Only a few days after declaring protesters at town hall events “un-American” (and less than a day after a White House spokesman made the ludicrous claim that people were showing up at town halls dressed up as Adolph Hitler) Nancy Pelosi and the White House have now decreed that there actually aren’t any protesters at all!
It’s magic, I tell ya!
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Thursday argued that despite extensive media coverage of the protests at some lawmakers’ town halls, “I hate to break it to you: I don’t think all the town halls are as you’re seeing them on TV. … While I appreciate that you all have decided that every town-hall meeting ends in pushing, shoving and yelling, I don’t think many, well, I don’t know how many town halls you all have been to. They’re not completely indicative of what’s going on in America.”
The DNC released a statement arguing that “outside the echo chamber of 24-hour cable news, Americans all across the country are attending town halls, holding coffee shop conversations and engaging in respectful, honest debates about the best way to achieve health insurance reform.”
The DNC release pointed to events in North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, California, Indiana, Ohio, Washington state and other areas that have not featured the kind of ugly protests that have been the focus on national news reports.
Similarly, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) office Thursday afternoon released a similar “fact sheet” detailing events where no protests occurred.
Tah Dah! They aren’t un-American, they’re un-PERSONS. They have been memory holed because the protesters are gathering sympathy from unaffiliated voters who see or hear about the protests. The solution: no more protests.
Look for the Obama supporting media to suddenly lose interest in anything resembling a town hall. Get those video cameras rolling and get the footage on YouTube. Because, as un-persons, we no longer exist as far as the Obama-worshiping media is concerned.
Keep up the pressure folks, they’re scared and they are doing stupid things as a result.
Actually they are right. In real America, outside the Democratic echo chamber of our betters inside the beltway, there HAS been a well thought out and civil discussion of the merits of the Democratic health care “plan.”
Turns out it doesn’t have any merits.
Turns out “we the people” (or a healthy majority of them) think it pretty much sucks. And more and more people think that with each passing day.
“We the people” only get worked up when our supposed “representatives” come to town halls to inform us of how stupid we all are.