Behold those scary, scary swastika-bearing astroturfers.

Redstate.com ^ | 8/6/09 | Moe Lane

[cotton1706]

(Brief summary for those lacking video: Dallas AARP meeting went wrong for organizers when participants refused to sit down, shut up, and applaud Democratic talking points. Organizers then left; meeting continued.)

Complete with their quoting Madison and their insisting that AARP worked for them and not the other way around and their refusal to believe that AARP iasn’t sucking up to the administration on health care rationing. The sheer nerve of them, acting like they were real, live citizens of both the United States of America and the state of Texas. I mean: they’re all over fifty!

Terrifying, aren’t they?

The young people trying to run the Dallas AARP meeting (while almost-successfully managing to hide their baffled contempt at the way that the audience refused to take direction) certainly thought so. Up to the point where they ran away.

Moe Lane

PS: Exit question: when one of John Sweeney’s union thugs messes up and smacks around some guy in a walker without checking for cameras - how do you think that will play in Peoria? Shoot, how do you think that will play in Chicago or Detroit?

[cotton1706]

"whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise" - Declaration of Independence

[GeronL]

“Listening session”

fingers in their ears saying “yadayadayada I can’t hear you”

[cotton1706]

These people better be careful. You start pissing off the elderly and you’re asking for trouble. They’ve got vast experience, they’ve got nothing to do and they vote. They’d have no problem sitting around a table at the local community center, reading a copy of legislation.

[bgill]

Geezers Unite!

[South40]

AARP sends me information regularly trying to enlist me as a member. And each time they do I return it with their stamp telling them I will never subscribe as long as they continue to use their organization to promote the leftist agenda.

The dumbasses keep trying.

[devistate one four]

aarp is anti 2nd amendment lobbying force (lotsa bucks)

Get out of aarp now!

[winner3000]

I hope this health care “reform” ends up costing the AARP its credibility with a lot of its members, just like it’s costing the MSM the little credibility they still have.

[hoosier hick]

I first saw this at a site other than RedState, and there were 50 or so comments. All comments were negative, and half were determined to not join, cancel their membership, or not renew. Using their support for healthcare reform as a fund raiser is really funny.....

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[ExTexasRedhead]

AARP starts sending you stuff when you’re in your 40’s. So, we are not Old Geezers. The only reason we got a membership was for discounts on things. I called AARP a few days ago. I told the staffer that I had a message for the head of AARP that is supporting “DeathCare.” My message was for that person to shove my membership up their rectum. There was silence on the other end at that point. Then I told the woman that I wanted a refund. My $24 is being sent to me now. Anyone with a membership, feel free to do the same.

[Trod Upon]

How about the elderly just burn their tax returns in protest?

[Borax Queen]

Uh oh.... 40s.... waaaaaaaaaaa :0)

OK, sorry, I can’t keep up with their lies and hyperbole. Were there REAL swastikas, or just someone with “SS” signs (as in Social Security or some other meaning), or are the libbies resentful about being likened to the fascists, or all of the above....

[backhoe]

FYI:

 

Pelosi's Swastika Claim Is A Crock

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2...-is-a- crock.php

Published: August 6, 2009 - 12:26 AM

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) proclaimed that those attending health care town hall meetings are "carrying swastikas." You can watch her say it below:

 

Interviewer: Do you think there's legitimate grassroot opposition going on here?

Pelosi: "I think they're Astroturf... You be the judge. "They're carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare."

If one were to take her at her word, surely the Nutroots (Netroots) would have been all over this story and can corroborate her assertion, right?

Wrong...

I ventured into the fever swamp to find confirmation of the Speaker's allegations. I went to the largest community sites searching for "Swastika." Surely that would turn up confirmation of the Speaker's claim.

Here's what I found...

[Note: Links are to search results that will change over time. Anything dated after 8/5/09 is an after the fact post or comment that would, in effect, be Astroturfing for Pelosi's statement.]

Daily Kos (Stories and Diaries) - 2 results, 1 related. The related report (about defending liberal turf on health care) contains no report of health care protest attendees wearing swastikas. Verdict: No corroboration

Think Progress - 1 result dated back to 2008, unrelated. Verdict: No corroboration

Firedoglake - 3 results, none related. Verdict: No corroboration

Google Blog Search - None related, one post calling B.S., and there was this from a recent Austin, Minnesota immigration reform debate, where an actual member of the Socialist Party is said to have worn a t-shirt with a swastika. Verdict: No corroboration

But finally, the comment sewer at Daily Kos did reap a reward...

Daily Kos Comment Search - Mostly non-related, but there is one comment which appears to be the source of Pelosi's contention. Here we find the one and only reference to someone (a kid) supposedly wearing a swastika to an event in Austin two weeks ago. Verdict: Possible source

With that to go on I found this report about the Austin event. No mention of swastikas in the report, but there was one comment mentioning a sign with swastikas. Verdict: Another possible source

The Daily Kos comment and the Burnt Orange Report comment are ostensibly about the same event but one person supposedly saw a kid with a swastika and another saw a sign. The Burnt Orange Report post indicates that there were only 40 or so protestors. The Burnt Orange Report comment indicates that there was media covering the event, yet none of the media noticed the swastikas? Seems pretty unlikely. More likely the two commenters were embellishing for a crowd (the other commenters) who were all too happy to believe whatever they said.

Aparently comment sections liberal blogs is where the Speaker of the House, number three in line to the Presidency, gets her information.

Verdict: Bullshit

Adrian points out the video here. I made a screen cap...

"I've seen/heard some ridiculous charges (with no proof to back them up) concerning the town hall protests, but this clearly takes the cake."

"Funny to hear her say this, considering at dozens of anti-bush rallies there were pictures of bush and the swastika on the same page."

"Astroturf" means someone else is working behind the scenes. "Swastikas" means that the someone else is a Nazi group. It does not matter to Pelosi whether any swastikas were there, she has made her false little point. ( The Narrative so beloved by the Left and the Press- but then, I repeat mysef'... )

Pelosi Says Tea Party Protesters Are Like Nazis: " They're Carrying Swastikas"

Angry Liar Nancy Pelosi says the Tea Party Protesters are like Nazis:

"They're carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare."

Here's the video from O'Reilly:

 

Obviously, the Speaker must have meant that the Tea Party Protesters were carrying Marxist signs not Nazi signs but she wouldn't want to repeat that to the media.

Funny how it never bothered the angry liberals when the Left was carrying signs like these at rallies during the Bush years:

Posted by Gateway Pundit at 8/06/2009 05:51:00 AM Comments (23) |

 

Protest-loving liberals now advocate snitch campaigns and investigations of protesters - and I'm loving it!

For me, this week has been one of those times when it's really great to be a conservative. Please indulge me while I pour a tall glass of vintage Schadenfreude and spend the next few moments joyously ridiculing Team Obama and their army of professional "organizers."

I seem to recall that we've just endured eight years of "WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!" Am I just waking up from a bad dream? Because I distinctly remember dissent being the highest form of patriotism. I remember liberals flipping out over the Patriot Act, to the extent that they tried to kill it. I remember liberals going nuts when President Bush suggested that Americans report suspicious activity in the wake of 9/11.

And this:

It may seem a little frightening when Obama Administration officials publicly call for Tea Party and town hall protesters to be photographed and investigated (I know, I know ... can you even imagine the response of liberals if a Bush Administration spokesperson had called for investigations of anti-war protesters) but the truth is that we now have Team Obama on the run. They are circling the wagons and firing their guns into the air, hoping to scare us away.

Or to use Saul Alinsky's phraseology, " If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside." The self-championed defenders of free speech, dissent, and organized protests are now advocating censorship, intimidation, and other scare tactics in order to save their agenda.

Like I said, this is one of those weeks where I'm really glad to be a conservative.

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2...m-loving- it.php
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Chisum | 08.06.09 - 8:46 am | # []​

 

"Remember this "Obama Says "Argue With Neighbors, Get In Their Face" speech during the campaign??? Well I do. It's on You Tube if you want to to refresh your memory."

[ExTexasRedhead]

Zero has called out his Brown Shirts and Union Thugs to convince the American people he cares about their HealthCare or is it just their Heath in general? Will they be going door too door next? Maybe we will have to wear a sign on our clothes that we are one of the Americans that are confused and not following orders?

[Cyber Liberty]

Thanks for that summary, Heavy Equipment Operator!

[paulycy]

[Borax Queen]

I’m sure we will have to wear signs soon! After all, they’re already saying we’re too well-heeled -— excuse me for wearing lipstick and combing my hair!!! And maybe wearing a jean skirt and not spilling out all over the place like the fat (excuse me, weight-challenged) Commie-supporters do!!

I heard BO in the background, bragging about how he’s “the president”... dunno what he was talking about, what context, but I’m so disgusted by his non-stop bragging narcissism. All the while sneering at us.

[backhoe]

[DallasMike]

We Texans are not going to take this crap without a fight.

[goat granny]

Being a geezer myself, I am all for us to unite. Lived too many years to listen to bull shit from nit wits.