From: townhall.com, by Derek Hunter, on Mar 2, 2017
The Progressive Industrial Complex has its work cut out for it. Having been roundly rejected by the American people, the American left is watching its accomplishments be deconstructed, executive order by executive order. And that which cannot be undone by the pen is slated to be dismantled by legislation. This truly has sent the left over the edge, Astroturfing town hall meetings with the help of its media collaborators.
Most journalists will not tell you this because they don’t want to admit it’s true, but the “outrage” newscasts have shown from town hall meetings with Republican members of Congress is manufactured – staged and planned as much as any TV show you’ve ever seen.
Don’t take my word for it, or the word of the countless members of Congress who’ve pointed it out. Take their word for it.
Leaked audio from a planning meeting of activists for a recent town hall meeting with U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., lays out exactly how these professional protesters planned to disrupt the event to give the impression of major push-back from average Americans on the repeal of Obamacare.
Organizers told their volunteer mob how to act, how to dress, where to sit and when to yell. Jim Henson had nothing on how choreographed these puppets were – they followed their orders to a T.
“Game plan No.1 is to fill as many seats as we can, right? If it’s all of us in there and the poor people of Breaux Bridge are sitting behind us, well then, tough luck for them,” they were told. “If we can arrange it so he doesn’t hear one sympathetic question–great. That only magnifies our impact.”
The event made news because the faux-mob booed the opening prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Making news is exactly what they said they wanted in their planning meeting. “So what we’ll do is we’ll try to dominate enough, because – remember, the camera people especially are looking for some ‘b-roll’ and some quotes,” an organizer said. These progressive props coached to appear as normal constituents couldn’t contain their disgust at these normal procedures and exposed themselves from the word go.
But this audio wasn’t the first glimpse into the machinery the left has constructed to manufacture outrage. CBS News reported on it, mostly by accident.
In a <href=”#.wkuzjip5muo.twitter”>glowing profile of a 40-year-old father of two, who seemingly has nothing better to do with his time than await daily emailed marching orders, CBS reported how this father got those orders and followed them. Not how he was outraged, but how he was mobilized like a Manchurian Candidate being told to play solitaire.
“Every day after he packs his son and daughter off to school on Chicago’s north side, 40-year-old Jeremy Reid settles onto his living room couch to get his marching orders,” CBS reported, paying no mind to what they were reporting nor saying how Reid had the time to do this “every day.”
The report continues, “He’s talking about the Progressive websites that seek to marshal his energy and meld it with millions of other opponents of the new president.”
Following marching orders is not “spontaneous,” as many reports have said these outbursts are. Yet that is what’s happening.
If the polls are to be believed (and that’s a big “IF” sometimes), Obamacare is not popular. What makes that believable is it never has polled majority support. Prices have skyrocketed, millions of Americans lost plans they liked and were forced into government-approved plans with premiums and deductibles so high anything short of a mountain falling on them will be paid out of their pockets. In short, people don’t like it.
Yet the media would have you believe an “eruption” of outrage has taken hold of the American public at the prospect of losing Obamacare. It’s not “fake news” as much as a fraud being perpetrated by self-congratulatory leftists circling the wagons to protect President Obama’s failing legacy and attempting to blame Republicans for the state of things.
Liberals have every right to protest in any way they see fit, but the media’s job is to report the truth. It’s not.
Journalists are fully aware of how the Progressive Industrial Complex operates and they willingly work to hide it.
Portrayed as the Democratic Tea Party, this coordinated, planned and funded (not the participants, but the organizations running the show are raising lots of money) effort is anything but Tea Party-esque.”
The Tea Party happened because people wanted to be left alone by their government; this contrived outrage exists to make sure the government doesn’t leave anyone alone – that it takes from some to give to others.
It’s a real thing in that people are following orders and partaking, but the sentiment behind it is political to its core. Its purpose is to harm President Trump and Republicans and help Democrats, not the American people. I don’t expect mainstream media outlets to report that, but I would expect them to at least note there are moneyed organizations with agendas sticking their hands up Kermit’s backside.
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It’s been widely reported that many of the heavily organized protests were found to be financed by billionaire George Soros-funded groups. Anti-Trump forces want us to believe that Trump is so widely despised that he can’t be effective as POTUS. They want us to think that the town hall protests represent ordinary, average Americans, but they don’t – they’re diehard political activists who are still reeling from Hillary’s loss. This is all just another of the left’s tactics to prevent President Trump from being successful
Participating groups included the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Immigration Law Center, and the Urban Justice Center to name only a few – are all funded by Soros front organizations led by his Open Society Foundation.
While it may be true that the majority of the protesters are not directly paid by Soros’ groups, they are financially supported by professional protest groups who provide training, signs and materials to make signs, transportation, etc. – in other words, everything a committed protester needs to raise hell.
If you watch some of the videos taken at these town hall meetings, it’s pretty apparent that the protesters have been coordinated, trained, and given instructions and talking shouting points by professional protest organizers – in actuality, the very definition of Astroturfed protests.
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If the Dems would leave Sessions alone long enough to do his job, it would be lovely to see him go after Soros. Stop the money, the supplies, etc and the protests stop.
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I hope that Trump stands by Sessions. Right now, I think the left smells blood in the water and will do anything to bring him down. They’ve already got one scalp, another will just embolden them with more of the same lies and distortions. They’d like nothing better than to subject Trump to a death by a thousand cuts.
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The word “protest” is on its way to becoming as meaningless as the word, “racist,” thanks again to the Left. There is nothing they won’t selfishly destroy to pursue their crazy agenda.
I agree with bescher that people from outside a rep’s district should not be allowed into the townhalls. Why should Republicans become the willing whipping boys of the leftist “disrupters?” Why help them with their propaganda material? Furthermore they should beef up security and enforce the rules of townhall decorum wherein people speak one at a time after being formally recognized. Anyone who won’t abide by the rules gets his butt thrown out. I guarantee that will resolve the problem and diffuse this strategy. The leftists can’t play by the rules.
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You’d think that by now our side would have learned that lesson – that leftists won’t play by the rules – and taken steps to force them to follow rules or be ejected. That ought to be standard operating procedure.
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The ACLU since when has it stood on the correct side? The Constitution. It has nothing to do with civil liberties and everything to do with what the progressive agenda is. Someone needs to fight them over and over again in conservative courts. I understand they take the majority of their cases to the 9th. Just like here in Wisconsin a person my elect to go to Dane County for a appeal rather than remaining in their district ( Dane county is a far left county court and county)
I think laws should be changed to only allow appeals in that jurisdiction
I also think that Townhalls should only allow citizens of that Representstive district in. Do as the left does ask for ID. They seem to get away with it why can’t we. Oh that’s right the media will step in
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An astute observation, bescher. The ACLU is almost NEVER on the side of anything that I agree with. They are anti-Constitution in just about every way possible and I also agree with your suggestion that “court shopping” ought to be discouraged, if not outlawed. It’s the same thing as judge-shopping. the same thing is true in the town halls – that could prevent the outside agitators from disrupting what could be a valuable discussion opportunity with a politician’s constituents.
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