Nancy Pelosi has used the term "AstroTurf" (among others) to describe the anti-government health care attendees at the town hall conferences. Other Democrats have accused the crowds of being organized by the Republican Party and the insurance companies. We now have seen Democrats follow up on their promise to bring in their own supporters to counter the protesters. And how! In St Louis, union goons from the SEIU assaulted an anti-government health care attendee. A similar assault occurred in Tampa. Now it is clear that SEIU and ACORN, as well as other groups are turning out to support government health care at the town halls. The question begs: Which side is orchestrated and organized? That can be largely answered by asking two questions.
First question:
If you look at the videos of the demonstrations/protests or whatever you want to call them, which side usually carries professionally made posters? Which side usually carries hand-made posters? The answer is obvious. The pro-government health care folks carry professionally-made posters while the anti-government health care folks' posters are almost always hand-made.
Second question: Which side has its supporters arriving in buses? Again, the answer is easy. It's the ACORN and SEIU folks who come in the buses.
(Acorn)
So which side is "AstroTurf"?
Professionally made posters? Are you kidding me? Anybody can go to Kinko's and get something like that made. All it shows is that they were willing to put a bit more effort into their signs.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I don't think that the anti-health care protesters are "astroturf" either. They're certainly given their talking points from Fox News though, as all they seem to do is repeat what the pundits are saying. (Unless there's some footage that I haven't seen where they're not.)
That's right, Lance. Blame it all on Fox News.
ReplyDeleteUmmm...did you read what I wrote? I didn't say that. Maybe I should have worded it that they "got" their talking points from Fox News rather than stating that they were "given" them by Fox.
ReplyDeleteThat's true though - at least, much of the footage that I've seen. Some of the things that they've said are direct quotes from Fox News pundits. Maybe there are some who don't do that, as I was willing to concede in my original comment.
I stand by my original point though - anybody can get signs like that. It's not hard.