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CNN's "Deuling Busses" (Astroturf, anyone?)
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Posted on 09/05/2009 10:11:36 AM PDT by GVnana

You remember the song “Dueling Buses” from the film Deliverance? Oh, that’s right — the phrase dueling buses is the tagline CNN has politely given to the latest White House strategy to combat opposition to ObamaCare. Taking a page directly out of the opponent’s playbook, Obama’s on-again off-again organizing arm Organizing for America is conducting a cross-country bus tour to rival the Tea party Express, which started its journey August 28. Well, they say imitation is the highest form of flattery.

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See if you can guess which picture represents true grass-roots support and which is a staged organizing event of the sort Democrats claim to deplore.



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1 posted on 09/05/2009 10:11:37 AM PDT by GVnana
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To: GVnana

Reminds me of this Iowahawk post:

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/08/know-your-town-hall-mob-agitators.html


2 posted on 09/05/2009 10:15:21 AM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: GVnana

But, but, but...they’re waving the flag!


3 posted on 09/05/2009 10:15:43 AM PDT by Kimberly GG
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To: bamahead
Note that their signs are scrawled, fiendishly tricking cameramen into closeups. All are expertly handmade, an expensive graphic design luxury only affordable to their puppet masters in the drug and insurance cartels. Note these mobs are so well paid for their agitation that they actually arrived in their own cars and expensive non-matching t-shirts. Fishy? You bet! Report them at once!

LOL!

4 posted on 09/05/2009 10:18:12 AM PDT by GVnana (Sarah for America)
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To: GVnana
You have to wonder what is going thru their minds. They know the signs are preprinted and the people are rented. I guess thats why they shout out when one of the big cons walk in. Something to do.
5 posted on 09/05/2009 10:22:16 AM PDT by Domangart (editor and publisher)
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To: bamahead

Lemme see...
In the one picture, all the signs are professionally printed, and all the same;
in the other picture, the signs are painfully obviously amateur efforts.

Naw, I can’t tell: Which is the staged rally?
/sarc


6 posted on 09/05/2009 10:26:18 AM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Redbob

The real tipoff is the 42” or better Flat Screen Monitor......


7 posted on 09/05/2009 10:32:05 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: GVnana

Grassroots according to Pelosi. /sarcasm


8 posted on 09/05/2009 10:39:33 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Gaffer
The real tipoff is the 42” or better Flat Screen Monitor......

Ha! Which is probably just like home for most of the attendees who "can't afford" health insurance.

9 posted on 09/05/2009 10:54:38 AM PDT by GVnana (Sarah for America)
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To: GVnana
The one on the left reminds me of mannequins on parade.
10 posted on 09/05/2009 11:11:18 AM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
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To: GVnana
JUST LOOK at all those mass-produced, heartless, robototron signs printed up on the Left, and all those hand made, from -the-hear, individual initiative based signs on the Right.

That, alone, in that photo, SPEAKS VOLUMES!!

Also, the are getting palpitatingly desperate, it is really beginning to show. I love it.


11 posted on 09/05/2009 11:13:17 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Hardcore Left must be saying "Funny! The VRWC is boiling mad, yet their RINO leaders won't do jack")
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To: Kimberly GG

Yeah, they are, but the flags will be in the dumpster after the event is concluded.


12 posted on 09/05/2009 11:26:34 AM PDT by TheBlueMax ("Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. " (Ronald Reagan))
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To: Kimberly GG

But, but, but...they’re waving the flag!
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Yeah....but they don’t honor it, pledge to it, serve it, die for it. That’s reserved only for Dear Leader.


13 posted on 09/05/2009 11:33:51 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell)
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To: GVnana

I swear. I cannot WAIT until the day when I NEVER SEE that damned ‘Obama Logo’ again. It can’t get here soon enough.


14 posted on 09/05/2009 11:35:21 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell)
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“I swear. I cannot WAIT until the day when I NEVER SEE that damned ‘Obama Logo’ again. It can’t get here soon enough.”

I wonder how much THAT stage cost to manufacture. The amount of PROPAGANDA that they continue to dump on us is AMAZING!!!!

15 posted on 09/05/2009 12:27:14 PM PDT by oiler (Reagan Republicans Unite!!!!! It's the Constitution Stupid. Palin and Bachmann in 2012)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

If you want to see something heart warming, check this out:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2332914/posts


16 posted on 09/05/2009 12:33:19 PM PDT by GVnana (Sarah for America)
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To: GVnana
Have you noticed that the color blue is always present when these wee-weenies come together. Whether it's a press conference ( where the people who are called upon are usually wearing blue ) or phony events like this.
17 posted on 09/05/2009 12:42:29 PM PDT by ditto h
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To: GVnana

Is there a hint? The obvious picture is placed on the FAR LEFT of the page.


18 posted on 09/05/2009 1:06:56 PM PDT by Dream Warrior (Never underestimate the POWER of an ARROGANT President and Congress!)
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To: GVnana

Stupid sheople, the dems have to pay them, give them free meals and make their signs to get them to show up. Half of them probably get their free food and haul as* out of there.


19 posted on 09/05/2009 3:23:52 PM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: GVnana
Uh..."Dueling Buses," not "Deuling Busses."

Reading the title, I had hoped for something like...


but worried it might be like this...



20 posted on 09/05/2009 4:06:38 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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