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To: TimF who wrote (73162)	8/9/2009 9:20:32 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

That is hilarious...only because it is so close to the truth....

To: TimF who wrote (73162)	8/9/2009 10:42:37 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Astroturf Organization: Sunday, August 9, 2009 Democrats Advertising For Pro Obama Protesters on Craigs List The leadership of the Democratic party, along with their President and the Mainstream Media they control, have been making accusations about the people attending the town hall meetings. According to the Democrats, the people protesting the Obamacare are nothing but actors organized by the crazy right wing and the insurance industry. There is no proof for this charge because it isn't true. The Democrats, on the other hand are advertising for paid actors to work for the passage of Obamacare, Newsbusters reports: Take for example the following advertisement placed at the online website Craiglist Monday (h/t Patrick Ruffini): TALENTED LEADERS needed to work for health care reform $11-16/hour Or how about some of these identified by Dr. Melissa Clouthier Sunday (h/t Walt Gilbert) Aug 7 – Make social change – Help Pass Obama’s Health Care Reform!!! – (Sacramento) img < Aug 4 – Help pass Obama’s Health Care Reform!!! Earn $9-14 an hour!!! – (Sacramento) img Aug 3 – ***Help Pass Obama’s Health Care Plan and Earn $325-$500/Week – (Sacramento, CA) img < Jul 31 – Help Pass Obama’s Health Care Reform! Earn $325-550 per week! – (Sacramento) img < What do these ads seem to all have in common other than helping to pass ObamaCare? A group called The Fund for the Public Interest: Fund For The Public Interest is a national nonprofit organization working to increase the visibility, membership and political power of the nation’s leading environmental and progressive groups. The Fund was launched in 1982 to develop campaigns and technologies to engage Americans in public interest advocacy efforts. Through our fundraising and non-fundraising canvasses, we've gathered over 20 million petition signatures over the past 25 years and raised over $20 million for our partner organizations in the last year alone. Current Fund partners like Sierra Club and Human Rights Campaign are expanding their donor base and passing tougher legislation against air pollution, forest clear-cutting, hate crimes, and special interest money in politics. We owe our success to the fusion of our staff’s grassroots organizing experience, cost-conscious attitude and work ethic with our partner groups’ issue expertise, initiative and vision. Now, they're recruiting for folks to help pass ObamaCare. There is nothing illegal with their recruiting efforts, but the hypocrisy of the pro-Obamacare forces is just another example of the President's Chicago politics, place a false label on your opponents by accusing them of doing what you are doing. Just another example of how the Democratic party does not really care what their constituents think. They just want to ostracize them. tinyurl.com

To: TimF who wrote (73162)	8/10/2009 2:16:08 PM
From: Sully-	2 Recommendations Respond to of 90947

Limbaugh responds to David Brooks' "insane" comment By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 08/09/09 4:43 PM EDT Last week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that town-hall attendees critical of the Democratic health care makeover were "carrying swastikas and symbols like that" to meetings. The next day, Rush Limbaugh responded at length on his radio program, saying, "I have always bristled when I hear people claim that conservatism gets close to Nazism. It is liberalism that's the closest you can get to Nazism and socialism." On "Meet the Press" this morning, host David Gregory played a brief clip of Limbaugh's monologue -- a sentence in which Limbaugh said, "There are far more similarities between Nancy Pelosi and Adolf Hitler than between these people showing up at town halls to protest a Hitler-like policy" -- and then asked guest David Brooks to comment. "I hadn't seen the Rush Limbaugh thing," Brooks said. "That is insane. What he's saying is insane." I asked Limbaugh for a reaction, and here is his answer: <<< Everyone seems to ignore that Pelosi started this, saying town hall participants were showing up with swastikas, etc. That's calling them Nazis, as Dick Durbin referred to our Gitmo interrogators from the Senate floor. I've been listening to the left compare George W. Bush to Hitler for eight years. I've been listening to Democrats and the left compare conservatism to Nazis my whole career. This time I responded. In kind, by comparing the radical left policies of the Nazis to today's radical left leadership of the Democrat Party. I'm not surprised they don't like it. >>> Don't look for anyone to back down in this particular fight. washingtonexaminer.com