Durbin warns other lawmakers of healthcare town hall 'sucker punch'

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) warned other members of Congress against antagonistic audience members at healthcare town hall events who may be funded by industry interest groups.

"I hope my colleagues won't fall for a sucker punch like this," Durbin told the liberal blog ThinkProgress.

"These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town meetings for visual impact on television," he added.

Liberal news sources have recently featured items about conservative and interest groups efforts to pack lawmakers' town hall meetings with brash, vocal participants.

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/08/03/durbin-warns-other-lawmakers-of-healthcare-town-hall-sucker-punch/

So, this isn't some "grassroots" protest. Durbin has called these "protester" out for what they are: paid corporate shills for the insurance industry.

Need to find a few of these people who are being paid and get them to admit it on national TV. If they could prove they are really being paid, and get it on national TV, it could help them expose the insurance industry, and the republicans in congress, for what they really are, scum!

and shout down the astroturfers.

... don't you mean liberal-leaning news aggregaters?

What's with all this librul media bullshit!?

k+r for the rest of the story.

Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, rvablue.

to the health care interests. These are what needs to be tackled in order to finally get health care