Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Faux Outrage: Loud, Proud and Bogus


Images from source, Brad Blog

If you think there's something fishy going on with all of these "grass roots" uprisings at various town hall meetings around the country, there's a reason for that. They're staged. Now, these wingnuts may actually be pissed off, but still in that vague, tea party, tea bagger way (also set-ups, by the way). In order to try to focus these lummoxes, they've given them a script, and instructions. The only problem is, with nut bars like this as your foot soldiers, there is the very likely consequence that they're going to start going off script. And boy howdy, I wouldn't put anything past these people, would you?

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Wingnuts Receive Marching Orders On How to Disrupt Upcoming Town Halls With Phony Outrage

Are there simply no democratic (small "d") processes left that the Right isn't willing to corrupt to their own corporatized, nefarious purposes? It would seem not.

This from ThinkProgress, concerning the rightwing, corporate-sponsored (read: astroturf) "grassroots" FreedomWatch coalition, and their conveniently leaked talking points instruction memo [PDF] on how to create an appearance of dissension --- "Yell...Stand up and shout out...Rattle Him...Be Disruptive Early and Often" --- at upcoming town hall meetings back in Congressional districts over the August recess...

Read more at: Brad Blog


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