Townhall resistance "the large crowds are PROOF they are busing people in"

[underpants]

Just caught some Rush Limbaugh. I take one for the team.

He specifically cited the turn out at McClintock's town hall last night in California. Rush said there were 900 people there (The Sac Bee says 500 ) which "is more than half the people in his district". Uh, Rush you moron Congressional districts aren't made up of 1,800 people.

He went on the day the Tea Party weren't organized, weren't sponsored, they were just ordinary Americans acting on their own. No mention of the massive news coverage promoting them.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Oh Dear Lord!

They need to stop.

Meanwhile at Raritan Valley Community College tonight (Leonard Lance Town Hall) we are anxious about parking facilities.

Meaning - we are trying to get people to car pool.

Let's let the Republicans tell any lie they want. For ours - the many groups leadership spoke up quickly and candidly that we only wanted residents in the district to attend - and speakers from within the district.

[riversedge]

2. nytimes The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party

And of course Rush listeners believe no one donated to the Tea Party!!

Only one article of hundreds that popped up!


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html


The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Columnist
The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party

By FRANK RICHAUG. 28, 2010
Continue reading the main story


ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where they jeered the “ground zero mosque.” This weekend, the scene shifted to Washington, where the avatars of oppressed white Tea Party America, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, were slated to “reclaim the civil rights movement” (Beck’s words) on the same spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had his dream exactly 47 years earlier.

Vive la révolution!

There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well before the “death panel” warm-up acts of last summer. Three heavy hitters rule. You’ve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other two, the brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a combined wealth exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among Americans. But even those carrying the Kochs’ banner may not know who these brothers are.

Their self-interested and at times radical agendas, like Murdoch’s, go well beyond, and sometimes counter to, the interests of those who serve as spear carriers in the political pageants hawked on Fox News. The country will be in for quite a ride should these potentates gain power, and given the recession-battered electorate’s unchecked anger and the Obama White House’s unfocused political strategy, they might.

All three tycoons are the latest incarnation of what the historian Kim Phillips-Fein labeled “Invisible Hands” in her prescient 2009 book of that title: those corporate players who have financed the far right ever since the du Pont brothers spawned the American Liberty League in 1934 to bring down F.D.R. You can draw a straight line from the Liberty League’s crusade against the New Deal “socialism” of Social Security, the Securities and Exchange Commission and child labor laws to the John Birch Society-Barry Goldwater assault on J.F.K. and Medicare to the Koch-Murdoch-backed juggernaut against our “socialist” president.

[underpants]

4. Thank you for the link

Greatly appreciated.

[CrispyQ]

3. Democrats should have taken hate/lie radio seriously decades ago. -nt

[Initech]

5. Hey Rush, we're tired of your bullshit!

The republicans stole 2016, and we're going to let them know at every move they make!

[Beartracks]

6. What a dumb argument, Rush. n/t