Showing posts with label Astroturfing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Astroturfing. Show all posts

Another Appalling Farce from Team Obama


The habitually dishonest Obama Administration has been caught yet again staging the type of Astroturf event they've so often accused their genuine grassroots opponents of doing.
Moonbattery observed that Obama's plastic photo op yesterday with 150 doctors on the WH lawn was intended to demonstrate widespread support for the decaying corpse of ObamaCare... creating the illusion that most doctors somehow welcome an ill-advised statist takeover that would cut their pay and destroy their private practices.
As stated in the NY Post today:
In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support
for health-care reform, the White House orchestrated a massive photo-op to
buttress its claim that front-line physicians support
Obama.
A sea of 150 white-coated doctors, all enthusiastically supportive of the president and representing all 50 states, looked as if they were at a costume party as they posed in the Rose Garden before hearing Obama's pitch for the Democratic overhaul bills moving through Congress.
The physicians, all invited guests, were told to bring their white lab coats to make sure that TV cameras captured the image.
But some docs apparently forgot, failing to meet the White House dress code by showing up in business suits or dresses.
So the White House rustled up white coats for them and handed them to the suited physicians who had taken seats in the sun-splashed lawn area.
coats.jpg

And Gateway Pundit has found that -regardless of WH spin- this was not some ordinary cross-sample of doctors- but rather, all were supporters of the public option, and many former members of 2008's Doctors for Obama organization, conveniently re-named Doctors for America this year.

FOX News reports:

White House spokesman Reid Cherlin described the assembled physicians, from all 50 states, as the best voices for reform because they witness the current health care system on a day-to-day basis.

"These folks know better than anybody about what works and what doesn't," Cherlin told FOXNews.com, adding that the physicians come from "a variety of groups that we work with."

But
the doctors in the Rose Garden were all supporters of health care reform -- and the invitation-only guest list drew heavily from Doctors for America... Roughly 98 percent of the group's 15,000 members support a public insurance option, Doctors for America spokeswoman Megan Smith told FOXNews.com.
Cherlin insisted that the doctors "were not invited based on their support for a public option."
Still the White House insisted that these doctors were not invited based on their support?

I don't know about you... but I'm sure sick of having my intelligence insulted by this crew of incompetent Alinskyite con-artists... they're not even that good at it.
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Organizing for America's TIGHTLY Scripted-and-Choreographed AstroTurfing


Moonbattery brings us this gem on the latest tricks from David Plouffe's mind-control squads:
Just how ersatz are Obamunist astroturfing activities? This latest cutting edge reporting from Sophia Elena offers a clue. Here she chats with Silas Russell of Comrade Obama's Organizing for America — we also hear once again from the skeevy Obamunist apparatchik and snitch recruiter Jeremy Bird:
Van from Moonbattery continues:
Union thugs and moonbat drones aren't even allowed to make their own signs. Only signs produced inside the Death Star are guaranteed to stay completely on message, as they are manufactured by the same evil elves who program Chairman Zero's teleprompter.
Apparently Jeremy et al. didn't want to risk any pranks.

So add this bit to their Obama-ordered repertoire of TV ads against Limbaugh, trolls carpet-bombing political message boards and blogs with "graffiti", street-muscle alliances with ACORN and unions, and other un-American stunts aimed at myriad class enemies- both real and imagined.

The Founding Fathers are surely spinning-in-their-graves- as when it comes to political intrigue and bad-faith domestic Machiavellianism, stifling dissent, and operating above-the-law the Dear Leader makes Nixon look like a piker.

More on David Plouffe's disnengenous Organizing for America -run out of the DNC- right -here-

David Plouffe

Barney Frank Employing Plants Now?


F
or fans of political theatre, the next couple months ought to provide some epic entertainment as the arrogant and detached Democrats' Big Bang legislative scheme does a face-plant... and the statists that planned to foist this on us scramble to save what they can of their agenda, power, and dignity.

Here's a great post from California patriot Left Coast Rebel, who did an impressive bit of virtual-gumshoe work in catching Mr Frank using what appears to be a plant from the union -or his staff- to play act in front of the local news cameras up in Beantown. These sort of cynical charades seems to be running rampant among nervous Democrats now... not just Team Obama.

These are guys are getting plenty desperate, and the next 40-60 days might be pretty comical as they try to keep ObamaCare together with chewing gum and duct-tape.

Great job, Rebel- you build a solid case here, photographic evidence seems indisputable...


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