If the birthers/town-hall-disturbers are being bussed around, WHO is organizing???

skip fox

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Tue Aug-04-09 07:13 AM
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If the birthers/town-hall-disturbers are being bussed around, WHO is organizing???

Has anyone answered this? This is where the media should look. If it's RNC (though I doubt it) that would be big news. If it's a fringe group new minted on the fly (more likely) I'll bet it has ties to the Republican Party.

This is where the media should look.

Who is renting the buses? Who is doing the planning.

All of this has one aim: killing Health Care Reform. (I hope the media pounces on this to expose this charade.)

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Botany

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Tue Aug-04-09 07:15 AM
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1. Some lobbying groups are doing it and they are paid by the insurance ...

Edited on Tue Aug-04-09 07:19 AM by Botany

... companies.

Insurance companies are spending 1.4 million a day to stop health care reform.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/health/policy/04townhalls.html

Link to story Freedom Works & Americans for Prosperity

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Vinca

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Tue Aug-04-09 07:15 AM
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2. I think it's that "FreedomWorks" outfit in Washington run by Dick Armey.

The same group that ginned up the teabaggers.

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eShirl

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Tue Aug-04-09 08:40 AM
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9. it IS a Dick Army

Miracle Max: Go away or I'll call the Brute Squad.

Fessick: I'm ON the Brute Squad.

Miracle Max: You ARE the Brute Squad!

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depakid

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Tue Aug-04-09 07:15 AM
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3. It's Dick Armey's group

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SpiralHawk

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Tue Aug-04-09 07:19 AM
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4. "Smirk" - ORHO*

* Occult Republicon Homelander Operatives

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thunder rising

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Tue Aug-04-09 07:20 AM
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5. Not WHO but WHAT ... We Hate All Truth

Edited on Tue Aug-04-09 07:20 AM by thunder rising

I don't think there are buses of protesters, but the organization effort is certainly coordinated. The database for Tea-Bagger membership are available for recruiting the wingnuts. Once the willing nut cases are recruited they are given directions and talking points.

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skip fox

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Tue Aug-04-09 07:33 AM
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7. I thought Obermann said they were bussed in.

I might have heard wrong or taken it too literally.

The point is, to show that these people are form elsewhere and that there was coordination to their disruption. (And if that points to insurance companies directly or indirectly, so much the better.)

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YOY

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Tue Aug-04-09 07:30 AM
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6. Freedomworks. Astroturf.

IT's hilarious. You don't even need to hear that these are RW organizations. THey always have names that include "Freedom", "Patriot", and "Family" and try to corner the market on "America(n)" to boot.

Yet they stand for none of those things.

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Buzz Clik

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Tue Aug-04-09 08:26 AM
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8. Here's Richard Wolffe's analysis:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#32244884

He does not list the funding groups behind the disruptions, but he does give detailed information about the organization.

(Interesting that Wolffe put out this analysis the very day before he was smeared as being a corporate whore. What a coincidence!)

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slackmaster

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Tue Aug-04-09 08:41 AM
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10. The answer is obvious

The Conspiracy.

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Arkansas Granny

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Tue Aug-04-09 08:41 AM
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11. Stephanie Miller is discussing this on her show right now.

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