What a surprise
By W.C. Varones ~ July 2nd, 2009 @ 9:04 pm
All of the “ordinary citizens” called on at the ABC Obama infomercial Virginia “town hall” were Obama/left-wing activists:
“The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.”
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July 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 pm
The audacity of hope was for his campaign
Supporting tyranny and thuggery are for his reign
His candidacy was rather like that of a Henry Houdini
His presidency is shaping up to be much more like that of a Benito Mussolini
Although he tries to slip it all in under another guise
To all his fascist action most foul we must still be wise
In spite of all the Houdini lies
Dancing in Obama’s Mussolini eyes
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:23 am
Clever, Anon.
Very good!
July 3rd, 2009 at 6:46 am
I could be wrong but this didn’t happen on the ABC propagandafest. It happened earlier this week at another “townhall” meeting.
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:11 am
Thanks DSM
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:55 am
HA HA
It doesn’t matter that much (but it is good to keep the facts straight) because every press conference, town hall meeting or interview is handled the exact same way. Just change the event name and date and keep the same story. The questioners are all in the bag for Obama and the audience is always stacked.
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:02 am
Get the Glen Greenwald podcast from itunes. It’s really good.
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:09 am
Ah yes! More wingnut outrage on crap that was perfectly acceptable under Dubya’s administration.
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:34 am
Glen Greenwald isn’t necessarily a liberal. He has done research for CATO Institute and he’s written for the American Conservative (founded by Pat Buchanan.)
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
The questioners are all in the bag for Obama and the audience is always stacked.
Not unlike Bush or McCain or Palin Town Halls.
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Speaking of Palin…
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
ineffective man child at work
(h/t) Instapundit
EXAMINER: No Second Stimulus, Please. “Be sure to thank the President and Congress. This week, with news of some 467,000 jobs lost in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the U.S. has now lost about two million jobs since the economic stimulus package passed. Even more notable is that the average workweek has been slashed to 33 hours – the lowest number on record. When the President signed his $787 billion stimulus package into law, he confidently asserted that unemployment would not exceed eight percent. If Congress hadn’t passed it, he warned, it would rise to nine percent by 2010. Well, unemployment reached 9.5 percent last month, meaning, by the President’s own logic, that his stimulus package has failed.”
July 4th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Jake,
At the risk of being way too late to this topic, I’ll respond…
You mean like the phony Clinton ‘private moment’ at the grave of a soldier where he just happened to arrange stones into a cross. Maybe the cross thing was spontaneous, but the whole private walk was staged.
As were countless other attempts to mold opinion using random people who later turn out to be plants. Happens so often by every side, you can’t really be petty about how only ‘your party and not our party’ does that.
When it does happen, it gets to be pointed out for the phoney baloney that it is. A greater man as president wouldn’t need to get today’s people to agree with him.
And for me, makes me guess he’s more of the empty suit I suspected all along.
I hope I’m wrong.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:39 am
Truthfully, this was a really outstanding post. In hypothesis I’d like to drop a line like this too – taking time and real effort to make a complete article… but what can I say… I dilly-dally a lot and never seem to get something done.