Posted on 03/19/2010 10:13:13 AM PDT by mainestategop
“Whatever happened, the man and the person filming were just waiting for something to catch on film.”
Yep. It was a set up, but the folks there let their emotions get the best of them. I don’t think it was faked.
There is a compassionate way to say, “Hey, we understand the current system isn’t working for you, but don’t believe the lie. Obamacare is going to make your care worse, not better.”
So where is the lefts outrage over Seth McFarlen and Bill Maher’s skewering of children with downs syndrome?
I say BS. Every time I have been with Tea Party members, or protesters wit hthe same mind set, the people were all well behaved almost ot a fault!
A security guard tells one of us we can’t sit on a fountianside and we politely move.
We gotta fight the propagandists and far left nazties with our heads. But it’s getting time for other strategies as well.
See you in DC on Saturday!
Parkinsonism is a clinical manifestation consistin;g of 4 cardinal signs: Tremor at rest; rigidity of extremities; Bradykinesia ( slow movement of the extremities); and loss of posteral reflexes. Bradykinesia refers to a paucity of automatic and spontaneous movements and difficulty in initiating voluntary movement. (Take a look at the other You-tube video of this hero). He moves his extremeties with purpose and will vigor and almost immediate spontanaeity when discussing what he was saying. He gesticulates purposefully and he does not have hypomimia (lack of expression of the face) which is so characteristic of Parkinsonism (especially after 15 years, so he says). Bradykinesia accounts for the majority of signs of Parkinsonism with general slowing of movement of extremeties (Again take a look at the other You-tube videos and ask if his arm movements are slowed.) Generally decreased facial motor activity results in drooling...not there. There is generally a marked diminuition in blinking...take a look at his blinking on the other videos. There is nearly always a decrease in the amplitude of repetetive movements (watch his hands on the other videos. There is almost always a loss of gesturing while speaking. Does this guy gesticulate automatically....Yes he does. Disability ( wheelchair bound condition) generally comes after 10 -15 years. Did this guys friends just pour him out on the street for the video. And why was a video, complete with closeups, ready and shot in a 45 second encounter? This was not a cell-phone video.
I am not looking at the guy to examine him, but he does not add up to Parkinsonism.
Exactly. Agreed 100%.
That would have been George HW Bush.
This is a propaganda attempt. The money guy shoving his way out and clearly enunciating for the camera is just too perfect. Just in case, he turns and repeats the performance. Finally, he reaches under his arm and withdraws a tiny sign that reads, “I Am AFP”, which presumably refers to Americans for Prosperity. The filmaker is Doral Chenoweth who has ties to Habitat For Humanity and numerous other Social Justice causes. Not buying it, too cute by half.
No. It was Gore.
I dont’ see what was so terrible about it. The man is an intelligent older guy (professor) who got a bad disease, lost his job (I guess liberal colleges didn’t want him), couldn’t pay his health insurance, but qualifies for medicare so he’s still being treated.
So he shows up at a rally, and sits right in front of a bunch of anti-Obamacare protestors, waving a sign in their faces, and taking up a good deal of space where they all have to be careful.
And careful they are, nobody is near him, or threatening him. One guy points out that if he wants free care, he’s at the wrong part of the rally. Which he was. It is a typical liberal trick to exploit their disabled for political gain, and they obviously wanted to put this guy where he could ridicule our side and our side would feel like they couldn’t fight back.
But our side saw past his disability, and saw him as a man with really bad ideas, a man who was fighting for a health care bill that would take billions from the program that is paying his insurance, and would cause him to lose his doctor.
The other guy is more mocking, but he’s not mocking the guy’s disease, he’s mocking the guy’s desire to get other people to pay for his health care. So he gives him money, saying “If I’m going to pay for you, it’s going to be voluntarily”. Which is the message our side is sending.
It wasn't original to Gore. The first time I ever heard of the "extra chromosome" insult was from GHW Bush dissing conservatives back in 1980s.
see http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8040971.html
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0208/simon021308.php3
In 1987, Bush apologized for having said, "Ever since I said Viguerie was all hat and no cattle in 1984, I solidified the animosity of a handful of the extra-chromosome set, and there's nothing I can do about it."
Gore was not quoting Bush. He thought he was being original.
We are free to make fun of whatever we want, regardless of whether or not it is offensive to others.
Actually it wasn’t a stunt. It was a real guy with Parkinson’s.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/03/19/angry-protesters-warp-focus-of-debate.html?sid=101
He is 60 and worked as a nuclear engineer, has a doctorate. Got Parkinson’s 15 years ago.
You can make fun of him if you want to, that’s your right. He’s on Medicaid but says he wants others to be able to afford health insurance as well.
There’s an interview with him on YouTube that was put together by some group called “ProgressOhio.Org” which will probably cross it off most lists. If your are curious to see him for yourself, it’s here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfvnNzgQy7Q&feature=video_response
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