PD, I was talking about the ANSWER featured in this article:

http://www.laweekly.com/2002-11-07/news/behind-the-placards

You know, the whole organization. Not individual assholes like you cited.

J.

Tea Party 2 dude!

Really? How about the beat down they gave to those counter-protesters?

The death threats made to 15 year old children, maybe?

Equivalencies, meh.

J.

Of course you didn’t have lobbyists for that. You have “community organizers” to do that. Remember ACORN leading those tours of the homes of the bankers in Connecticut?

J.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You people are just strange.

From the memo:

“Just imagine what we can achieve if we see to it that every Representative in the nation who has supported the socialist agenda has a similar experience!”

Doesn’t exactly sound like a strategy used to win over the zoning board for that much needed Hardee’s.

In brief, that covers the “how” — but not the “what” or “why.”

FreedomWorks chair, Dick Armey, is also on the law firm of DLA Piper -who recently got a nice 1.3 million from Medicines Co.
That’s a start.

Yea, sounds like a group of ‘concerned constituents’ to me…

These little outbursts are totally 100% scripted and staged deliberately. These assholes even admit it!

Send a bunch of dittohead idiots into congressional meetings to scream and yell and disrupt the event because they cant argue on their ideas, since they have none.

They don’t want a reasoned debate or discussion, the goal is to simply make a mess of the place so nothing gets accomplished. Fucking children, the lot of them.

Please, keep this up, wingnuts. This is such a pathetic, desperate tactic because it shows you clearly have lost the debate if all you can do is try and prevent one from even taking place.

In brief, that covers the “how” — but not the “what” or “why.”

Possibly because there’s no need to “astroturf” the message? Possibly because there are a lot of people who’ve come to the same conclusion without needing some astroturfer (such as, say, those who fund Think Progress) to give them their message of the day?

I would feel quite comfortable in saying that the vast majority of those confronting these congresscritters are constituents of said critters — and therefore, by definition, entitled to give him or her a piece of their mind. Indeed, it’s practically a duty.

J.

Try here.

That’s the scary part of this whole thing, to those who fear it — there aren’t really any recognizable leaders. It really is a popular movement, in the literal sense.

As opposed to those pro health care rallies, coordinated by ACORN (or whatever they’re calling themselves these days). People whose full-time job is “organizing” stuff like this.

At least one of those “Scumbags Formerly Known As ACORN” rallies was overwhelmed by Tea Party ralliers.

Of course, I could be wrong about the astroturfing. After all, the King of the Astroturfers, David Axelrod, is in the White House, and if anyone oughta be able to spot a really, really good astroturfing movement, it’d be him…

J.

Implosion?

Tea Baggers.
Birthers.
Christian Right.
Sarah Palin.

-You’d be lucky if your next “Uniter” is Jim Jones.

p.s. When your blog’s newest post is “Another excellent column by Thomas Sowell”, well.. hate to tell you, but at reached Camp Incurious, you’re not just a day-tripper, you’re Activities Director.

This group, who — a fact confirmed by the direct and indirect acknowledgment of its leadership — also makes a regular habit of importing “extras” from out of the area to inflate the number of attendees at its local events in order to make it look like it has more “homegrown” support than it actually does, apparently has some “turncoats” operating in its midst or — perhaps — is simply composed of members who either just don’t care or otherwise lacked the wherewithal to implement their efforts to hijack this event and turn it into the circus from Hell without showing every card in their hand repeatedly over the last several days to folks who, once they knew what the members were up to, wanted to warn us to be ready for it. That somehow led me to joining a team of others at this event that was tasked with trying to keep as tight a lid as possible on those folks.

It seemed to me as though they were alienating just about everybody there with their rude, bullying, and obnoxious behavior except perhaps the other like-minded members of their cohort that were also present. They mostly managed to look to everyone else to be exceedingly ill-mannered, equally as ill-informed, and overwhelmingly racist and xenophobic in composition, as well. (They pissed me off so badly that my adrenaline level was still elevated to the point that I couldn’t get to sleep for several hours after I got home last night, despite the fact that I was totally exhausted.) But in so doing, they managed to substantially fortify my resolve to help move this bill toward a successful end; frankly there is not a single thing that I can think of that could otherwise have occurred last night that could have come even remotely close to inspiring the level of commitment that I now have toward this cause as did their grating “dog and pony” show. And I was one of many who responded in similar fashion to the unrelenting “shenanigans” that they forced us all to endure for three painful hours until it was finally over.

I have a sneakin’ suspicion that this strategy more broadly applied is going to end up just as poorly received by the broader audience as it was at our individual local event last night. Now wouldn’t that be some deliciously just desserts?