{"id":804,"date":"2009-08-10T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2009-08-10T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T13:42:10","slug":"the-lefts-astroturf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/the-lefts-astroturf\/","title":{"rendered":"The left&#8217;s Astroturf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far hard left extremist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/democrats.html\">democrats<\/a> like Nancy Pelosi and Barbra Boxer are accusing the American Citizens who are questioning our <em>Dear Leader<\/em>&#8216;s plan for socializing our medical system of being <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/08\/09\/and-this-isnt-astroturfing\/\">organized &#8220;Astroturf&#8221;<\/a> instead of being the legitimate grassroots movement it is. \u00a0This is hardly surprising, since it&#8217;s the only way they can get people to &#8220;protests&#8221; who support their platform.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s review the facts of the matter. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/7FF3F16040EB61A58625760C00690E48?OpenDocument\">Take a look at the folks who show up to oppose socializing our medical system<\/a>. \u00a0They are dressed like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjtv.com\/video\/PJTV_Daily\/___Meet_The_Mob:_Mother,_Blogger,_ObamaCare_Protester\/2296\/\">ordinary people<\/a>, they are carrying homemade signs, and <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/08\/09\/video-c-span-caller-blasts-media\/\">they probably took time off from work, i.e. not getting paid<\/a>, in order to ask simple questions of their elected representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Now compare these to the <em>so-called<\/em> &#8220;protesters&#8221; who show up to support the left&#8217;s march to Socialism. <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/08\/07\/nancy-pelo-cchios-astroturf-brigade\/\">Denver photojournalist El Marco points out<\/a> that those &#8220;protesters&#8221; &#8220;had to be coached by professional organizers \u2014 including several day laborers who didn\u2019t speak English and couldn\u2019t tell what the signs they were holding read.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How did the left get those &#8220;protesters?&#8221; It&#8217;s simple, they paid them. \u00a0Really. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.melissaclouthier.com\/2009\/08\/09\/health-care-obamas-mercenaries-vs-freedom-fighters\/\">Check out these ads on Craigs List<\/a>. In addition to the paid &#8220;protesters&#8221;, the left brought out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=--ZJhR3T4aw\">ACORN aggitators and Union thugs<\/a>. \u00a0The staffers running democrat &#8220;town hall&#8221; meetings are denying access to taxpaying citizens while flooding the room with their ringers. \u00a0If voting tax payers do manage to get in, they are then <a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/tea-party-protesters-attacked-1-man.html\">physically attacked by leftist Union thugs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thedanashow.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/07\/breaking-carnahan-staffer-admits-to-causing-trouble\/\">professional aggitators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/shocker-keith-olbermann-lies-about-tea.html\">the usual suspects are ignoring the truth and simple facts and spreading lies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/08\/10\/better-astroturfing-through-craigslist\/\">George Soros pours another $5 Million into leftist Astroturn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 24px\/normal Georgia, serif; color: #72123b; margin: 0px;\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far hard left extremist democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Barbra Boxer are accusing the American Citizens who are questioning our Dear Leader&#8216;s plan for socializing our medical system of being organized &#8220;Astroturf&#8221; instead of being the legitimate grassroots movement it is. \u00a0This is hardly surprising, since it&#8217;s the only way they can get people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,45,19,29],"tags":[125,251,262,621],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-free-speech-politics","category-politics","category-tea-party","tag-astroturf","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-cY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}