Posted on 08/07/2009 10:39:00 AM PDT by Dallas59
Rep. Steve Kagen (D-WI) faced a “heated” discussion about health care at a town hall meeting yesterday, with people in the crowd who were heckling, interrupting, and filibustering him.
One vocal attendee was a woman named Heather Blish, who identified herself as “just a mom from a few blocks away” and “not affiliated with any political party.” When interviewed by the local NBC affiliate, Blish insisted she was not a member of the Republican Party. “I left the party,” she said. Blish’s statements, however, are distortions.
wow, the media can sure do their research if they really want to.
Because a mom would never vote Republican?
Some in-depth investigative journalism here.
Some people at town hall meetings are Republicans!
Next I want to know if that baby she was holding was really hers or just a prop? Perhaps it was really her daughter’s baby? Republicans are so sneaky and well organized and paid for by BIG insurance.
” Exactly. And what’s up with her saying she doesn’t pay dues to the GOP? “
“Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times...”
Flashback: When the Left Protested Bush, the Media Saw Only “everyone from grandmothers and students to veterans and mothers pushing strollers”
—Ace
I cite this as an example, and I trust not even a liberal will dispute that when it came to anti-war protests, the protesters were unfailingly described as “just normal folks,” spontaneously animated to gather without, apparently, any organization at all; somehow, it seems, they psychically intuited where their fellow “just normal folks” might be banging their drums and shaking their paper mache effigies of Bush and Cheney.
Ah, but that was when dissent was patriotic.
After the meeting, everyone from grandmothers and students to veterans and mothers pushing strollers marched along Lake Merritt to Oakland City Hall for an afternoon rally at which Lee again spoke.
That’s noted leftist anti-american firebrand Rep. Barbara Lee. She spoke with Sean Penn.
Ummm... earth to NBC: Lots of people who are “just a mom” work on campaigns.
This is a plant by a troll. First giveaway is the “submitted by” tag. Remember, don’t feed the trolls ;-)
She wasn’t a lowly campaign worker. She was Vice-Chair of her county Republican Party
Not the person here (Dallas59) being a troll. The article itself. MSM bias all over it.
You’re not even joking, remember how they tried to smear Sarah Palin by questioning if she was actually the mother of one of her children? The media will sink to any depths, if such is possible when they’re already naturally lower than a snake’s belly, in their dedication to their lord and master Hussein.
“She wasn’t a lowly campaign worker. She was Vice-Chair of her county Republican Party”
What’s your point? That organized protesting, however little or much this movement is influenced by it, is somehow invalid?
We should round up every SEIU, AFL-CIO, Teamsters, ACORN and other labor union protest that engages in “manufactured outrage,” then.
LOL!
It is now “uncool” to be a journalist or TV flack. They have joined trial lawyers and politicians as the lowest of the low.
The woman said she left the party and has not paid dues in two years. From the video it appears her last position with the party ended May 2008. So within the last 15 months it’s very possible she decided she no longer considers herself to be part of the Republican Party.
That should come as no surprise. It seems there are a lot of conservatives who no longer consider themselves to be Republican.
Seems the media has investigated this woman more in one day than they investigated Obama during the entire campaign.
How awful????? /sarc
She denied that she was a Republican, and some media digging turned up info that made this claim embarrassing.
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