MSNBC talking about disrupted town halls. . OMITTING the "memo"

[annabanana]

discovery.

They are leaving the impression that these disruptions are NOT astro-turf.

A leaked memo from Bob MacGuffie, a volunteer with the FreedomWorks website Tea Party Patriots, details how members should be infiltrating town halls and harassing Democratic members of Congress

Here's the leaked memo:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/townhallactionmemo.pdf

email them & tell them to tell the WHOLE STORY

[email protected]

[malaise]

1. Unbelievable

Tweety, KO and Rachael will expose that shortly

[annabanana]

2. Considering that the memo surfaced right after that first disrupted meeting

(Tim Bishop, NY)

[janx]

8. That one was the worst I've seen yet! n/t

[quiet.american]

3. We knew it. We knew that's exactly what would happen. nt

[Cha]

4. Rec'd! And, a kick for contacting msnbc about "the memo"..

msnbc- Phone: [phone]

[annabanana]

7. oooo. . thank-you!

1-212-664-4444

[heppcatt]

5. Of course this is a grass roots movement

[Cha]

9. Of course, it's fucking astro turf..

fake shit.

[glitch]

11. of the genetically modified, round-up ready variety.

They've ruined their own credibility with this sort of "news management"

[newspeak]

22. yeah, the teabaggers have such a grass root movement

that the corporate networks and the health corps. are all behind them. Because, yah know, those corporate people they just love them some gullible peeps to do their dirty work. Grassroots, yeah right!!!!!

Now the anti-war movement was grassroots--let's see, I didn't hear any corporate network calling for ya'll to go protest that lie of a war--no network told you where you could meet up with fellow protestors (unlike the teabag protests), and I saw very few network photos of the tens of thousands of protestors in Washington DC unlike a few hundred of the teabaggers showing 24/7 on the network news. Yeah, that's some grassroots movement ya'll got there.

[Joanne98]

6. Done

[eleny]

10. Bob MacGuffie deserves a "Worst Person" from Olbermann

[BlooInBloo]

12. The astro-turf memo is on msnbc now - the hottie talking head with Dick Durbin.

[eleny]

18. Tamron Hall

[BlooInBloo]

21. Ah - thanks!

[BR_Parkway]

13. How much money will M$NBC lose from Big Pharma if single payer

were to pass?

[eleny]

14. T. Hall now talking with Sem. Durbin about "the memo"

[Joanne98]

15. They're talking about the memo now. That was QUICK!

:fistbump:

[BlooInBloo]

17. Yah - I figured it wouldn't be on until tomorrow.

[malaise]

16. DIck Durbin just exposed the memo on Shuster and Tamron n/t

[global1]

19. MSM Will Be Playing The Video's Of These Disruptions Throughout The Congressional Recess......

All the Repugs need is one video like the one from Texas - Doggett. MSM will be playing this all of August. All they need is one such display of ignorance and they'll turn it into a big deal and say that people everywhere are reacting like this.

This is organized and staged for effect. I went to a Town Hall in the Chicago Area about 2 weeks ago - a Dem Congressman that borders on being a Blue Dog. He still hasn't declared whether he is for a strong 'public option' yet.

Anyway - at least one attendee at that Town Hall was carrying a "Don't Thread On Me" flag like the one in the video from Texas.
There were about 300 people at the Town Hall I attended and I would say about 90% supported the public option.

What are we going to do about outbreaks like this? I think the Repugs will stage these all over the country over this recess.

We can yell louder and there's more of us that want this than don't. We need to fight fire with fire. Yell louder and maker bigger signs.

Remember this? Well they're doing it again.

[Orsino]

20. Is this astroturfery?

Sounds like mere organizing, unless they're busing in agitators to pretend to be locals.

[redqueen]

23. Did you read the memo?

It seems aimed more at disruption and intimidation than conveying their support / opposition.

Also, having PR firms and lobbyists involved... yeah... I dunno.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6193681

[Orsino]

24. But is is astroturfing?

If their protesters are real, "concerned" citizens of the districts they're haranguing?

[redqueen]

25. Yes, it is astroturfing. (nt)

[Orsino]

26. Because the protesters' intent is purely disruptive? n/t

[redqueen]

27. No, because the insurance industry & lobbyists for the same are involved.

From TPM:

The same lobbyist-run groups which orchestrated the tea party protests — Americans for Prosperity, run by a former associate of Jack Abramoff, and FreedomWorks, run by former Republican Majority Leader and current lobbyist Dick Armey — are now pushing to use the August recess as an opportunity to present a guise of public opposition to health care reform. ThinkProgress obtained a leaked memo from Bob MacGuffie, a volunteer with Tea Party Patriots, a website sponsored by Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, that details how members should be infiltrating town halls and harassing Democratic members of Congress. Recommended tactics include: “yell,” “stand up and shout,” and “rattle” lawmakers.

[Orsino]

28. Because corporate money seems to be directing at least part of it? n/t