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Rachel Maddow takes a look back at the history of fake-grassroots protests that have been orchestrated by the GOP in the past, and the debacle that was the "Brooks Brothers Riot" during the Bush v Gore 2000 election recount.
History of fake-grassroots protests that have been orchestrated by the GOP
Seeded on Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:04 AM EDT
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The GOP are a dirty bunch of SOBs. They'll do anything to destroy America just to line their pockets.
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#1 - Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:08 AM EDTthe great thing about elitist is they think there way is the only way. Because a few citizens have started to read the health care bill and are scared lets blame the GOP.
I do not belong to the GOP (republicrate party or the Progressive socialist party).
seems to me there is a double standard though. the Libs like to line the pockets of Unions, Acorn and other social motivated corps.
is that not the Pot calling the Cetle Black.
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Because a few citizens have started to read the health care bill
Uh, if by read you mean ate up the slop that Beck, Rush, & Hannity put in their food bowl - then yeah.
Please don't pretend that an informed protester is one who would say, "Keep the government away from my Medicare."
These are GOPbots.
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Spirit - Please explain your logic about double standard. For someone who claims with his blog name to be more American than those on the progressive side you seem to come out in support of right wing elitism (Rush, Glenn, Hannity, . . . ) and tactics used by anarchists. And typical of so many of the anti-Obama crowd, instead of using facts and rationality, you use name calling. That's first grade stuff.
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Ron
i never claimed my name to be more American than those progressives.
by the way the name is about the faith and willingness ti fight for what they believed was right, and that would be freedom.
you seem to come out to support of right wing elitism and tactics used by anarchist.
are you serous a anarchist? No i would be a constitutionalists. do you even know what that document means or does it mean what ever you want it to mean?
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spiritof1776
You should be the spirit of remedial reading. Seriously bro, sound it out. Then spell check.
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the great thing about elitist is they think there way is the only way.
So, then, tell me - what makes an elitist? Is it money, or is it education? Also, I think you meant "their" and not "there"
is that not the Pot calling the Cetle Black.
If you're attempting to insult, at least spell it correctly. It is kettle, not Cetle.
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. It is kettle, not Cetle.
unless that's a Simpsons reference wherein a pot called Cletus the slack jawed local black?
- 1 vote
The GOP are an embarrassment to themselves and America.
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#2 - Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:39 AM EDTtom- I've seen your 'hypocritical/socialist rants' too many times on other posts to take you seriously. Please come back with facts and not wackiness made up by Rush, Glenn, Hannity, Coulter, Malkin, Palin and the minions of the health insurance industry who are the 'leaders' of the Republican Party.
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Making friends and influencing people, that's the socialist's modus operandi. Remember Obama said when you are hit, hit them back twice as hard.
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There's a few I'd love to hit twice as hard. It would actually be harder to back off once I started. Cheney's bad heart wouldn't get any sympathy from me. Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh would get extra special treatment. Didn't Hannity say he would allow himself to be tortured? I've got a few nasty tricks I'd love to apply to his___. Well you understand.
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The problem for Obama is that liberals usually cower when they face physical confrontation. These guys are paid thugs or they likely wouldn't be using physical force.
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There's a few I'd love to hit twice as hard... I've got a few nasty tricks I'd love to apply to his___. Well you understand.
Yes I do. Hypocrite!
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liberals usually cower when they face physical confrontation.
wow,
um, just,
wow.
cite?
and besides, what does your $h*t talking have to do with the fact that the GOP paid these people to fake an uprising?
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the fact that the GOP paid these people to fake an uprising?
Piad? I'm protesting, and I haven't gotten paid yet. Hey, where do I go to get my money. Since I'm protesting, I might as well make some cash. Got a link?
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psst: Fred, you may want to watch the video that we're discussing. There's a link right at the top of the page marked "read article"
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The problem for Obama is that liberals usually cower when they face physical confrontation.
Hmmm, so I guess Sean "Waterboarding isn't torture, sure, I'll do it for charity" Hannity isn't going through with it?
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Read? Many of these protestors would rather mouth off and disrupt public meetings than read what the issues really are about. And no, they are not what the right-wing radio nuts keep saying either.
"Keep your government mitts off of my Medicare." seems to be the battlecry lately. Uhm hate to tell you this but who do you think is running Medicare? Give you 3 guesses and the first 2 don't count.
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Piad? I'm protesting, and I haven't gotten paid yet. Hey, where do I go to get my money. Since I'm protesting, I might as well make some cash. Got a link?
You mean you want a welfare check? Isn't that SOCIALIST?!?!?!?!? You traitor!
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All comments deleted were off topic.
This topic of this forum is History of fake grassroots protests. If you can't stay on topic, please move on.
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water boarding is not torture Jones girl. its done daily to our men and women in the sevice.
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its done daily to our men and women in the sevice.
why?
to train them in case they're captured by an enemy and tortured?
No, It isn't. Where do these people get ideas like this? It's just an out and out lie yet they tell it so casually as if they even had such knowledge
L I A R
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LIAR
The Nazy does it in SERE school. If you are going to be in the air, you have to go to SERE school. SERE school waterboards.
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Since the contents of SERE training are CLASSIFIED SECRET, I wonder how you have this knowledge? Hmmm?
Further, what was your assigned duty that you got waterboarded?
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Navy, sorry. All I'm going to tell you is that if you are in the Navy and you fly anywhere in Asia, you will get the proper extensive training to survive, escape, evade. We don't have the best trained military in the world by accident.
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The lib-socialists call all who have reservations about Obamacare Nazis and anti-American. That is how they debate. That is how their massiah organizes a community. Isn't it ludicris for a community organizer to bristle when the community organizes.
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#5 - Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:22 AM EDTBill - your blind hypocrisy is amusing.
You just railed against labels like "Anti-American" for protesters and in the SAME sentence called Obama supporters "Nazis."
Why don't you go sit in the corner and work on a cohesive thought.
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...and in the SAME sentence called Obama supporters "Nazis".
I couldn't agree more, but Nazis are the group historically that most people have heard of and are synonymous with seizing a nation and instituting a Nationalist Socialist Party. Although, i must say that the Pay czar that Obama has put in charge of dictating to corporations a holy host of unConstitutional government plans has a job description remarkably like that of Hitler's pay czar and Union boss named Herr Ley.
Actually Obama's henchmen are less Nazis and more like the Wei hung Ping of Communist China in around I guess 1966 or so. Their devotion and the manner in which the President motivates and incites them...remarkable parellels. It is useful to remember that our current President is not the only Pathological Narcissist that has employed such tactics. Study Mao...
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Thanks, Tom for illustrating the ill-informed, hyperbolic nature of the town hall protesters.
Nazi, Hitler, Nazi, Hitler, Czar, etc, etc...
Must be exhausting having just two brain cells in your head duking it out over who gets to the last cheeto.
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Bill and people like them like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, David Duke, Tom Metzger and other Right Winger, Fundamentalist, etc. are anti-Semites. They believe Holocaust is myth. 6 millions Jews killed is a myth. The Nazis Party is start by Liberals who happen to be minorities
This is why Rush Limbaugh trying to associate Nazis with Obama and Liberals. He know about manipulating simple minded and gullible groupies and Right Wing Conservative Republicans. Years Ago, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the world Holocaust is Myth. Rush is doing it share in USA by associating Nazis with any one that is not a Right Wing Conservative Republican who happen to be White. People are believing it.
Rush next job is to preach that Holocaust is a Myth. Jewish People started all Wars and something about Conspiracy Groups of Jewish People take over the world.
This is why they associated Nazis with everyone but the truth face of Nazis. Even with all the history, eyewitnesses and documented facts about Germany of the Past and Nazis.
Remember the Rise of Nazis under Hitler and gangs have similar parallel to Right Wing Conservative Republicans tactics of today. It is almost like Right Wingers are reading literally from Nazis books in 1930's Germany.
The only thing left: Heil Limbaugh, Heil Cheney, Heil Palin, Heil Hannity
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Invisible
Well I realize that nobody in here could possibly ever compete with you in a head-on debate on any subject that requires facts regarding history, geopolitics, nor have such an eruditious observation and approach to this issu as you. We are merely stumbling blindly through this subject while relying wholly on your saavy and acumen.
I wonder if he is perceptive enough to recognize sarcasm when he sees it...
The fact that some liberals in here suffer from delusions of adequacy is well-demonstrated in this fellas posts.
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Time to move on folks. We've got Tom, Bill, and spirit ranting on here with their name calling, lies, and disinformation. I'm going to move on to try to find if there are any on the right who actually have honest, logical arguments. Let these guys rant among themselves. . . they'll feel better being left alone.
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#6 - Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:48 AM EDTI'm going to move on to see if there are any on the left who actually have honest, logical arguments.
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Ron
You like to miss represent don't you? In post #1.25 i came back to you with a logical and honest question. It seems to me that you seem to have issues with logic,reason, and honesty.
in the words of Motly Crue "don't go away mad, Just go away"
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a. that was 1.5
b. no that was a childish question
c. I sincerely doubt you understand that document. You may have learned the words by rote - the lowest form of learning, you may even understand how to manipulate the words but the higher form of learning, conceptualization, is lost on you. NO, you are not a constitutionalist
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One question: If the Republicans think they are in the right, why do they try to disrupt the process? Isn't that an obvious sign that they know they are wrong and could not possibly win the arguement during a rational discussion of the issue? Democrats want to provide information and answer questions, while Republicans want to stop the process so nobody can learn anything. Gee, I wonder who has the better arguement?
If you were an eighteen year-old nearing your first vote and trying to decide which party to support, and you saw what was going on with this issue, how would you choose? It is situations like this one that allow Republicans enough rope to hang themselves. This issue provides a great contrast between the two parties and the way that they handle things. Provide information, or act like a thug and try to stop people from getting answers to their questions. Pretty easy choice if you ask me.
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#7 - Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:41 PM EDTOh no don't confuse the people with the facts all it will do is make them cranky and call the liberals names, oh the pain.
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#8 - Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:57 PM EDTCan we try this again? Let's stick with the topic and talk about the History of fake-grassroots. Sorry about some of the comments being deleted but they were part of a string.
#9 - Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:51 PM EDTCraigs list has job offers paying $400-$600 a week for liberals to organize and attend support rallies for Obamacare. Follow the money right back to the WH. I don't know of any protestors who are getting paid to oppose Obamacare.
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#10 - Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:07 AM EDTAbout time somebody brought up that fake riot in Florida over the chads.
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