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News Hounds: Did Hannity And Bachmann Just Make Up Their Account Of Bachmann’s Health Care Protest?
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RT @rkref: RT @thinkprogress Astroturf: R-Wing Billionaire David Koch Pays For 40 Buses To Haul In Protesters http://tr.im/EgRi #TeaBachle 29 days ago |
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RT @thinkprogress Astroturf: Right-Wing Billionaire David Koch Pays For 40 Buses To Haul In Protesters http://tr.im/EgRi #TeaBachle 29 days ago |
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RT @jhgrant: Billionaire buses in 1000s for rally. Astroturf in action. http://ow.ly/zQit 29 days ago |
Jobless Rate Hits 26-Year High: Does Obama Have an Economic Team? Where’s Their Jobs Program?
Firedoglake —
... their party’s extremism at a Bachmann rally on the Capitol steps. It was an astonishing, frightening spectacle that proved beyond doubt how (1) crazy, (2) dishonest (3) detached from reality and (4) irresponsible the party has become.
I don’t know whether Obama ever believed he could work with a party that has sought to demonize and deligitimize him since January, told him they want him to fail, and is now recklessly toying with an angry, manipulated populist insurrection. But there’s no excuse for such delusions ...
Did Hannity And Bachmann Just Make Up Their Account Of Bachmann’s Health Care Protest?
News Hounds —
... , too. She also got plenty of help from the astroturfing specialists, Americans For Prosperity, the corporate front group that helped organize the event and provided buses to bring protesters there free of charge. Not that Hannity thought that worth mentioning when he was extolling the (phony) size of the crowd. ...
Billionaires for Right-Wing Populism
Matthew Yglesias —
... One under-discussed element of the recent upsurge of right-wing populism in the form of “tea parties” and such is how much of it is directly underwritten by the wealthiest people in America. David Koch and Charles Koch of Koch Industries, for example, are #37 and #38 on the Forbes 400 list. They’re also major donors to a number of right-wing causes, including Americans for Prosperity, which is chaired by David. And as several AFPers were willing to discuss with my colleague Lee Fang yesterday, that Koch money helped pay for 40 buses to bring people to the tea ...
Republican Health Care Still an Oxymoron
The Mahablog —
... So yesteday the insurance industry and other parts of the medical-industrial complex funneled money through Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the corporate front group founded by Koch Industries billionaire David Koch, to bring busloads of hysterical people to Washington to demonstrate. Most accounts put the crowd at between 3,000 and 5,000, although a ...
Bachmann Claims Anti-Health Reform Rally Was ?Organic,? ?Nothing That We Planned?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... nothing that we planned . We didn’t order one bus, one carload. Nothing. Complete word of mouth. And estimates are anywhere between 20 and 45,000 people had assembled. […] And also this absolutely outstanding grouping of people that we had today at the Capitol. This is organic. It was a meet up. It was spontaneous . Watch it: Bachmann’s claim is laughable. Aside from her leadership in organizing the protest, the corporate front group Americans For Prosperity helped coordinate. AFP mobilized about 40 buses to bring activists to DC, with AFP staffers standing at their ...
Will Financial Regulatory Reform Be a Break With Legislative Trench Warfare?
Matthew Yglesias —
... to the Dodd plan seems like a very typical root-and-branch rejection. And the reality is that Tea Party populism is uninformed and completely incoherent. Tea Parties claim to believe they wish the government hadn’t rescued the banking system last fall, but I haven’t seen a single sign at a rally or a single quote from a rallier to suggest support for enhanced regulation. Glenn Beck isn’t calling for enhanced regulation. The Koch family isn’t going to start busing people to pro-regulation rallies. ...
