!
September 9th, 2009 at 6:12 pmgee, will rudy giuliani be there, too?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:13 pmDon’t these people have jobs, or are they just so lazy they have time to burn at faux protests? /sarcasm
September 9th, 2009 at 6:14 pmInteresting how they decide to celebrate the anniversary of the greatest failure of an administration’s sworn duty to protect both the American public AND the Constitution by complaining about another administrations attempt to protect the American public and restore the Constitution.
Makes you wonder who the real patriots are….
September 9th, 2009 at 6:15 pmAnd please show up in DC with your loaded semi-auto weapons. The capitol cops will be ready and waiting to throw your traitorous asses in jail.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:15 pmHow many of these “marchers” will really be employees of the health insurance cabal?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:16 pmDoes Dick Cheney really have a point about “keeping us safe after 9-11?” After all, using his twisted logic, there haven’t been any successful assassination attempts on JFK for nearly 50 years.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:16 pmtombaker says:
gee, will rudy giuliani be there, too?
In drag. He’ll be the one in fishnets and pumps.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:17 pmgee if only I could be there just to hit him on the head with a book (namely, a copy of the Constitution, since they seem to be such “experts” on it these days).
September 9th, 2009 at 6:17 pmThat red fist graphic looks like it’s from communist China!
The irony is so thick, I might pass out.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:20 pmGood, they will be in one place where, when they start violence, the government can make good use of those “FEMA internment camps”.
The government had best be armed with automatics, these people are violent extremists and very, very dangerous.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:21 pmbarfly says:
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tombaker says:
gee, will rudy giuliani be there, too?
In drag. He’ll be the one in fishnets and pumps.
LOL!! I’d pay anything to see that…
September 9th, 2009 at 6:21 pmwhat about joe?
will joe the plumber be there, too?
what about Slappy – Slappy wouldn’t miss it, would he?
it’s nice for the folks in DC to have some advance notice, so they can send their teenage kids out of town for the weekend.
are there even enough Cracker Barrel restaurants in DC to handle this?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:22 pmbarfly: “That red fist graphic looks like it’s from communist China!”
I’m sure you’ve heard that Grover Norquist used to keep a portrait of Joseph Stalin on his wall in his office because he admired the discipline of Stalin’s Communist Party.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:24 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Shall we just not give them any attention?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pmWhat a cult leader beck has turned out to be!
That fear kool-aid is more powerful than LSD.
Are they going to tatoo swastikas on their foreheads, or just dollar signs?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pmbaker56: “No one on the left ever seems to want to debate issues, just demonize people, but that what Mr. Alinsky taught us, isn’t it?”
Well, don’t cry about it. Offer up an idea to discuss or shut the hell up! If you’ve got a problem that isn’t an obtuse over-generalization, let’s hear it, cowboy.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:28 pmbaker56 says:
My GOD you are stupid and brainwashed. Rush programmed you to bring up Alinsky whenever possible and Chatty Kathy moron that you are you do so. Few lefties seem to even know who Alinsky is. You are a moron. If you want to debate then cough up a position or stake out an argument. Just parading your stupidity really isnt a basis for debate. You are stupid. No debate there
September 9th, 2009 at 6:28 pmIs your problem that we want to “demonize” poor little Glenn? Why would we want to demonize a guy who says he hates 9-11 victims and that he wanted to kill Michael Moore for making a movie about health care reform?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:30 pmApparently its legal to incite civil war if it is financed by the wealthy.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pmDoes anyone else feel that these guys are going to ruin themselves? No offense, but Bush’s exploitation of 911 really started to turn people off long before he was out of office. This is really starting to get ridiculous. First there were ‘Tea-Baggers’ then ‘Birthers’ and then ‘Tenthers’. Americans are giong to start to wonder what is wrong with these people. Then of course the ‘Controversial’ speech. WTF?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pmWhy is there never mention of the America Liberty Alliance at Think Progress. You would think that an organization whose director claims he founded the Tea Party Movement would deserve at least the occasional mention here at TP.
What is curious about this is the founder of America Liberty Alliance is responsible for several stalker blogs, including Olbermann Watch and Think Progress Watch.
These stalker blogs are responsible for some of the most egregious troll attacks on this blog. One of the contributors to both TPwatch and Olbermann Watch has recently bragged on his blog being responsible for the troll attacks that forced TP to bring in registration.
What’s up with the silence, is TP afraid to mention Eric Odom’s ties to trolls and stalker blogs out of fear of another troll invasion?
Inquiring minds would to know!
September 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pmbaker56
Your timing is off. First you call the libs every name every in the book and erect all the strawmen to your hearts content, THEN you play the victim.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pmbaker56,
what did you really expect to “learn” on a thread about glenn beck’s cashing-in on a national tragedy by pandering to a legion of racist dittoheads and feeding them corporate-lobbyist hot dogs in a parking lot in DC?
there’s no learning opportunity there,
and there’s nothing of substance to debate.
hey, wait a minute…
you’re one of those guys that tries to make it sound like wingnuts are “concerned and rational participants in the political process”, aren’t you!!?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pmbaker56 says:
No one on the left ever seems to want to debate issues, just demonize people,
Lets debate the Irony holding of a Rally on Sept. 12 ….in the spirit of National Unity…by Demonizing a President and the Voters who elected him in a Landslide.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:32 pmEugeneDebs: “Few lefties seem to even know who Alinsky is.”
I’ve been a liberal Democrat for over 30 years and I am not familiar with his work. I assume he called for radical civil disobedience from what the morons on the right have been hysterical about, but I don’t know for sure.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:32 pmcorrection: Inquiring minds would like to know!
September 9th, 2009 at 6:33 pmExploiting 9/11, Glenn Beck, Extremists And Corporate-Backed Groups Plan Anti-Obama March
– - Having been a teenager living in Chicago in 1968, I can only anticipate some serious skull-cracking.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:34 pmI dont know who Alinsky is. But how are these corporate funded hidden agenda rallies debate? And if the agenda is hidden, as it usually is with these corporate greedsters that are the cause of much of the taxes and debt we have, do you really think they are going to debate, openly, what their real goal is?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:34 pmTake my example Baker: Libs are baby killers! Libs want big government! Libs wipe their butts with paper bags and reuse it!
(later)
Wait, you liberals responded?
What are you, all against free speech?
All you libs can do is name call!
September 9th, 2009 at 6:35 pmBaker56: “Sob, sniff, choke…. you.. guys are just… sob, choke, blubber…. so mean! Blubber, sob… conservatives are so much… sob, sniff, nicer. Whaaaaaa!”
September 9th, 2009 at 6:35 pm***
#20,
“but seam to be written by 8th graders…”
many eighth graders know the the difference
between “seam” and “seem”.
*
but you don’t.
:)
September 9th, 2009 at 6:35 pmbaker56 says:
and have you offer up any good points to be discussed? I mean ones you though of and not found on a talking point site?
and oh yea i may not be able to have the proper grammar or spelling as i was just a avg. student in school, however in subjects i liked i excelled at.
so if you think you are making points cause you feel you are better then to some one who might not have had as good a eduction as you. so be it.
but you are the one who needs to start a real discussion but i think you are not capable of having a real conversion.
thanks
September 9th, 2009 at 6:37 pmWouldn’t it be great to go to the march with sign of Mr. Sleeping With the Lobbyists.
NOW there would be some good old Repug family values.
…Beck…speaking of sick pervos…
September 9th, 2009 at 6:37 pmWelcome to WaaStock,
3 days of rancor, bile, and treachery
September 9th, 2009 at 6:39 pmRemind the tourists to wear thick sunglasses for the sunlight beaming off all the tin-foil hats.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:41 pmJust think if Obama gets what he wants with health care reform. These guys heads will explode. After all that has been said and done. For the first time in our History, the citizens were so thoughly fed up with Republican rule that they voted for the First Black president in history. No offense, but that must of terrified these Righties to their core. Already look what he and the Democrats have done. S-chip. Lily Leadbetter Law, Sonia Sotomoyor… So when MSM and the Repugs tell you Obama is a failure, they are full of sh*t.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:41 pm***
#40,
they can hold that parade in the minneapolis-st. paul
international airport men’s room.
:|
September 9th, 2009 at 6:45 pmHey Pilotshark, one thing FOIA Ass is really steamed about is the guy who threw his shoes at Bush.
FOIA Gras says:
“It’s not a mere symbolic gesture, it’s assault. Assault is not protected speech.”
Lie to the public to start a war? OK. Demonize anyone who questions this war? OK. Kill a million Iraqis while getting over 4000 Americans killed and over 30,000 wounded? OK. Completely botch the possible capture or killing of the guy who actually did the 9-11 thing? OK.
Some schmuck throws his shoes at Bush? “It’s assault! Sob, sniff, choke, blubber…. assault is NOT protected speech!”
See how it works for somebody like FOIA grass? Pretty strange, eh?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:48 pmWhat do you want to talk about Baker56?
Taxes?
Taxes have been around for some time, during Bushs presiduncy, I didnt see these tea-parties. I dont think these tea-parties are for tac cuts for the people attending them, though they might believe they are. Bush increased the deficit in his term by some 4.79 trillion. I heard crickets during that time from the repulicans.
Big government? The government grew in size by some 35% during eight years under Bush. He also created yet ANOTHER intelligence community called the DHS. My moderate conservative neighbor, an ex intelligence person, calls the DHS Keystone Cops. I agreed.
Earmarks create debt and more debt means more taxes. Both political parties have porked out. I think their job is to create debt. They have no problem taking money from corporate groups and giving them a great return on their investment. trouble is they are giving them your tax dollars.
Koch?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:51 pmKoch is a fascist and wants Kaiser Koch to run America. All this ie about empowering Koch. Yes, he says he is saving America from communism. Now thats just silly, America isnt turning communist, in fact Russia isnt even communist. Its BS.
That reminds me – I signed up for the 10-31 Project months ago and haven’t heard a single thing from them.
How am I supposed to blindly follow a date-based spontaneous grassroots movement if it’s not leading me anywhere??
September 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pmBaker56 obviously doesn’t really want to discuss things. He just wants to cry big wet Glenn Beck-like tears over how mean and evil liberals are.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:53 pmTaxes? Glenn Beck says over and over that he wants to get back to the way things used to be.
OK, fine. In the golden age of conservatism, the 50’s, the top marginal rate was 91%. In the sixties it was in the 70’s. Let’s go back there, Glenn!
September 9th, 2009 at 6:56 pmNinerFan says:
I have the book they are all hysterical about. Rules for Radicals. I wasnt overly impressed. Think Machiavellis the Prince except written toward organizing and demographic power instead of excersicing raw elite political power
September 9th, 2009 at 6:59 pmAs despicable as this is, it is the common MO for the right. Whether it is 9/11 or the troops or “freedom” and “liberty” – as long as you are free to do what they want you to do. Good way to generically distract from any issue.
I can’t stand how Sarah Palin can put “… for out troops …” and “… freedom …” into every speech no matter the topic.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:59 pmSee? Another hypocrite.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:00 pmSeptember 12, 2009: The dumbing down day. Sigh… Wingnut day. Very sad that this country is running loose with right wing and uneducated loons that left the barn and won’t return and following the creator Victor Frankenstein news network.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:01 pmSo would it be inappropriate to celebrate September 11th with some injera and doro wat? It’s Ethiopia’s Independence Day after all…
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Is it me, or is anyone else also starting to see similarities between Glenn Beck and Joe McCarthy?
September 9th, 2009 at 7:05 pmwell, you know it will LOOK like a fabulous event and the troolls will be able to rub noses in it because with all the corporate backing and media friends it will get more attention than any lefty march ever…
gotta hand it to them…
September 9th, 2009 at 7:06 pm…
baker56: “Keep telling yourselves that we’re told to show up by the insurance lobby, or Glenn Beck, or anybody, just like the lefty politians did during August recess.”
Baker, it has been well documented by now that AFP and a number of other corporate lobbying groups have been providing money, organizing, buses and, yes, signs to protesters. Now, that doesn’t mean that everyone who goes to these events is paid by these lobbying groups. Many are simply hysterical tools, whipped up by these corporate lobbyists’ spokespeople like Glenn Beck. And, it should be obvious why this is happening. These lobbying firms work for the insurance industry.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:10 pmEugene @ #50: Thanks. Interesting.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:11 pmdoes anyone else remember this?’
Colbert tearily unveils his new “1031 Project”
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/colbert-tearily-unveils-his-new-1031
i “joined” at the time… i guess… could be just a joke…
haven’t heard a thing since…
the website is still up… http://www.the1031project.com/
September 9th, 2009 at 7:11 pmbaker56 says:
Keep telling yourselves that we’re told to show up by the insurance lobby, or Glenn Beck, or anybody, just like the lefty politians did during August recess. It makes for amusing reading!
September 9th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
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Oh, we don’t tell ourselves that. We just tell ourselves that you’re a bunch of deluded racist idiots who mindlessly parrot everything you’ve heard from deluded television idiots like Glenn Beck about socialism and death panels and birth certificates and other non-issues. And you never seem to prove us wrong.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:12 pmKaty: “well, you know it will LOOK like a fabulous event and the troolls will be able to rub noses in it because with all the corporate backing and media friends it will get more attention than any lefty march ever…”
Hey Katy. Remember when over a million people hit the streets to protest the war in Iraq and the major networks didn’t even mention it?
That’s the “liberal media” for you.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:12 pmAnd Baker56, I don’t think people believe you are being told to show up. I think people believe that you are a tool of corporate influence being fooled into showing up. There’s a difference. It might even be more pathetic than you think.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:15 pmIts going to be something when they attack government entities and the Bush conservative DHS comes down on them
September 9th, 2009 at 7:16 pmRepublicans were SO successful at running evertything,
that sharpies like baker56 just can’t wait
to get back to those good old days.
Right, 56 – those golden, salad days of 2000-2008, where we watched the blood spill and the money vanish, and the crooks lining up to fill their wheelbarrows??
September 9th, 2009 at 7:19 pmCorporate anarchist with elitist donor levels for their republican-run PACs…..
Waving the flag and the 10th amendment while crapping on our inalienable rights……..
I don’t see anything but angry, greedy, bigots.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:19 pmWhy would anyone show up for an insurance lobby funded campaign?
DO you really think they care about you?
But, hey, if you like being used for their agenda, taking more of your tax dollars thru subsisidies, then go ahead, but dint think for a minute they want your taxes cut because that wouldnt profit them. Think about it. They want governments [your] money if they cut your taxes it would cut the lobbyists profits.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:22 pmThey just can’t live with the thought that a black man and a black woman now live in the White House.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:25 pmokie dokie: “Waving the flag and the 10th amendment while crapping on our inalienable rights……..”
You’ve got to love a “tenther” who is a senior on Social Security and Medicare. When I look at their rallies, I see quite a few of them. It’s amazing what power racism has in our culture.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pmsweet!
the first ever “white trash march on washington”
September 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pmThis is just another staged event so that Fox can cover it and talk about this large grassroots uprising against Obama. In truth, it is a minor blip on the political scene. Most people won’t know or care about it. They have more pressing problems such as keeping or finding a job and various other financial matters.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:27 pmi would pay good money to see “joe the welfare queen not a plumber” speaking at the “taxpayer’s march on washington” being a scumbag who didn’t pay his taxes and all
September 9th, 2009 at 7:28 pmBaker we know you guys are so gullible all they have to do is pull your strings and you do what you are programmed to do. I have been to several lefty demonstrations. I spoke at an anti war rally. I have been involved in the organization of such demonstrations. NO corporations did ANYTHING for us. Volunteers got the permits. The money came from the grassroots organizations. I donated MYSELF. You act like the lefty demonstations are done the same way and that is flat out FALSE.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:32 pmNot trying to judge a book by its cover, or a company by its name, but this caught my attention:
That made me think of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater of the Air radio series waaaaay back in the 1930s (http://www.mercurytheatre.info/). Before my time, but their most famous broadcast was a dramatization of War of the Worlds, which convinced many gullible listeners that the Earth was indeed being attacked by Martians, resulting in widespread panic. Given Beck’s penchant for trying to stir up panic, I wonder if the similarity in name is just a coincidence.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:33 pmBeck is just one sick puppy and Fox allows him to spew his mentally ill rants. I don’t know who I dislike more, Beck or Fox.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:34 pmsomeone ought to clue weepy assed glenda becky in to the fact that his poster looks like a socialistic “worker’s unite” poster.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:35 pmDoes anyone know how I can get a venders license for shitass beer, scratch tickets, velvet Elvises, Applebee’s coupons, and a few foreign made flag pins. I am a self made man…
September 9th, 2009 at 7:35 pmWhen i was at a healthcare vigil last week the teabaggers outnumbered us 3 to 1, and most of them looked like they were ss and medicare age. I think they’re simply victims of Beck’s fear newsreels, and that old, cold war paranoia has come back with long repressed racism.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:35 pmI am thinking of calling my new small business kwsventures…
September 9th, 2009 at 7:37 pmwhat till the white trash hillbillies from glenda becky’s world get a load of washington hotel rates starting at 200 bucks a night now that congress is back in session.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:40 pmBozo @ 71 RAHAHAHAHAHA!
September 9th, 2009 at 7:41 pmp.s. I hate to break it to the wingnuts [they may want to cling on to their pearls on this bit of news] but President Obama won’t be in DC on Saturday. He be in Minnesota holding a rally on healthcare reform. So, the wingnuts, Beck, and others will have to make asses of themselves at their lovefest anti-Obama rally because the POTUS will be gone. Hat tip to TPMmuckraker.com:
President Obama will be hitting the road to campaign for health insurance reform, in a sign that tonight’s speech is going to be the opening round of a new wave of direct presidential involvement in the debate.
Obama will hold a rally for health insurance reform this Saturday in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The doors of the Target Center will open at 9:30 a.m. CT, with space given on a first-come, first-served basis, and no tickets required. The event will begin at 12:30 p.m. CT.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:42 pmFOX is not a news channel, its would be more properllt defined as a lobbyist/astroturf entity that serves to create and co-opt fake grass roots movements.
They have three or four major Lucys the Charlie Browns fall for every and ALL the time.
A: Anti-Abortion [the insurance bigs dont care about Grandma ergo they dont care about babies. Abortions probably save them money from childbirth and neo-natal care. After they are borm they surely dont care about that life. Money is GOD to them.
B: Tax cuts. The only tax-cuts the gNOp is going to give is to their 1% class and corporate donors. The talking point of 'Tax cuts create jobs' is a fib. Only eight million jobs were created during the BushII years.
C:Small government. Government grew some 35% during BushII years even though Grover Norquist [who made money off it] claimed he wanted to drown government in a bathtub. Grover wasnt for smaller government. It was another fib to keep the rubes bound together.
D: Deficits. The deficit grew by some 4.79 trillion during Bush years. He also fought his two wars of choice on emergency supplementals, which keeps the amount off budget, totalling nearly a trillion dollars.
E: This isnt a canard but shows how Bush helped to create Big Brother government with the patriot act. He also admitted to illegal wiretapping. From the gNOpers, the non-Fourhters,we heard a this crazy spin that “If you dont have anything to hide you dont have anything to worry about” Were they concerned with the constitution then? No. More crickets from the conspiracy loon deathers birthers baggers tenthers.
Wall street gave more money to Obama than McCain. I guess now wall street is socialist communists pinko muslim fascists..
I understand that people are concerned about taxes, debts, bigger government, but you are not going to change it by allowing corporate groups to divide and conquer the salus populis with this ridiculous demonizing. If you want to change gvernment your going to have to change the unelected DC consensus
September 9th, 2009 at 7:42 pmI think Beck took a week off because he was having a mental breakdown.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:46 pmchiroptera toasterhead says:
That reminds me – I signed up for the 10-31 Project months ago and haven’t heard a single thing from them.
How am I supposed to blindly follow a date-based spontaneous grassroots movement if it’s not leading me anywhere??
ha!
i know!!!
.
well… countdown to nervous breakdown…
c’mon mr. president…
my kids are getting married in a few months… i gotta cheer up here!
please don’t piss me off.
please. … for all of us… U.S.
…
September 9th, 2009 at 7:47 pmWow. The list of congress types who will attend and speak is like a Who’s Who of shitheads.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:49 pmi should note: countdown to MY nervous breakdown…
beck’s has been ongoing for some time…
September 9th, 2009 at 7:49 pm“Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA), and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) plan to attend and speak.”
hell, why don’t the suceed already and take whiny assed glenday becky with them.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:53 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
“How dare they!!!”
as in how dare they pretend their little snits are grassroots events? i concur 100% with that
September 9th, 2009 at 7:58 pmkwsventures says:
It is just astonishing how stupid you are. So then because THEY employ people to make THEM money that means they cant be criticised? You do know you are a moron right? You dont think they employ people as a public service do you? They make THEIR money off the sweat of workers. You are so brainwashed and so stupid it is mind boggling
September 9th, 2009 at 7:58 pmSeptember 9th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Qoute on #93 is from Charles Koch
September 9th, 2009 at 8:02 pmnasty corporation that employ so many citizens
September 9th, 2009 at 8:02 pm—
Oh those nasty community organizers and unions that try to protect those citizens….
Yeh, Exxon record [400Bn/qurter] profits didnt come from citizens
September 9th, 2009 at 8:03 pmThat nasty Koch, hates subsidies, citizen hirer, but then is happy they profit greatly form subsidies taken from citizens like he hires.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:04 pmkwsventures says:
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Oh, those nasty corporation that employ so many citizens. How dare they!!!
They can dare all they want. But a nation that puts its corporations above its citizens is a nation that’s doomed to fail.
I mean, at the very least, where will all those corporations get the citizens to employ? Oh that’s right, they go overseas or use automation. Much like what’s been happening since the 80s.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:05 pmYeh, this Koch lobby is in the citizens interests…
Riiiggghhhhhttt.
I have some magic beans for sale too!
September 9th, 2009 at 8:06 pmCan you spell Bhophal…
September 9th, 2009 at 8:07 pmSeems I can’t…
September 9th, 2009 at 8:07 pmBooPaul
September 9th, 2009 at 8:08 pmIt is the markets that create the demand and the workers that create the wealth. Corporations are necessary in NO WAY in this equation. If they werent there the creation of the products for sale would happen in another way.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:12 pmIt’s actually a clever bit of marketing by the Reichwing. By associating the event with 9/11 they prevent the sheeple from questioning the lies they’re being fed. Not that the sheeple are inclined to question their heroes anyway but, stamping it with “9/12″ will simply shut their brains off.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:13 pmwell, she finally did… seeing her man…
but i was worried for a minute…
something’s wrong – michelle was not smiling…
…
sounds like ed mcmahon is in the audience… ha!
here we go…
September 9th, 2009 at 8:17 pmJust to put things in perspective, Americans now consider 9/11 the most sacred day to commemorate, yet 12/7 is all but forgotten. On that day the US was attacked by a major world power, and it was a thousand times more ruinous than 9/11.
Not one American was unaffected by 12/7, and it played a large
September 9th, 2009 at 8:19 pmpart in turning the USA into the world superpower it is today.
Mathazar says:
yet 12/7 is all but forgotten. On that day the US was attacked by a major world power, and it was a thousand times more ruinous than 9/11.
I would disagree. I believe most people know about 12/7 and its significance. Most people have forgotten 6/6/44.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:53 pmWhy is Marsha Blackburn speaking? She has spent TRILLIONS of my tax money. She voted for the first bailout. She is the Queen Of Pork. I hope the tea party people yell at her to Go Home.
Economic Stimulus. H.R. 5140, the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, passed 385-35 on January 29, 2008 (Roll Call 25). It would provide about $150 billion in economic stimulus, including $101.1 billion in direct payments of rebate checks (typically $600) to most taxpayers in 2008 and temporary tax breaks for businesses. Creating money out of thin air and then spending the newly created money cannot improve the economy, at least not in the long term. (If it could, why not create even more money for rebates and make every American a millionaire?) The stimulus has no offset and thus increases the federal deficit by the amount of the stimulus because the government must borrow the rebate money. A realistic long-term stimulus can only be achieved by lowering taxes through less government and by reducing regulatory burdens. Marsha Blackburn voted FOR this bill.(Source: The New American – July 21, 2008)
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:02 pmShe is no conservative.
See her unconstitutional votes at :
http://bluecollarrepublican.com/blog/?p=614
Mickey
:-)
whew!
.
thank you, mr. president…
thank you.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:04 pmHi conservative guy…
September 9th, 2009 at 9:06 pmOops too soon…
Oh this dude is such a pervasive voice. I hope his doctoring was better than his public speaking skills…
September 9th, 2009 at 9:08 pmBut but but MickeyWhite, Reagan, the great conservative,along with Richard Cheney, said that deficits do not matter.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:09 pmoy…
the dems need a Fact Check Response to follow the (R) Response…
September 9th, 2009 at 9:10 pmI am for the reduction of debt as anyone else is, but dont forget that the 1.5 trillion is tax cuts didnt create jobs, in fact only eight mullion jobs were created during GWBs time in office.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:11 pmWay OT — what congresscritter heckled the President calling him a liar?
September 9th, 2009 at 9:11 pmhealthcare.gop.gov
what took ‘em so long!
.
omg! boustany has been sued for malpractice THREE TIMES!
HA!
September 9th, 2009 at 9:12 pm***
#55,
your spelling really,
really sucks.
:|
September 9th, 2009 at 9:15 pm116
September 9th, 2009 at 9:15 pmI believe that was pronounced “dot guuuvv” but I could be wrong…
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gTWB1M9VPOte4M77spW7Z62NsGyQD9AK4ULO0
South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” after Obama had talked about illegal immigrants.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:18 pm“it’s a lie”
- wilson, s. carolina
via keith, via AP
September 9th, 2009 at 9:19 pmOne would think the GOoPers would have shied away from Louisiana’s “finest” after the Jindal debacle. This guy wasn’t as bad as Jindal but…
September 9th, 2009 at 9:20 pmIf Obama would have been a republican none of this today would be happening.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:21 pm“you lie”… “it’s a lie”… either way – “lie”…
pretty strong there…
September 9th, 2009 at 9:21 pmOne has to wonder where Mr. Wilson gets his “facts”. FAUX “news” perhaps?
September 9th, 2009 at 9:23 pmYou gotta give the prez credit for speaking ability. Anyone the GOP tries to follow him with appears to be a robotic zombie.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:23 pmScarborough: “Whoever shouted out that the president was lying is a dumbass”
September 9th, 2009 at 9:23 pm***
#123,
joe wilson, s.c.
*
stay classy, gop.
:|
September 9th, 2009 at 9:27 pmThe amazing thing is that, even though our President just called them “liars” to their faces, the poor GOoPers will just go right on repeating the same lies in perpetuity. And the “librul media” will let them.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:27 pmPERSUASIVE
September 9th, 2009 at 9:33 pmRep. Joe Wilson, the clown from South Carolina, is the repiggie congress critter who yelled “You lie.” during Obama’s denial of the illegal immigrant treatment claim.
Rep. Joe Wilson is a proud strutting little fascist from South Carolina, home of one of the most screwed-up, hyper-moralizing, sexually promiscuous and utterly sleazy wings of the repiggie party.
Context is everything, especially in the case of a pathological liar like Joe Wilson.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:34 pmUM HELLO! Aren’t we ignoring beck? he won’t go away if we keep reporting on him. Join the Left and stop the free attention he is getting.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:35 pmBy the way, I watched Obama’s speech with my neighbors, a male internist and his wife, who was recently treated for breast cancer.
They told me that she refused surgery at the hands of a well-known cancer specialist because he is so full of right-wing bile and fury.
She said that she just couldn’t put up with all his arrogant swagger and snide political comments and jokes about Obama’s racial background while she was being treated.
She asked for another surgeon.
The repiggie surgeon had a shit-fit, because he felt that she maligned his reputation. She told others about his political tirades, and he called her a week after her surgery (performed by a different, non-ideological sugeon) to apologize.
She isn’t quite sure if he apologized only because he felt embarrassed. She has told all her women friends about his behavior.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:40 pmI think it was a good speech. He started softly and became bolder – even calling the anti-reformers out. I especially felt that his mentioning the letter from Teddy Kennedy and expounding on who Kennedy was – helped tremendously.
Interesting watching the snooty old white guys just sitting there. I hope all the Grandmas and Grandpas watched.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:48 pm***
there’s nothing like a klan rally
to get the inbreds all worked up.
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September 9th, 2009 at 9:49 pmI think the speech was a swipe at the crazies. But I also think that the speech was a shot at Baucus who is dragging his feet on the bill. It sounds like Obama is going to go to the rest of the Dems in the Senate to get a bill and it appears that it is going to be by reconciliation. Many of the things about the co-ops and public option are not going to be in the Baucus bill.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:52 pmAre they going to walk, or put on their helmets and spread their little monkey wings?
September 9th, 2009 at 10:01 pmI wonder if Joe Blow Wilson’s insurance will cover that bad case of parrot tourettes.
September 9th, 2009 at 10:08 pmApparently he came to Washington when Bush did, and is experiencing some kind of post traumatic stress syndrome if he doesn’t have dubya’s coattail to hold onto.
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Is it just me, or does that poster look a lot like this one (via Flickr) from the Communist era?*
Just sayin’ …
(*I’m sure there are others — in fact, I know I’ve seen one strikingly similar, but don’t have the time to do a good search. Maybe TP’s crack research team can get on it. :-} )
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u mad?
September 9th, 2009 at 10:58 pmI want Glenn to have another mock panel for his 9/12 crap to say how far our nation has fallen, because we don’t drill in the Gulf and so on. Then I want Glenn to get one of those big mirrors for himself to look into, so he can’t con the audience when we don’t see his reflection.
The nation rallied around Bush after 9/11, so why can’t Glenn Beck back Obama for even a half an hour? Would he lose first choosings of donuts and coffee at church?
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The red states are mainly the ones who receive more from the federal govt then they pay.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:05 pmaaronk says:
If conservative states succeeded, who would be left to pay for your s h i t?
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My GOD you are stupid. Conservatives states GET more taxes than they put out for the most part where the most liberal states GIVE more than they get back. Do you even understand how incredibly stupid and brainwashed you are?
September 9th, 2009 at 11:06 pmBush’s tax cuts didn’t go far enough, and he never saw a spending bill he didn’t like. That’s why he failed economically.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:06 pmaaronk says:
I am familiar with the local 912 group, and they are “funded” by no one, and are truly grassroots. This smear is just sad.
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Gee… you’ll just have to EXCUUUUUUUSE us if I don’t accept your word as Gospel on the funding sources of the 912 groups. Give us some SOLID PROOF and maybe we’ll take your opinion a little more seriously.
BTW, where do you get your talking points from?
Last night, on a healthcare thread, you posted the following comment:
aaronk says:
Great question. I would prefer a system where a NFP was established to provide health insurance to those who cannot provide it for themselves. I would put those who live under 125% of the poverty level for their area, and those who are being denied coverage into that category.
The NFP would be forced to operate at 90% efficiency (overhead can only equal 10% of it’s income), so that we don’t have to worry about crazy salaries, bonuses…etc, which upset so many people right now regarding the private insurance companies.
September 8th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
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Back in August you posted this:
aaronk says:
what would you think of establishing a nfp healthcare operation where all contributions were equal to a 100% TAX CREDIT (not just a deduction) obviously up to the amount of federal tax you paid to begin with. and using that money to purchase healthcare for those below 125% of their local poverty line (that is just the number that mathew 25 uses to determine who the treat for free) ?
I would propose that the NFP could have no more than 10% overhead to income ratio, strictly regulated and audited both publically and privately. What do you guys think of that one?
August 12th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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Sooooooooo… Aaron… where are you getting your Talking Points™ from?
Those are both comments you posted here, almost a month apart. With just small changes in the wording to make it look like you’re not just cutting and pasting. And yet they’re both too detailed and involved to be extemporaneous comments off the top of your head.
Sooooooooo… where are you getting your Talking Points™ from?
September 9th, 2009 at 11:07 pmSucceed?
Sadly, aaronk, conservatives rarely, if ever, succeed. Failure’s more their stock and trade.
For example, Red States are the biggest federal welfare queens.
By the way, I like the way you’ve dropped your civility and decided to come out snarling in these recent posts. It suits you much better.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:08 pmaaronk says:
Do have have any proof to back up your claim that conservative states pay more than they take?*
*It is a rhetorical question, because the only proof you have are the talking points you receive from the astro-turf spin machine
September 9th, 2009 at 11:11 pmnope, u?
September 9th, 2009 at 11:12 pmaaronk says:
but I know a ton of people who are interested in politics and oppose Obama, and not a single one of them gives a s h i t about his color. This is a tired talking point that just has no substance!!!
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Not a SINGLE ONE? Whoa… I’m… almost… impressed…
Yet another Bold, Sweeping Claim™ that cannot be verified…
As far as tired talking points…
Oh… the irony…
You’re not doing too well tonight, are ya, Li’l feller?
September 9th, 2009 at 11:12 pm*crickets*
September 9th, 2009 at 11:13 pmnope, but you don’t see me furiously typing triple exclamation points and spelling out swear words, am I?
lol
September 9th, 2009 at 11:15 pmSURE what we REALLY needed was more tax cuts for the Rich. THat worked out so WELL for Raygun then for Bush. Wait a minute. It DIDNT. The economy SUCKED under Raygun and tax revenues FELL for the first two years. Then Bush tanked the economy. It is so amusing to see people so stupid their answer for an economic crisis is LETS DO IT AGAIN JUST HARDER. Your brainwashing is impressive. Your ability for critical thinking non-existant
September 9th, 2009 at 11:19 pmEven the tax cut proponents working FOR Bush admit that tax cuts dont even pay for themselves much less bring in more money, and as a stimulus they are one of the least effective kinds of money distribution. Cons dont care. They have been brainwashed to carry water for the rich every time. They really dont care how bad it is for America.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/14/AR2006051400806.html
Okay, so let’s review this issue with the help of some experts. I’d like to cite Richard Kogan of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, because his work inspired this column. But to win over reasonable conservatives, I’m going to choose N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard, a proponent of tax cuts who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers in the Bush White House. Mankiw is a top-notch economist hired by Bush and Cheney to advise them. And last year he published a paper on how far tax cuts pay for themselves, reporting enthusiastically that this self-financing effect is “surprisingly large.”
September 9th, 2009 at 11:30 pmHow large, exactly? Mankiw reckons that over the long run (the long run being generous to his argument), cuts on capital taxes generate enough extra growth to pay for half of the lost revenue. Hello, Mr. President, that means that the other half of the lost revenue translates into bigger deficits. Mankiw also calculates that the comparable figure for cuts in taxes on wages is 17 percent. Yes, Mr. President, that means every $1 trillion in tax cuts is going to add $830 billion to the national debt.
Let’s engage in what Bush might call the soft bigotry of low expectations and cut Republicans some slack. Hey, maybe they just overlooked that Mankiw paper? Or maybe, despite hiring Mankiw to head the Council of Economic Advisers, they later acquired reasons to doubt his judgment? In that case they should at least have listened to Douglas Holtz-Eakin, another conservative economist who worked in the Bush White House and who went on to run the Congressional Budget Office.
In a study published under Holtz-Eakin’s direction last December, the CBO estimated the extent to which a 10 percent reduction in personal taxes might pay for itself. The conclusions confirm that the free-lunch mantra is just plain wrong. On the most optimistic assumptions it could muster, the CBO found that tax cuts would stimulate enough economic growth to replace 22 percent of lost revenue in the first five years and 32 percent in the second five. On pessimistic assumptions, the growth effects of tax cuts did nothing to offset revenue loss.
So Mankiw isn’t with them. Holtz-Eakin isn’t with them. Which raises a question: When top Republicans go around claiming that tax cuts pay for themselves, which economic authorities are they relying on? None, is the answer. These people’s approach to government is to make economics up.
The Republicans’ only argument is that tax receipts have boomed in the years since the 2003 tax cut. But the question is whether tax receipts increased because the tax cuts worked some kind of magic or because the economy was headed up anyway after the recession, thanks maybe to low interest rates resulting from the Asian savings glut. Friends, the reason we have economists is so that they can solve these puzzles for us. Ignoring their solutions is like ignoring the judgment of medical science in favor of faith healers and quacks.
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Rep. Charles Boustany, who delivered the GOP response to President Obama’s health care speech is a birther.
Guess the GOP didn’t vet him.
Check @ 20 seconds into the video
H/T: LGF
September 9th, 2009 at 11:31 pmGlenn Beck is a COLLEGE DROPOUT.
I don’t have anything else to say that pretty much sums it up.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:32 pmaaronk says:
You are so stupid it is just monumentally embarassing. If the point is they have less people then they would NEED less money too right? Logic really is a foriegn concept to you. I am just astonished at how stupid you are.
In the top twenty of per capita taxes paid there is ONE RED STATE that is Wyoming the rest are blue states. Why not for once in your pathetic life you try something new like having some dim idea what you are talking about
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_tot_tax_bur-total-tax-burden-per-capita
September 9th, 2009 at 11:34 pmaaronk:
I am still waiting for your proof that red states pay more to the fed than they receive back.
Why can’t you admit you got caught telling another lie?
September 9th, 2009 at 11:34 pmI trust all the editorial that you’ve writen (sp) were purely your original thoughts?
You didn’t advance someone else’s ideas without crediting them, the way you dishonestly did with conservative charity-hater Richard E. Ralston, did you?
I know how you can get.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:42 pmReggie says:
Dont hold your breath while waiting
Aaron do you get yet how out of your league you are here? You are stupid and brainwashed. Your talking points are easily shredded. We mop the floor with you because you regurgitate what you are told to beleive and because you have made up this delusional fantasy in your head. You just spew out anything that agrees with your delusions and think they become true when you say them because that is the way the screechmonkeys on the radio who do your thinking for you do it. THIS however is the reality based universe and facts, truth, reality itself just isnt on your side
September 9th, 2009 at 11:43 pmWell, if it isn’t Aaronck the Dog Licker still here. Where’s that life you said you had little buddy? Late last night, all day today and still here. You are truly a pathetic piece of shit.
And a dog licker to boot. Your mother would be ashamed.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:53 pmaaronk says:
The federal government forces spending down the throats of all states, but conservative states are typically less populated, therefore contribute less in income taxes. Areas like Chicago, New York, LA…etc have huge populations paying income taxes.
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What a silly rationalization.
STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERIKE TWO!
September 9th, 2009 at 11:54 pmaaronk:
It appears that Trollspotter called you out for plagiarism.
That would make you a thief as well as a liar.
What say you, aaronk?
September 9th, 2009 at 11:57 pmaaronk
September 9th, 2009 at 11:57 pmIt is okay. You are in a safe place among friends…
aaronk says:
I’m doing fine Republic. You are the one calling conservatives racist…
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No, I didn’t. Reading comprehension problem on your part?
All I did was say I DON’T BELIEVE IT when you say: NOT A SINGLE ONE…
100%??? Not a SINGLE ONE OF THEM???
STEEEEEEEEEEEERIKE THREE!
YEEEEEEEEEEEER OUTTA HERE!!!!!!!!
Heh… it’s kinda fun doin’ that… :-)…
September 9th, 2009 at 11:58 pmtombaker says:
are there even enough Cracker Barrel restaurants in DC to handle this?
September 9th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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Nope. None, actually. The nearest ones are in Manassas and Dumfries. Though it would be fun to see a bunch of teabaggers at Ben’s Chili Bowl….
September 10th, 2009 at 12:00 amdbadass says:
It is okay. You are in a safe place among friends…
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Thaaaaaas right… keep talkin’ to him, dbadass… whilst I wander over and flip the lights offen fer a minnite… now… where’d I put that bag fulla doorknobs down?
September 10th, 2009 at 12:02 amAwwww, now, you guys! Don’t be so darn mean to our little Aaron! I’ll just betcha that some of his very bestest friends are (shh!) black!
Aaron, why don’t you just go away? We’ve heard everything you have to say many many times already, and frankly, you bore us to tears.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:08 amNot only is Rep. Boustany a Birther — he’s one of the original co-sponsors of the dreaded death panel section of the health care bill!
Strike Two
H/T LGF
September 10th, 2009 at 12:10 amAren’t the people complaining about conservative sponsorship for a conservative event doing so on a blog that is sponsored by left wing organizations (Center For American Progress)? The Hypocrisy is hilarious.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:15 am***
#176,
you’re here aren’t you?
hilarious.
:)
September 10th, 2009 at 12:19 amgee… wonder why the trooll isn’t hangin’ at the
September 10th, 2009 at 12:20 amGOP Lawmakers Treat President Obama’s Joint Address
To Congress Like A Town Hall Protest
thread…?
RP2012 says:
Your STUPIDITY is hilarious. There is no hypocrisy. This site is not pretending to be what it is not. HAD TP organized demonstrations had a major network publisize them and STILL claimed it was all grassroots THEN you would have a point. As it is you just show how stupid you are. That by the way would be breathTAKINGLY stupid
September 10th, 2009 at 12:25 amRP2012 says:
The Hypocrisy is hilarious.
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And the complete lack of comprehension on your part is equally hilarious.
No one disputes that people like Soros fund this site.
Those asinine right wing “protesters” keep desperately trying to pretend they’re some sort of indigenous, grass-roots uprising, no matter how many times their corproate backers get outted.
Like I said above, the complete lack of comprehension on your part is truly hilarious.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:28 amGee… funny coinkidink…
Li’l aaron’s talking points completely run outta steam, and this vile li’l puff adder slithers in… jes’ sayin’…
September 10th, 2009 at 12:29 amI’m sure these “protestors” will be out in full force.
Both of them.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:35 amThe Milling MadMan March? Dang, maybe the resolution will be televised after all – oop, that was supposed to be revolution, wasn’t it?
Their agenda looks like a true grind; a large wad of speakers who are legends in their own minds.
I think I’ll pass on it.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:05 am.
Where’s the counter protest of the anti-Obama/health care crowd…
… On Sept 13?
Who gets Sept 14?
15?
Is it getting silly enough?
YET?
.
September 10th, 2009 at 2:26 amaaronk says:
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are you guys serious…please turn your brains on for a second. The federal government forces spending down the throats of all states, but conservative states are typically less populated, therefore contribute less in income taxes. Areas like Chicago, New York, LA…etc have huge populations paying income taxes.
Again, basic math dispels this. There are more conservative states than there are liberal ones, and the government treats them equally. So even though “Chicago, New York, LA” are huge cities, the combination of the states of Lousiana, Montana, Texas, etc either match or outweigh them.
September 10th, 2009 at 4:45 am@ 138, aaronk says: (quoting someone else)
Billed as a “grassroots” rally, the event is actually sponsored by organizations run by partisan GOP operatives and corporate front groups:
Aaron goes on to say; The irony of comments like this on thinkprogress.org, which is funded by George Soros and moveon.org is stunning. I am familiar with the local 912 group, and they are “funded” by no one, and are truly grassroots. This smear is just sad. (posted at) September 9th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
That’s just wonderful for you, AaronK. I’m familiar with our state 912org sponsor and they’re a pack of carpetbaggers with two exceptions. They’re so small that they list two interns on their staff list; one is a local kid who attends college in another state and the other is a local high school kid. All the others had careers somewhere else before arriving here.
I haven’t looked at any of their papers and postings, but from the titles, I’d have to say that they’re all ‘big picture’ astro-turfers; they have little or no interest in local and regional issues, regardless of the fact that this state has a lot of federal interaction that they could whine about.
They’re just trying to bootstrap back to the big show in WDC and NYC, or maybe the left coast if there’s anything left there after the crater quits smoking. There’s one or two that might settle for Chicago, but that’s pretty iffy; UChi does have that righty faction in their economics school, but getting an adjunct professorship or research assistantship there is probably not a prize that goes to folks who went over the crest of the hill a few years ago.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:34 pmI say we start a movement to send Glenn Beck some tin foil hats… the one he’s got is letting the voices through.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:29 pmLet Beck have his day. Like Sarah Palin, more than anything he craves the spotlight even if he has to distort and lie to get there. He knows exactly what he is doing-deceiving folks-and laughing all the way to the bank. Like all the other multi-millionares on Fox, he’s tapped into a market that convinces people that they are victims and keeps them tuning in for the next “proof” of it. It’s the biggest con game in town and more and more people are onto them as Beck takes it to a whole new level.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:31 pmPlease help those of us in Tennessee who have to suffer under the non-representation of Marsha Blackburn. She is not only attending and speaking, she is a C-Streeter and birther and only represents the wealthiest TN County and Ft. Campbell, Ky (Clarksville, TN) soldiers.
The rest of us are in rural areas outside of Nashville all the way to Memphis. It makes me sick.
September 10th, 2009 at 2:27 pmOne thing I have done and encouraged others is to sign up for this 912 crap with fake credentials and skew their expected attendance.
September 10th, 2009 at 2:28 pmThe left needs to adopt 9/11.
September 10th, 2009 at 3:13 pmCall it ‘Dereliction of Duty Day’.
Why do you folks call yourselves thinkprogress when all you want to do is go backwards?
September 11th, 2009 at 12:27 pmPerhaps you can lay off the vitriol for a moment and remember that there were real victims who died that day.
September 11th, 2009 at 12:28 pmDo Beck and his zombie storm troopers know they are going to be protesting something that simply isn’t true? And how does a small minority of right-wing psychopaths surround anything but the drain? Circling, circling and down they go!!
Good luck to Mr. Beck and his imaginary friends and there phony outrage!
September 11th, 2009 at 2:09 pmOh, I get it. It’s o.k. to tolerate deficit spending when a REPUBLICAN is in the white house, but now that theres a Democrat who is also african-american in the white house suddenly the deficit spending is such a big deal. Gotta love Repub hypocrisy!
September 11th, 2009 at 4:15 pmThank you for your sharing.!
September 13th, 2009 at 11:24 amNor does it take into account the ‘depleted’ uranium used as munitions (which, despite what you might infer from its name, is actually enriched — it is depleted of the less radioactive isotopes). That causes enough pollution to contaminate our armed-forces personnel before it’s even fired! Let alone the land where it is unleashed. vajina daraltma
September 15th, 2009 at 8:08 am