Let’s play “Spot the Astroturfers”
ST reader Sev sends along this link to a photo recap of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to downtown Denver last week, where she was on a mission to promote ObamaCare. See if you can spot the real “Astroturfers” in the pictures. Was it those with homemade signs and not dressed in any particular color T-shirt, or the ones with the mass-produced signs and/or wearing purple shirts?
AJC columnist: Over half those opposed to ObamaCare are “racists”
Following in the footsteps of ultra-left wing columnist Paul “Kruggie” Krugman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker earlier this week expressed the viewpoint that the primary motivation for opposition to ObamaCare was … racism. Via Mark Finkelstein at NB:
The mob rule starts
Well, we all knew that once union thugs started getting involved in the ObamaCare town hall debates, that things were going to get ugly – and they have. Memeorandum has multiple links to reports of violence at two ObamaCare town halls last night, one in Tampa and the other in St. Louis. There were six arrests at the one in St. Louis, and among those allegedly arrested were SEIU members – who, according to Jim Hoft, were given preferential treatment at the town hall. One black conservative was reportedly beaten up by a union thug and had to be taken to the hospital.