Once the SEIU said they were going to send their enforcers to townhall meetings this was inevitable.
The key info from the link:
Shortly thereafter, violence erupted, where there were 2-3 big goons came out and started pushing those in line, and roughing up one in the corner (see top left screen) as well as another being put in a choke hold. Directly in front of the gentleman in the plaid type shirt, is one of them in a flower print. (eleven o’clock from the camera phone in the scene.) To right of the phone, another in a white shirt. Keep your eye on him, as he then goes for the choke hold on one of the people.
For all Pelosi’s complaints about protesters bearing swastikas, it’s pretty easy to see which side is actually employing brownshirts.
Remember all those “independent” ethics filings against Sarah Palin? We were told they were all private citizens who were just concerned about good government. Turns out: not so much:
This is the Kos crowd coordinating with first the Obama campaign and now administration trying to smear Sarah Palin repeatedly.
Remember this the next time they tell you they’re not afraid of her, that’s she just some dumb snowbilly, and that they’re realling just laughing at her.
Yeah. That’s why they brought an Alaskan guy into Obama’s inner circle to coordinate attacks against her. But remember, they’re not afraid of her at all.
Naturally this has him up in arms about corporate censorship of the news. But Greenwald intentionally avoids the huge elephant in the room: GE’s use of its media networks to push its corporate interests. If I asked you to name the cable network best known for its sycophantic coverage of the Obama administration, which one would you choose? MSNBC, of course. And which network recently hosted an entire day of basically sitting on Obama’s lap and asking him to tell them a story? NBC.
Who owns both of these networks? GE.
So it’s pretty safe to say that GE is uniquely pro-Obama. But why? Obama’s anti-business policies and regularly scheduled class warfare against CEOs wasn’t exactly a closely-held secret to anyone who actually did their pre-election homework, and there’s no way GE didn’t do its homework before going all in for Obama. So then what could explain the obvious bias?
How many other ways is GE in bed with the Obama administration? I found these in about 10 minutes of Googling. How much could an actual news organization with dedicated reporters actually dedicated to finding out the truth uncover?
Their TV audience is dwindling quickly on both networks, and GE knows it. Why not go out with a bang and use their control of those networks to promote its other lines of business? And if that means getting in bed with the Obama administration in order to corruptly obtain highly lucrative government contracts, why not?
Especially when pundits like Gleen Greenwald are so eager to look the other way so long as GE keeps pimping for Barack Obama…
Somehow I’m thinking this would be front-page news if President Bush had been the one dumping toxic sewage on White House grounds.
Color me shocked (shocked!) that the same outlets that thought Michelle Obama’s faux vegetable gardening earlier this year suddenly became extremely disinterested in the story once it turned out that a Democrat was responsible for the inedibility of those same veggies.
If there is one consistent message coming from the Democratic Party today, it is that the so-called “public option” for ObamaCare is NOT, repeat NOT inevitably going to lead to a single-payer system. Any claims that it is are, of course, just Republican lies and spin.
During the whole Carrie Prejean episode, lots of people pointed out that her position was no different than that of President Obama or even his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. So why were people crucifying her and giving these two Democratic icons a complete pass?
The answer from the gay community was that, yeah, Obama says he’s against gay marriage but he just had to say that to get elected. He’s really FOR it, you see, it’s just you ignorant straights that believed him when he said he was against it. We smart gays know better.
So tell me, how do you feel about your Messiah today? Still think that everybody else was stupid, and you were the geniuses who knew better? We’ll be waiting for that apology to Carrie Prejean for unfairly singling her out while you hypocritically shielded Obama and the rest of the Democratic Party from criticism. And you wonder why your cause isn’t taken more seriously?
When you’re willing to sell out on what you claim is the most important moral issue of the day in the name of your party politics, you’ll have to excuse people for thinking that you’re not really that serious about either wanting it or what your actions says about how little importance this “important moral issue” really has. As Glenn Reynolds often says about things like global warming, “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people telling me it is start acting like there is one.”
It’s put up or shut up time with Obama and the rest of the Democratic Party. Which will you choose?
Kevin Hassett over at Bloomberg is speculating that Obama’s strategy is to effectively bankrupt American businesses so that he can nationalize them. It’s one of those theories that six months ago people would have dismissed as a kooky conspiracy theory, but with the track that the Democratic Congress and Obama are taking it’s seemingly more plausible every day.
This is a danger I used to warn people about more than a decade ago when it became all the rage for the federal and state governments to raise revenues by taxing cigarettes under the guise of paying for health care benefits. My favorite example was putting a tax on coffee because of all the possible carcinogens in coffee.
Of course everyone poopood what I was saying, and I explained that once governments found a lifestyle choice that they could tax with public support that it was only a matter of time before they moved on to the next one. Why not coffee? Millions drink coffee, so the potential revenue benefits are huge. And who doesn’t support healthcare?
”When they came for the smokers, I said nothing….” You reap what you sow, America. You thought it was a good idea when they were going after other people, why are you complaining now?
David Axelrod, Obama’s campaign manager, is one of the most vicious, disgusting and vile human beings ever to walk the face of the earth. To even think of some of the smears that have been launched against Sarah Palin, let alone be responsible for spreading what he knows for a fact to be outright lies, takes a level of human depravity that few are capable of.
I state this as fact. If Obama and Axelrod want to challenge me, then let’s take it to court. We’ll go to discovery over their communications with the Winner family, open up the client lists of his AstroTurfing company, and follow the dots throughout the Democratic leadership. Go ahead, I triple dare you….
