Much like Joe Wilson’s apparently not so unusual outburst during a presidential address, the furor over Florida Dem Alan Grayson’s remarks about Republican’s wanting sick people to “die quickly” aren’t exactly dying quickly.
In a bit of apparently unplanned comedy on Wolf Blitzer, Republican Strategist Alex Castellanos dismissed the debate, saying “There are fringes and nutjobs on both sides…”
Blitzer interrupted, “Hold on, he’s coming in right now,” as Grayson entered the studio.
Even the not-notoriously-conservative Wonkette had some choice words for Nancy Pelosi, after the House speaker defended Grayson.
It’s like, why should Alan Grayson apologize when other people—SUBTEXT: Republicans!—also have things to apologize for? How is that even democracy??
“If anybody’s going apologize, everybody should apologize,” Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference. “We are holding Democrats to a higher standard than their own members.”
Oh and the Democrats want to socialize apologies now too.
You remember Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida. A month ago, he was taking refuge in a union hall to shill for Obamacare in a cowardly last-minute meeting with angry constituents.
As you know, he has now traveled down Demagoguery Road and accused Republicans of wanting sick Americans to “DIE QUICKLY.”
The diarrhea of the mouth continued yesterday with Grayson trashing his political opponents as “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.”
Michelle neglects his non-apology issued Wednesday:
“I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t voted sooner to end this holocaust in America,” he said.
Look, I really don’t want to get into the anti-Neanderthalism, though I think it’s deplorable we can’t have a political discussion without people resorting to overt species-ist attacks.
But if being a Neanderthal is something that they want to disparage with partisan cheapshots, then homo sapiens though I may be, I will stand shoulder to shoulder with my theoretically extinct low-browed slope-shouldered fellow hominids.
I am a Neanderthal.
Say it loud, say it proud. I AM A NEANDERTHAL!
I’d also like to congratulate Grayson on all the free national publicity he’s getting. Not bad for a coconut-brained baboon from Disneyworld.
Could it be the right wing media is happy with a Jon Stewart monologue?
Could it be the “liberal” Jon Stewart, who closed his season with a no-holds-barred slam-fest against Fox News coverage of government protesters is praising Michelle Malkin?
Okay, so Stewart can’t bring himself to openly say something positive about Malkin, but he clearly swings out against the mainstream media for completely missing the boat on the ACORN prostitution sting videos.
“I’m a fake journalist and I’m embarrassed these guys scooped me,” the entertainer says (5:36) about the ACORN videos’ producers James OKeefe and Hannah Giles. “You don’t have to tell people you’re a white guy. Your pimp outfit is a chinchilla coat over your Andover uniform.” (5:02)
While O’Keefe and Giles travel the country, stinging ACORN offices in Baltimiore, DC, New York and San Diego, the government is cancelling grants and Census contracts, the media is playing catch-up to newbie site BigGovernment.com that funded the nationwide undercover investigation with $3,000.
Even Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey has something positive to say about Stewart.
Kudos to Jon Stewart, who doesn’t sugar-coat the embarrassment at all. … How can the national news media ignore the many allegations of corruption at ACORN, which gets millions of dollars in federal funding, and allow a couple of independents with $3,000 and a bad wardrobe scoop them on the undercover story of the year? It’s easy when newsrooms are more concerned with political direction than truth. Stick around to the end, when Stewart zings Michelle Malkin haters.
“Strange bedfellows this day makes. I can’t imagine what 2012 will bring,” Mojave Mark commented on Morrissey’s page.
Mike Flynn, editor-in-chief of BigGovernment.com told the right-wing news site Human Events.com that more O’Keefe videos are coming, so it’s likely the pressure against ACORN will continue to mount.
Because if you are, here is an advisory: as of this moment, if the Right catches you or your staff within 100 yards of an ACORN office or worker we will cheerfully crucify you with that organization. And by ‘crucify’ I mean “take the metaphorical and rhetorical equivalent of long iron nails and permanently attach you to ACORN with them.”
Radio personalities Don Wade and Roma from WLS AM in Chicago interviewed ABC News Anchor Charlie Gibson about the ACORN video scandal and got this clip:
Don: Okay, here’s my news question. A Senate bill yesterday passes, cutting off funds to this group called ACORN. Now, we got that bill passed and we have the embarrassing video of ACORN staffers giving tax advice on how to set up a brothel with 13-year-old hookers. It has everything you could want – corruption and sleazy action at tax-funded organizations and it’s got government ties. But nobody’s covering that story. Why?
Gibson: HAHAHAHAHA. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. Uh. Uh. But my goodness, if it’s got everything including sleaziness in it, we should talk about it this morning.
According a breaking news report from Andrew Breitbart (via @NewsFifty), whose site originally exposed ACORN’s attempts at providing legal counsel to a “prostitution ring,” ACORN has decided to suspend its operations due to “indefensible” behavior by employees at chapters around the U.S. The group, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is currently under investigation by many states, including Louisiana and New York, for their questionable behavior and according to the Breitbart report, have begun to execute “an independent review to see what happened.”
ACORN chief executive Bertha Lewis said in a written statement that she was “ordering a halt to any new intakes into ACORN’s service programs until completion of an independent review.”
Lewis concedes that this sort of illegal activity is only conducted by “a handful of employees,” ignoring the years-long speculation of inappropriate behavior from government watchdog groups and conservative political analysts, such as John Fund and Michelle Malkin.
The U.S. Senate, who since 1989 had been supplying grants to ACORN totaling $53 million, voted 85-7 to end federal funding for the non-profit. The bill, HR 3228, was proposed by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE), with 14 co-sponsors (all Republican). This measure comes after months of pressure from Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) who proposed legislation cutting off ACORN’s access to federal coffers as early as February 3, 2009. ACORN is headquartered nationally in Sen. Vitter’s hometown of New Orleans.
Those who voted against ending federal subsidy for ACORN (six Democrats and one Independent) include:
Sen. Burris (D-IL)
Sen. Casey (D-PA)
Sen. Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Gillibrand (D-NY)
Sen. Leahy (D-VT)
Sen. Sanders (I-VT)
Sen. Whitehouse (D-RI)
Yet another bill passed to permanently end federal funding for ACORN. HR 2996 passed Thursday, September 17, 2009. In the Senate, the vote was 85-11. In the House, the vote was 345-45. Check out how the votes were cast here.
Americans shouldn’t be too quick to feel relief at the suspension of ACORN activities. Their council, who will establish an independent review board to scrutinize their operations, is made up of liberal allies from special interests deeply invested in the Democratic Party. The most influential of these include John Podesta of the leftist group, Center for American Progress and Andrew Stern of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), an organization who has for years partnered with ACORN on political activism.
In addition, she said, “ACORN’s independent Advisory Council will help select an independent auditor/reviewer no later than September 18th to review all of the systems and processes called into question by the videos.”
In early 2009, ACORN set up an independent Advisory Council to help put together a new management team under Lewis. Lewis was appointed to the job in the fall of 2008 after disclosure of a set of improper management decisions by the founder of the organization.
The Advisory Council includes John Podesta, president of the liberal Center for American Progress; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a former lieutenant governor of Maryland; Andrew Stern, international president of Service Employees International Union; Henry Cisneros, a former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John Banks, vice president of Government Relations Con Ed; and Eric Eve, senior vice president of Global Consumer Group, Community Relations, of Citigroup.
It could just be me, but to anyone else does it seem as though far-left liberals are frozen in a state of perpetual immaturity? And doesn’t feel like it is second-nature for them to lash out at someone who happens to disagree with their specific point-of-view with cries of ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’ or whatever ‘-ist’ you care to think of simply because they have no logical, let alone an adequate, response to it? And what is their obsession with identifying conservatives/libertarians with the Nazis and the KKK? Granted, some public schools are pretty bad, but they have to be teaching them some history, right? For full details, be sure to read Jonash Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism. In the mean time, however, here’s a refresher course: Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and banned smoking while the KKK and the mass majority of those who opposed segregation in the south were southern Democrats. This is not to suggest that liberals themselves are Nazis or former/current members of the KKK, which the exception of Senator Robert Byrd, of course. It is simply to say one should not always take what another person says at face value.
The first item on today’s list of topics happens to touch upon each one of those three exact points. Individuals who left the rather heated town hall meeting last Tuesday in Reston, Virginia with Representative Jim ‘I need to see some I.D.’ Moran and Howard ‘RGHHHH’ Dean were greeted at their cars with a flyer that depicted “opponents of socialized medicine and the Obama agenda” as nothing more then “Ku Klux Klan members who want to lynch Barack Obama.” A far-left Washington D.C. cartoonist named Mike Flugennock created the image. It seems as though someone is paying a little too much to Janeane ‘No Talent’ Garofalo and not enough to the actual facts.
Outside that very same event held at South Lakes High school, an opponent of Obamacare carrying a sign depicting President Obama as the ‘Joker’ was accosted by a black school security officer named Wesley Cheeks, Jr. The protestor was told he had to get rid of the sign and when he refused the officer threatened him saying he could “charge [him] with whatever I want to.” When the protestor points out pro-Obamacare drones holding signs and asking why he is not threatening them with trespassing charges, the officer makes up the lame excuse that his has a picture on it, as if that had anything to do with it. The protestor exclaims, “This use to be America” to which the officer snobbishly responds, “It ain’t no mo’, okay?” UN-BE-LIEVABLE!
Next we have some more race baiting, this time from Representative for the 33rd Congressional District of California Diane Watson. As Michelle Malkin points out, it is no secret that Rep. Watson is well accustomed to this sort of political practice. That said, however, what she said at a recent town hall event – undoubtedly packed with ACORN/SEIU thugs, like the one held by fellow California Representative Maxine Waters – was certainly pushing it.
Audio of Rep. Watson’s comments comes courtesy of KABC’s The John Phillips Show:
Did everyone get that? She said, “They are spreading fear and they are trying to see that the first president that looks likes me fails.” Did I hear that correctly, she said ‘the first president that looks like’ her? You mean someone who looks less like a woman then Tyler Perry when he’s in drag? Obviously I know she is referring to his race, but one wonders why in a forum packed with liberal drones and a past history of far more blunt racial comments than this she chose to beat around the bush rather then simply state it like everyone else interpreted it to mean.
Then, of course, there are her other comments. First off, Rush Limbaugh is a political pundit, not a leader of a political party or ideology. Secondly, once again the left is taking Limbaugh’s comments out of context. He never once said he hoped President Obama would fail. What he said was he hoped President Obama’s SOCIALIST POLICIES would fail. There is a huge difference between those two statements.
I love the part where she says, “Now, when a senator says that this will be his Waterloo, and we all know what happened at Waterloo …” Umm, if they all came from California public schools then I wouldn’t be so sure about that.
I’ll simply let her comments praising Fidel Castro, Che Guevera, and the Cuban Revolution speak for themselves.
Barely a week ago, a town hall meeting in Houston sponsored by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) was marred in controversy. Of course there was the highly publicized incident in which the congresswoman was seen answering her cell phone as a constituent, a cancer survivor, was asking her question. But there was also the moment during the event when the representative called on a woman during the Q & A session named Roxana Mayer who claimed to be a primary care physician and spoke in support of Obamacare. Turns out that Ms. Mayer wasn’t a medical professional at all. She was however an Obama campaign volunteer and delegate.
The same controversy seems to have hit an already raucous town hall session sponsored by Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank that took place this past Tuesday evening. And who says lightening never strikes twice?
The individual at the center of the dispute is a woman named Sheila Leavitt. The Associated Press and other mainstream media outlets have identified her as a ‘physician from Newton, Massachusetts.’ As Mrs. Leavitt questioned Rep. Frank she said she “hoped for changes that would support primary care physicians who are not paid as much as specialists” and chastised “some of the rowdy critics” she claimed were “using the same ‘talking points’ as those who showed up at similar meetings around the country.”
Buck Right and AR15 have questioned her legitimacy as a medical professional. Buck Right found that no one named Sheila Leavitt is listed as a licensed physician on the website for the Massachusetts State Medical Board. Additionally, a poster at Free Republic searched American Medical Association’s site and failed to find a physician – either a member or non-member of AMA – named Sheila Leavitt in the Massachusetts area.
Then a commentator on Buck Right’s article identifying himself as Mrs. Leavitt’s sixteen-year-old son stated, “She stopped actively practicing medicine 26 some odd years ago — when she began the full time job of lovingly raising four children.”
That fails to adequately answer, however, the reason why she is not listed as a licensed physician. Don’t fret, though. A commentator named Granny over at Gateway Pundit notes, “Massachusetts licenses every last danged thing. If you want to fix your neighbors porch you need a $150 license to do so.If the medical licensing board website does not list her as having a medical license, then she is NOT practicing medicine in the state of Massachusetts.” Another commentator at Gateway Pundit named BullMooseGal adds further, “Whoever the lady is, she doesn’t and hasn’t published in any reputable journal in the last thirty years (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez). That wasn’t so unusual thirty or even fifteen years ago for doctors, but over the last fifteen years, medical professionals have increasingly been expected to contribute to research, so apparently raising her kids (honorable enough) and protesting (laughably) are her professions.”
As it turns out, she’s not the physician of the family. Her husband, Andrew H. Lichtman, M.D., is, according to Michelle Malkin. Let’s not all jump on her for this, though. She probably had a good reason for misrepresenting herself like she did. As with Ms. Mayer she likely did it to give herself more credibility, something her actual past activities were unlikely to do.
Kate at Small Dead Animals did a simple Google search and miraculously found a trail of far-left political activism. The Boston Herald wrote an article about her back in 2005. The story featured her plastering a town with ‘Impeach Bush’ posters and adorning her ‘88 Toyota Corolla with bumper stickers saying “War is barbaric” and “Support our troops . . . Draft Jenna & Barbara,” in addition to placing a cardboard Uncle Sam laying in state atop a black-and-white painted cardboard coffin with the words, “Fake Elections. Fake President. Real Lies. Real War.” Nope, can’t say there is anything nutty about that.
Here’s a suggestion: if the Democrats are going to have fake medical professionals hawk Obamacare, why not use ones that actually have some name recognition among Americans?
All of Sunday, the political blogosphere was alight with activity stemming from the titillating rumor circulating around the Washington Beltway that the White House was willing to drop public-option from President Obama’s health care reform proposal. The Drudge Report accompanied the headline with an image of a white flag. Politico led off with the caption, “White House has backedway.” Others, particularly those on the right, aren’t so convinced. Conservative bloggers like Michelle Malkin are skeptical, believing this not to be a retreat by the Obama administration, but rather a “trial balloon [in which] to measure the potential nutroots backlash versus the potential Senate pick-ups.”
In terms of a ‘potential nutroots backlash’ from the far-left side of the political blogosphere, the results so far have to be less then encouraging for the White House. Doug Ross @ Journal examined one blog in particular, America Blog, which seemed to suggest the fight over health care reform was either public-option or bust.
Contributor Joe Sudbay had these words to say:
“I don’t understand why Democrats are always so willing and desperate to compromise with themselves. The GOPers don’t want any reform bill. Their base, comprised of the teabaggers, birthers and deathers, won’t let them negotiate. So, Democrats compromise with themselves, again — and sell out their principles, again. Just like they did on the stimulus package - they gave the GOP nearly 40% of the package in tax cuts, and how many votes did it get them in the entire Congress? Three”
Ahem, excuse me? The ‘Democrats’ are the ones who are “always so willing and desperate to compromise with themselves?” Surely he must be joking. No, he isn’t … but you can still call him Shirley if you like. But in all seriousness how could Joe Sudbay have written this statement with a straight face? So far in the health care debate this summer we have seen the White House tell supporters of the president’s health care proposal – in particular ACORN and SEIU – to ‘punch back twice as hard’ against tea party protestors, progressive Democrats threaten a leading moderate Democrat in the health care reform fight with losing his chairmanship if he didn’t stop talking to Congressional Republicans, and the Democratic leadership forcing moderate ‘Blue Dog’ Democrats to submit to their rule. That’s always compromising?
But wait, the comment section for the article is even better. Jimfromthefoothills writes, “Remember, we are going to rebuild every school, bridge and road in the country. We will fix healthcare. We will restore the constitution, end illegal wars [and] reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses.”… and then we shall rule the world! Umm, if people like Joe Sudbay say that we shouldn’t listen to uneducated conservative Southern bumpkins then why should we listen to the same kind only on the left? Jim returns later in the comment section to insult Obama, referring to him as ‘Choco-Bush.’ And to think some people believed racism existed only on the right side of the political spectrum.
Jersey asks, “Can we convince Howard Dean to run against Obama in 2012?” Jim returns yet again to add, “Dean\Krugman, Reich\Waters, ANYBODY BUT OBAMA.”
Chairman of the progressive Democracy for America, Jim Dean, chimed in with an e-mail sent to supporters on Monday, August 17th,which told them to “fight any effort to remove a government-run health insurance plan in place of non-profit ‘cooperatives’.” He goes on to suggest that “insider Democrats and the insurance industry are behind the effort to kill a government-run plan.” You mean the same “private insurers and the for-profit health care industry” that donated more to the president and his party “than even Republicans, with the president taking $19 million in the 2008 election cycle alone, more than all his Repubican, Democratic and independent rivals combined?” That same industry?
Political commentator Michelle Malkin recently exposed a meeting with Congresswoman Melissa Bean (D-IL) where constituents must pony up $25 to participate.
The event, which will be held Wednesday, September 2, 2009, requires an RSVP of more than a week in advance. According to the online invitation, the Democratic representative will discuss “health care, railroads, taxes and more” and the session will include a question-and-answer component.
Like many Chamber events, the function will include a “full breakfast,” likely warranting the $25 participation fee to cover the cost of food. While this might seem like a reasonable price for having a meal with a member of Congress, what is most alarming is that this is the only scheduled “town hall” style meeting that Congresswoman Bean has scheduled during August recess.
With so many Democratic lawmakers canceling their planned events with constituents due to unsympathetic public opinion towards liberal health care reform legislation, it is no surprise that the Illinois Democrat penciled in only one “town hall” event in her district. With a required pre-registration deadline so far in advance of the meeting and the exclusive nature of Chamber functions, the Congresswoman can better control the kinds of attendees present at her event, all the while touting her conversation with her constituents.
Too bad that conversation costs cash. There really is meaning to the phrase, “Freedom (of speech) isn’t free.”
The White House’s public option two-step has done something more than keep hundreds of bloggers writing furiously through the weekend - it engendered the outrage of the far left which sees the public option as a prelude to nationalized health care.
“In backing away from its support for a public option in healthcare reform, the Obama administration is picking a fight with the liberal wing of the Democratic party,” Ian Swanson reports in The Hill.
“Ultimately, if the president decides he’s going to go with a reform effort that doesn’t include a public option, what he will have done is spent a ton of political capital, riled up an incredibly angry right-wing base that’s been told this is a plot to kill Grandma, and he will have achieved something that doesn’t change health care very much and that doesn’t save us very much money and won’t do much for the American people,” Ultra-liberal MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said on “Meet the Press.” “It’s not a very good thing to spend a lot of political capital on.”
Richard Thaller, in his New York Times column calls the entire public option a red herring. Thaller argues that whether a public option is included or not, it may eventually be as successful as the Post Office, and that’s not such a bad thing in his estimate.
“Here is a thought experiment: Can you think of a domain where a government-run business competes successfully with private-sector companies?” he writes.
Thaller goes on to cite the imminent failure of the postal service under pressure from FedEx and UPS as one example.
Backdoor public options
While Michelle Malkin suspects Democrats might just try to sneak a public option back into the bill at the 11th hour to avoid the drama, there are other ways to achieve the same goal.
“Some Democrats are likely to insist on including a trigger that would authorize establishing a public insurance option if the private market does not meet cost savings targets,” Andrew Zajac writes in the LA Times.
Pressure to make healthcare more affordable
Zajac further wrote that the public option isn’t the only way to “keep the insurance companies honest.” But how will any reform affect your current coverage?
The Obama administration signaled Sunday that it was on the verge of abandoning a government-run insurance option in its healthcare overhaul — a bow to political reality and a big win for insurers.
But some experts said that may not completely relieve pressure on insurers to deliver cost savings.
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Private-sector options, such as insurance exchanges or cooperatives, would be likely to replace it. Obama already has proposed forming exchanges — virtual marketplaces where private insurers would compete for consumers’ business. And co-ops would allow consumers to band together to negotiate coverage.
The Washington Post has a breakdown of Obama’s promise that you can keep your insurance provider if you’re happy. The Post’s David S. Hilzenrath reports the promise is “not necessarily” true.
The set-up of an insurance exchange could prompt a lot of changes in coverage, including employers dropping coverage.
“Democratic legislative aides said there is no assurance that any of the options offered in the exchange would be the same as employees’ current coverage,” Hilzenrath writes. “The legislation could also prompt some employers to drop coverage, congressional budget analysts say.”
“Sibeleius Misspoke” headlines Marc Armbinder’s Atlantic.com blog on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ comment that the public option is “not an essential part” of reform.
Later in the post, Armbinder quotes an unnamed third Administration official who said that Sebelius didn’t misspeak, “The media misplayed it.”
Obama himself, in Colorado Springs on Saturday, said the public option wasn’t the end-all and be-all of reform, but these statements are fixating the media and enraging the far left.
Town Hall Blogger Matt Lewis had his own interpretation.
“A Washington gaffe can be defined as accidentally telling the truth. As such, I think it’s clear the “public option” is being abandoned — whether they want to admit it, or not,” he said.
Michelle Malkin, followed by Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey went further to call the whole misspoke/misplayed/retraction kabuki dance a trial baloon to guage public reaction through a mouthpiece.
I’m not buying the hype. Are you?
The real Obama is a declared proponent of single-payer and universal health care Trojan Horses. All else is political theater.
Late Sunday, the health care czar’s office said Sebelius “misspoke.”
It’s not a misstatement. It’s not a surrender flag. It’s a trial balloon to measure the potential nutroots backlash versus the potential Senate pick-ups.
Besides, the public option provision can always be stuffed back in via a 3am manager’s amendment or during the House/Senate conference to reconcile each chamber’s Obamacare bills.
“Perhaps the better question is whether the public option was ever really ‘alive’, meaning that it ever had enough votes to pass both the House and the Senate,” Nate Silver asks on FiveThirtyEight.
Silver then goes one to cite his own blog and outdated Congressional Budget Office numbers to say, “You’d think that a provision that is both fairly popular and money-saving was a good bet for passage. But the insurance industry really, really does not like the public option.”
Forget that the CBO has since come out to say the reform savings are smoke and mirrors.
It is absolutely amazing, isn’t it? Only after Nancy Pelosi told an interviewer that health care town hall protestors brandished swastikas did such images finally begin to surface and be picked up by the mainstream media. Pure coincidence, right? Wrong! Nothing in life is coincidental.
Take for example what occurred at a town hall meeting last Thursday, August 6th, hosted by Representative for the 15th Congressional District of Michigan John Dingell. Plastered all over – CNN, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and every other far-left mouthpiece available – is the image of a black man holding a five-foot poster of President Obama with a Hitler mustache. Not to endorse this sort of practice, but isn’t it a bit hypocritical for the mainstream media and others on the left to alter their attitudes toward Hilter/Nazi imagery used to protest governmental officials now that Obama is president after it had been used so abundantly and portrayed so positively during the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency?
Well, guess what? The black man holding the Obama-Hitler poster was … a Dingell supporter! Radio host Frank Beckmann over at News/Talk 760 AM WJR out of Detroit talked to an eyewitness who said “not only were union thugs let in through a side door before anyone else was let into the venue, but that he clearly saw from his vantage point that very Obama as Hitler poster in that back hallway after the union thugs took their seats.”
Then someone over at Free Republic posted this bit of juicy information:
“A couple that were at Dingals TH meeting said there was a black man outside with a sign comparing Obama the Adolf Hitler. After the meeting ended and when everyone was leaving this same man was handing out Dingal campaign flyers.”
And here is the video of Neil Cavuto at FOX News speaking to the couple, Bill and Barb Cornish, who said it was all staged so that the protestors looked bad.
Want to know what the real kicker about this is? The couple who came forward with this information … are Democrats! Oh, it’s just those right-wing extremists! Yeah, not so fast!
Wait! It gets even better. Apparently the poster of President Obama with a Hitler-esque mustache was first seen at a rally for single-payer health care sponsored by Healthcare Now! that took place in Washington D.C. on July 30th. A political organization called LaRouche PAC, which supports single-payer health care, was behind it. It is featured prominently on their website! Click on the button on their home page that says “Stop Obama’s Nazi Health Plan” and it will take you to a page filled with material equating Obama with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. And, yep, right there you can see the now famous Obama-Hitler image.
Here is a video of Stephen Gutowski at Eyeblast.tv breaking down the mainstream media’s lies concerning the Obama-Hitler sign:
Then there is the other story you’ve probably heard about – the one where a black woman at a town hall event in St. Louis, Missouri, sponsored by Senator Claire McCaskill, was dragged out by police after trying to start a fight with a man who took a sign she had placed rolled up on the seat in front of her and crumpled it up.
It is difficult to know exactly what to believe about this story. This appears to be yet another example of the mainstream media making something out to be something that it isn’t. There are several versions about what was actually on the sign – most media outlets are claiming it had a picture of Rosa Parks, but at the same time the woman involved, whose name is Maxine Johnson, said on CNN this afternoon that it contained the words, “Please Pray for President Obama.”
In either case, the mainstream media is jumping on this as a prime example that racism is a rampant component in the health care town hall protests. And yet at the same time Sen. McCaskill has spoken to Anderson Cooper on CNN and said that this was hardly a case of racism:
There is very little information about who the man was affiliated with. A representative for Sen. McCaskill indicated that the man involved, who was later arrested, was not associated with either Sen. McCaskill or the college where the event took place.
A woman identifying herself as the daughter of the man involved had this to say in the comment section of the article covering the story in St. Louis Today:
The “sign grabber” is my father, a man who stops to help people stranded alongside the road, dedicates his time weekly to the poor, gives all his money to the church, and would do anything for ANYONE! our family grew up around African Americans, 3 out of 5 of his children have dated individuals of color whom my father has treated like his own children. He is not racist, he does not see color. He sees people. He is not an aggressive person. He did not even know the contents of Ms. Johnson’s poster; he was upset by the fact that her breaking the “no poster” rule was being rewarded by positive media attention. My father did not see this individual as a women, as African American, or any other separatist adjective you can blow this into. He said to me in explaining the story, “it just wasn’t fair.” Now granted, it wasn’t his duty to remove the poster from this women’s possession, and he realizes this now. But there was no assaulting nor physical harm to the individual, just misjudgement from both parties involved. I’m sure if given the opportunity, my father would be falling over himself to apologize for his misjudgement and promise Ms. Johnson there was nothing racial about it.
And here’s some food for thought – Organizing for America (Obama’s campaign arm) signed up 636 people to attend the event, while the St. Louis Tea Party group was not officially attending since they had already met with Sen. McCaskill.
What’s so amusing (and irritating) about all of this is that the mainstream media is going gangbusters over this story. So a ‘poor’ woman got her sign – which, by the way, she wasn’t suppose to have inside the event in the first place – ripped up. Cue the world’s smallest violin! Umm, where are the stories excessively covering how SEIU thugs tried to smash a woman’s face in, how they put a black conservative man in a wheelchair, or slammed another man against a wall and left lacerations on his chest?
Healthcare Horserace contributors Christopher Lagan and Ellen Carmichael have already covered how Representative for the 18th Congressional District of Texas Sheila Jackson Lee took a cell phone call in the middle of her town hall event (interrupting a cancer-survivor who was asking her a question) and that she called on a fake doctor who went on to defend Obamacare, but here’s a little added information on the latter story:
Lone Star Times secured a phone interview with Ms. Mayer who “admitted to impersonating a physician, saying – get this – she thought it would help her credibility.” What’s more is that if you look closely, you will notice she is seated right next to a woman named Maria Isabel.
And who is Maria Isabel? She ran the Obama campaign office in Houston – complete with a flag with everyone’s favorite mass murderer, Che Guevara. Once again, The Lone Star Times has the complete story. Pure coincidence? Again, nothing in life is coincidental.
And, finally, let’s round out this rather lengthy addition of Town Hall Diaries (apologies) with another Obama/Democrat plant story. And, boy, is this a big one! Remember that town hall meeting President Obama held in New Hampshire this past Tuesday? You know, the same one where he said, “I don’t want people thinking I just have a bunch of plants in here.” That one? Well, guess what? Organizing for America (there they are again!) bussed in supporters of the president’s health care proposal the day of the event. Surprise, Surprise, Surprise! A local New Hampshire news stations, WMUR, has the full video.
As the late-Billy Mays would say, “But, wait – there’s more!” Remember a man named Mr. Peter Schmidt who asked President Obama the first question of the town hall meeting? Click here to watch a video of the question and response to refresh your memory. Turns out he really is who he says he is … leaving out, of course, the part where he’s a Democratic Representative for the state of New Hampshire.
And let’s not even get started on the thirteen-year-old girl – daughter of a substantial Obama donator and supporter – who was ‘randomly’ chosen to read an index card with a pre-written question that helped the president seguewa into talking about conservative/Republican ‘fear-mongering’. Michelle Malkin, Flopping Aces, and Hot Air Pundit have complete details.
