Right-Wing Shock Toops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work

[Parade Rain]

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The recent spate of town hall dustups may look like an overnight sensation, but they've been years, even decades, in the making.

Since the days in the late 1970s, when the New Right began its takeover of the Republican Party, it has cultivated a militia of white people armed with a grudge against those who brought forth the social changes of the '60s.

These malcontents have been promised their day of retribution, a day for which they are more than ready. Few seem to understand that they are merely dupes for a corporate agenda that will only worsen the conditions in which they live.

Why, you may ask, would men of power and fame shake the rough, unmanicured hands of gun enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists, gay-haters, misogynists and racists?

Because somebody's got to do the dirty work. Magnates don't like to soil their French cuffs, and it's hard for a bunch of rich guys to garner sympathy for threats to their bottom lines. It's the classic inside-outside game that the right wing of the GOP has played for the last two decades.
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This is a along article, worth every minute of your time:

http://www.alternet.org/story/141860/

[MintJulep]

Call it whatever you choose, we just don't want his shitty healthcare 'plan'. I'm just as mad about it as the people you see in the Townhalls and no one is paying me.

[Thai Kimchi]

Thanks much, Parade. That well researched article sure describes the sitch.

And as is always the case, those who would most benefit from reading it won't. They'll continue to yell "Seig Obama!" and remain the clueless pawns they've been since Reagan started running up the national tab like no tomorrow.

I love this part from the first page - it says all you need to know about this embarrassing behavior from the right:

Meanwhile, polls show a clear majority of Americans -- you know, regular Americans, the kind who don't want to own an AK-47, or who do accept the president's citizenship status -- favor the public option. In fact, in June, CBS News found that majority to be 72 percent.

So, whaddaya do? Well, if your lobbying firm counts former Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas, as its senior policy adviser, you don't have do much. Dick will take care of the rest through FreedomWorks, the ostensibly grassroots, nonprofit organization of anti-taxers, cold warriors and affirmative-action opponents, which he chairs.

Need to make it look like regular Americans oppose the health-insurance reform bills now being considered by Congress? Make sure a handful of those angry white people turn up at the town hall meetings now being conducted by members of Congress throughout the country. Make sure they disrupt the meeting and rattle the congressperson.

Capture it all on amateur video and put it up on a faux, amateur-looking Web site, and try to kid the media into thinking there's a widespread rebellion happening. After all, the media are gonna want that dramatic footage.

[SeniorChief]

This is a along article, worth every minute of your time:

http://www.alternet.org/story/141860/


AlterNet, a project of the non-profit Independent Media Institute, is a progressive/liberal activist news service.

Shove your Liberal propoganda, beaitch.

[Parade Rain]

AlterNet, a project of the non-profit Independent Media Institute, is a progressive/liberal activist news service.

Shove your Liberal propoganda, beaitch.

Feel free to scroll on past, cro-magnon man.

[SeniorChief]

Feel free to scroll on past, cro-magnon man.

Believe me - I am.

I never read your left-winged bullshit.

Don't you have flag to burn?

[Parade Rain]

I never read

Painfully obvious.

[Thai Kimchi]

Call it whatever you choose, we just don't want his shitty healthcare 'plan'. I'm just as mad about it as the people you see in the Townhalls and no one is paying me.

Fine, you have every right to be 'mad'.

But to suggest you and your 'mad' friends therefore have the right to abridge a citizen's rights of free speech at public forums because you're 'mad' is what is commonly called 'fascism'.

Why do you oppose free speech? Would you prefer we become like Iran or North Korea and be done with all this messy 'Democracy' and these dang town hall meetings? How about a Theocracy led by some 'religious' nutjob in the mold of Jerry Falwell or Ahmedinijad? Think that'll do 'er?

[SeniorChief]

Painfully obvious.

Yes, your communist leanings are Komrade.

[Parade Rain]

Yes, your communist leanings are Komrade.

Uh-oh! Better hide under the bed! roflmao

[SeniorChief]

Uh-oh! Better hide under the bed! roflmao

You do that Asroc.

[Zebulon0351]

Call it whatever you choose, we just don't want his shitty healthcare 'plan'. I'm just as mad about it as the people you see in the Townhalls and no one is paying me.

At least the people in the town halls are getting off of their asses away from the computer. Their voice is much louder than anybody who spends the majority of their time posting their Google results on political forums.

[MintJulep]

At least the people in the town halls are getting off of their asses away from the computer. Their voice is much louder than anybody who spends the majority of their time posting their Google results on political forums.If a townhall comes here, I will be there.

[Thai Kimchi]

If a townhall comes here, I will be there.

Did you miss the Tampa town hall? Glenn Beck's 912 Project folks showed up and shut it down.

Sorry you missed it. Pay attention.

[Zebulon0351]

I'm sure you would.. just making sure you are on the ball

[MintJulep]

Did you miss the Tampa town hall? Glenn Beck's 912 Project folks showed up and shut it down.

Sorry you missed it. Pay attention.I heard all about it. Since I don't live in Central Florida I didn't go.

[doctordog]

I heard all about it. Since I don't live in Central Florida I didn't go.

He probably skipped geography classes