Obama’s Green Shoots: AstroTurf Plants at Town Hall Meetings
ByI’ve finally figured out what green shoots are. They aren’t about the economy, no, the green shoots are the AstroTurf plants popping up at town hall meetings.
Here’s a video of Obama supporters getting off a bus at the Portland, NH town hall meeting. Check out the fancy sign at the end. Gee, I wonder where he got it? He’s pretty well dressed, too. (H/T Gateway Pundit)
Nancy Pelosi’s swastika comment the other day was taken as a smear against the right. In fact, it was a call out to supporters to come to town hall meetings posing as right wingers. A man a town hall meeting held a large poster of Obama sporting a Hitler mustache. Of course the media went crazy, and didn’t bother to find out who exactly was holding that sign. Hint: It wasn’t a right winger.
The media is in a tizzy over the town hall meetings and what they are calling the angry mob. If they really cared about angry mobs, why didn’t they report the protests against President Bush in 2002? Talk about an angry mob. According to Bill Sammon at Fox News it was a violent mob.
News outlets that are focusing on the incendiary rhetoric of conservatives outside President Obama’s town hall meeting Tuesday ignored the incendiary rhetoric — and even violence — of liberals outside an appearance by former President George W. Bush in 2002.
When Bush visited Portland, Ore., for a fundraiser, protesters stalked his motorcade, assailed his limousine and stoned a car containing his advisers. Chanting “Bush is a terrorist!”, the demonstrators bullied passers-by, including gay softball players and a wheelchair-bound grandfather with multiple sclerosis.
One protester even brandished a sign that seemed to advocate Bush’s assassination. The man held a large photo of Bush that had been doctored to show a gun barrel pressed against his temple.
“BUSH: WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE,” read the placard, which had an X over the word “ALIVE.”
Another poster showed Bush’s face with the words: “F— YOU, MOTHERF—ER!”
A third sign urged motorists to “HONK IF YOU HATE BUSH.” A fourth declared: “CHRISTIAN FASCISM,” with a swastika in place of the letter S in each word.
Although reporters from numerous national news organizations were traveling with Bush and witnessed the protest, none reported that protesters were shrieking at Republican donors epithets like “Slut!” “Whore!” and “Fascists!”
Frank Dulcich, president and CEO of Pacific Seafood Group, had a cup of liquid thrown into his face, and then was surrounded by a group of menacing protesters, including several who wore masks. Donald Tykeson, 75, who had multiple sclerosis and was confined to a wheelchair, was blocked by a thug who threatened him.
The last time I checked, the only violent episodes at recent town hall events were perpetrated by the AstroTurf plants of the left. But you aren’t going to hear the main streat media report that fact.
UpdateThis video of the busloads is even better.
H/T Breitbart
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