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Politcal "Activists" Paid to Show Support for Obamacare
By Michael Kerr | 08/10/09 | 01:32 PM EDT | 10 Comments
Political strategist Josh Trevino ran across some interesting ads illustrating the left’s blatant hypocrisy and desperate attempts to counter dwindling support for health care reform. Democrats have tried to discredit anyone voicing opposition to their misguided legislation by portraying them as an unhinged mob and shills for the GOP.
It appears that the left has a well healed, albeit disingenuous, effort of their own in place to garner “support” for health care reform and drown out the voices of concerned citizens opposed to a government takeover of our medical system.
Ads are appearing on Craigslist in search of people willing to “Help Pass Obama’s Health Care Reform!…Earn $325-$550 per week.” Political “activists”, some who can't even read the signs they are holding, are being paid to attend town hall meetings on behalf of Obamacare.
This is all very ironic given the fact that Democrats have been leveling charges against Republicans, accusing them of “astroturfing” town hall gatherings with opponents of health care reform. The left is actually orchestrating the appearance of support by paying people to show up at these meetings!
Democrats are realizing that their dream of universal health care is in trouble. Rather than listen to voters’ concerns, they are attempting to silence the debate with distortions and payoffs.
Clearly there is a well organized, angry mob in place. They have been given their "astroturfing" marching orders and, in some cases,…… a paycheck.
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This is really over-the-top. They are paying people to go to meetings? Wow, I guess desperate times call for desperate messures. I'm attending a meeting this week and I know many others who are as well.
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|You hand it to the Dems. They are pulling out all the stops on this one. They are motivated and we need to double our efforts to defeat this garbage legislation.
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|This is unbelievable. These liberals are a sad display.
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|Where's the Craigslist link. It doesn't work.
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|Good grief. How did I miss out on that. I'm a liberal and wasn't offered any money to appear. Could it be that they really aren't paying people to show up?? Duh.
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|That is the catchy headline of Chip Hanlon's column that beat Mr. Kerr's piece exactly four hours here at Red County. Mr. Kerr's late-out-the gate piece exactly recapitulates Hanlon's piece.
First, for anon, the link:
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/search/jjj?query=obama&catAbbreviation=jjj
is alive and well. It shows 10 (ten) links going to the same entity, The Fund for Public Interest.
Rather than double posting the rebutal to Hanlon's piece, simply go to its link:
http://www.redcounty.com/organized-mob-story-turns-upside-down
As I stated in the rebutal, The Fund for Public Interest does not exactly have clean hands. But hiring liberal shills to pack town hall meetings is not among its bag of sleeze.
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|Lee, you must have found your definition of "rebutal" when doing all that extensive research on wiki. The only thing that you have rebutted with regard to Hanlon or Kerr's articles is your own credibility.
Again, this time slooowly, follow along....you have multiple liberal organizations paying people to garner support for health care reform. You have day workers being paid to attend town hall meetings. Does this sound like honest, open debate? No chance an administration that encourages citizens to send the White House e-mails with info. on anyone opposed to this legislation has any connection to all of this, right?
Did you reply to one of those ads, Lee? Let me guess; they are paying you, too. You have been exposed! Thought you said you were retired....isn't it time for a nap?
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|Neil, you say:
"Again, this time slooowly, follow along....you have multiple liberal organizations paying people to garner support for health care reform. You have day workers being paid to attend town hall meetings".
You a making assertions for which you have not provided any hard evidence. To be sure, the Fund for Public Interest is a vacuum cleaner that mines loose change for liberal interest groups. There are many such fund raising entities, both on the left and right. That is politics.
Where you fail to make the case is providing direct evidence that day workers, or what have you, are paid by FPIR fund raising.
Show me the evidence....slooowly because I don't go for WAG..
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|One thing I've noticed here. The concern appears to be about who is being paid to show up at town hall meetings. Isn't that what Conservatives did in the last election, hire people to gather signatures for petitions and show up at meetings then. If the shoe fits....wear it. In psych language it's called projection.
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|It's nice to see good 'ole fashioned Republican hate mongering and misinformation. I like to think that Americans are completely above doing what's right and are more concerned with stupid bipartisan mud flinging. Thanks chump. I hope you get cancer right after you private insurnace company drops you for exceeding your lifetime cap.
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