10,000 Turn Out In DC To Attack Insurance Co. Profits; Network News Ignores Them

[meegbear]

It got a brief mention on some of the cable channels, but the only major TV network that carried live coverage of this healthcare reform rally in D.C. yesterday was Fox - and then, only to ridicule it:

The reason? AHIP, the health insurance lobbying organization, was meeting in (where else?) the Ritz-Carlton. A coalition of groups led by unions including SEIU, AFSCME, UFCW and Health Care for American Now declared the meeting site a "corporate crime scene" and attempted to make a citizens' arrest:

In a reverse twist on the old protestors' tactic of getting arrested to make a point, union leaders and other backers of President Obama's healthcare plan issued "citizen's arrest" warrants for health insurance executives Tuesday – accusing them of exploiting consumers.

The "warrants," delivered to police during a demonstration outside an insurance industry meeting at a Washington hotel, were an attempt to dramatize protestors' call for insurance reform – and to build public support for the Democrats' healthcare legislation.

The demonstration, which drew several thousand protestors from as far away as Illinois and California, was organized by groups that for more than a year have pushed Congress to create a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers as part of national healthcare overhaul.

While that policy objective, known as the public option, is not part of the healthcare legislation pending in Congress, the groups are nonetheless mounting a multi-million dollar campaign to promote the bill. The effort will continue in coming weeks, with more demonstrations, paid advertising and other events, including a hearing to take place Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

Boy, there was a time when you couldn't turn on the TV without seeing someone about Tea Party rallies. I guess the only way you can get on TV these days is to be on the side of the insurance companies.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/10000-turn-out-dc-attack-insurance-co

[xchrom]

1. Recommend

[rocktivity]

2. TEN thousand? Even Countdown said it was only ONE thousand

:(
rocktivity

[meegbear]

7. That may be a typo ...

if C&L changes it, I'll modify appropriately.

[blm]

3. NOTHING will change the fascist path the nation is on until corpmedia's exposed as fascism's #1 tool

Period.

[HughBeaumont]

4. Just like I'm sure they'll ignore us next Saturday.

Maybe if we went as the Tea Klux Klan, or told them it was a teabagathon . . .. then they'd show up in droves. :)

[Echo In Light]

5. Where are the moderates who insist there isn't an ideological drive fueling M$M's choice of coverage

???

[midnight]

6. K&R for our brothers and sisters sticking up for consumer rights.... Big thanks...

[DFab420]

8. K&R HOWEVER..That's a very unreal number

While I agree that it sucks no one covered it..10,000 people? I doubt that, early reports had the crowd at 500, then rising to about 1,000...even it were more I very much doubt 10,000 people were there.

It does us no good to lie or even embellish the numbers for dramatic effect..Makes us look like Tbaggers

[DFab420]

9. damn dbl post n/t

[OneBlueSky]

10. of course they ignored them . . . the networks are part of massive megacorps . . .

the insurance industry is all massive megacorps . . . just watching out for their own kind, don'tcha know . . .

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Was shown on ABC Nightly News last night.

[G_j]

12. K&R