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     Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1646 Registered: 09-2006 |
Cute line, though I hope it doesn't create the misconception in the mind of even one person that they were able to gather anything close to a million. Oops, too late... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1426 Registered: 08-2006 |
Good ol' Bill Maher. The quote comes from this: http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heat her/real-time-new-rules-grow-set-and-sta nd-70 You're right, Allen. Apparently, the execrable Michelle Malkin was trumpeting 1.5 million attendees at this celebration of low I.Q.s and mental illness. The real number was closer to 60,000. Still, you get the feeling these folks are receiving some capitulation from the Obama White House. Why? You think you're gonna win these folks over, Barack? They wouldn't stop detesting you if you showed up at their houses with a Publisher's Clearinghouse check for $1 million and exclusive drilling rights in the Arctic National Refuge. I've never seen a tinier and more worthless minority given this kind of disproportionate voice in an important national debate. As Maher says, how 'bout some love for the 70% of Americans who can actually locate the United States on a map? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3103 Registered: 05-2005 |
How come US newspapers don't do polls asking the electorate if they want proper health care or not? This kind of stuff would be polled to death in most countries. I imagine the answer would be a resounding "yes, I do want proper healthcare". | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1755 Registered: 10-2004 |
Here's a slideshow I found of some of the ~40,000 protesters from Sunday. The epic disconnect from reality, coupled with the racism, makes for a scary crowd. These people are batshit crazy. http://www.flickr.com/photos/42406957@N04/sets/72157622225596987/show/ | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1427 Registered: 08-2006 |
From Hendrik Hertzberg in the New Yorker: "The protesters do not look to politicians for leadership. They look to niche media figures like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and their scores of clones behind local and national microphones. Because these figures have no responsibilities, they cannot disappoint. Their sneers may be false and hateful -- they all routinely liken the President and the “Democrat Party” to murderous totalitarians -- but they are employed by large, nominally respectable corporations and supported by national advertisers, lending them a considerable measure of institutional prestige. The dominant wing of the Republican Party is increasingly an appendage of the organism -- the tail, you might say, though it seems to wag more often from fear than from happiness. Many Republican officeholders, even some reputed moderates like Senator Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, have obediently echoed the foul nonsense." | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1428 Registered: 08-2006 |
Oh, and Padraig, there has been LOTS of polling done on healthcare, most of it showing majority support for a public option, especially when it's described as something that promotes competition and covers the uninsured. And if older folks could be convinced that a public option wouldn't mess with their Medicare, the numbers would be higher. But it doesn't matter - polls speak, the teabaggers scream, Fox News and their lackeys in Congress amplify the noise and the debate gets distorted. Sad. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3107 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Rob. |