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Democrat Dingell Likens Town Hallers To KKK

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Democrats, Health Care, Partisan Hacks, Video

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Seriously, I don’t get this dumb strategy of painting town hall folks, whether they’re astroturfers or not, as Un-American, like the KKK, etc. It’s not only counterproductive, it’s completely lazy. You could easily marginalize purposefully rowdy people with the facts of the debate and yet this is what we get?

As I’ve said before, if health care reform fails I’m laying the responsibility for that right on the doorsteps of Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer. This systematic demonization of protesters is ridiculous as they had absolutely no problem with anti-war protesters 3 years ago.

More as it develops…


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3 Responses to “Democrat Dingell Likens Town Hallers To KKK”

  1. Tim in Wisconsin Says:
    August 11th, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    Justin, question: how is drowning out opposing views not un-American? That’s all that Pelosi said. Petitioning the government for a redress of grievances is as American as it gets, but out-shouting your opponents flies in the face of that.

  2. Jimmy the Dhimmi Says:
    August 11th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    Check out what happened in France last night:

    Restive youths in a Paris suburb torched a tourist bus and nearly a half-dozen cars and hurled objects at police early Tuesday, a night after fullblown unrest prompted by the death of a teen fleeing police.

    I love America. Do you realize how great this country is when a bunch of middle-aged people wearing loafers and knee-high white socks shouting over eachother in the parking-lot of a suburban junior-high school is considered “mob rule,” or something akin to a public lynching?

  3. Nick Benjamin Says:
    August 12th, 2009 at 12:26 am

    Tim,

    I don’t think Justin is necessarily disagreeing with you on the facts. He’s claiming that it’s really dumb politics to call these people out because when you do so the debate over whether we should fix health care ends. The debate becomes “are these guys raucous demonstrators or evil people.”

    If we want 2008 to remembered a s a Change Election we have to get important stuff passed. Period. If web don’t the 2010 midterms will come around, turnout will be an anemic 35%, and we’ll get our asses kicked because the crazies sabotaging our forums are most of that 35%.

    Him being a goody-toe-shoes and all that he’s probably also concerned about abstract stuff like the right to protest. But I suck at that abstract stuff so I’ll just pretend it doesn’t exist.

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