[NOTE: If you’re looking for teh funneh, this post isn’t. Because it’s true. If it was fake, it’s be hilarious. – B]
All the tea parties, all the protests at the town hall meetings, protests outside the offices of Congressmen … What does the DNC call those?
“Astroturf.” You know, appears to be a “grass roots” movement, but isn’t.
Having covered a rally by one of these conservative groups (the Columbus Georgia Tea Party), I’ve seen the hand-made signs and other things done on a budget. The kind of things that are done when individuals, not large organizations, are doing the work.
Still, the Democrats call this fake grass roots — “astroturfing.”
However, when the Democratic Party organizes a rally, it’s “grass roots.”
Last night, the DNC sent a news release out to several in the local media. The Albany (GA) Herald got one, and reported it, including getting a response from an opponent of the proposed health care bill.
A bit closer to where I am, the DNC is planning a pro-health care protest at the Columbus office of Congressman Sanford Bishop (D-GA)
As Members of Congress get ready to head back to Washington, Organizing for America (OFA), a grassroots project of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) dedicated to supporting the President’s agenda for change, will hold a rally Tuesday, September 1, 11:30 a.m. in Columbus outside of U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop’s office, 18 19th St., highlighting the strong support throughout Georgia for health insurance reform now and the importance of getting it done this year. Ga. Rep. Caroline Hugley will speak.
Yeah, you read that right. A “grass roots project of the DNC.”
And the tea parties are astroturf?
In George Orwell’s 1984, New Speak had “peace is war , love is hate, freedom is slavery…”
In 2009, the Democrats declare that organized is grass roots, and individuals are astroturf.
Seems Orwell was 25 years off.
It’s clear that such laughable stupidity is part of a new tactic that consists of pushing through legislation while the country is distracted by this laughable stupidity.
hy·poc·ri·sy
n. pl. hy·poc·ri·sies
1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
2. An act or instance of such falseness.
3. A core value in the Democrat Party Policy
Dernit, I was kinda hoping for IMAO to really bring teh funneh today, since I started my morning listening to the koolaid drinkers at work. No lie, I quote verbatim what my idiot moonbat coworkers spewed before I finally left the room in disgust and closed the door behind me:
“If you’re happy with your health care provider, then you’ll get to keep it”
“These religious people…have a moral obligation to care for the poor” (since when do moonbats care about religion? And what happened to separation of church and state?)
“Trial lawyers are only 1 percent of healthcare costs”
Sorry guys; thanks for letting me vent.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The similarities between Orwell’s 1984 and today are staggering.
Busing in SEIU goons is grass roots. Making a sign on your own as an incividual is a conspiracy. Up is down and red is blue.
Actually, Basil, making a sign on one’s own is terrifying to a liberl;. The individual is scary stuff to a marxist wimp.
@Nunya – I work with a moonbat too – he has not mentioned health care et al around me lately…a few weeks ago, I had directed him to II Thessalonians 3, then followed up with a jab of I Timothy 5.
I kinda miss watching his face turn purple, though.
With post’s like this I can see a trip to the Miniluv and room 101 in Basil’s near future! …….Big Brother, Watching you closely, Washington DC.
Arbeit Mach Frei!
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We may be astroturf but at least we ar not smokin’ it streachface!
Its like a Monty Python skit…… I say, do you see those grassroots activists over there?…..NO…… not those with the hand made signs wearing different styles of clothing…. the other group with the matching shirts with logos and those well designed placards…… smellls like democracy in action……. thats an example of the people voicing thier minds….
At this point…… Im just waitin for the first shots to be fired……
LiberalSpeak: Terorizm= ManCausedDisaster >>> Pirates= SomalianCoastGuard >>> Dhimmitude= RespectingIslamic ‘Culture’ >>> Lying=LiberalSpeak
Let us be reminded that one of principle jobs at the Ministry of Truth was the “organizing of spontaneous demonstrations”.
I’m just sayin’
~FE~