Lobbying Group Holds ‘WHITE TRASH RECEPTION’ On Capitol Hill

[Segami]

" Washington may seem dead in the Summer, but there is one event happening on Capitol Hill next week that will cause at least a bit of a stir. The health care lobbying group Strategic Health Care will be holding a “White Trash Reception” on July 19th:




Strategic Health Care says that it regularly throws themed parties where lobbyists and people in the health industry can mingle with Capitol Hill staffers. This event’s theme, however, drives home an image of high-paid Washington lobbyists gathering to snicker at low-income, white Americans. And the event particularly stings because health care lobbyists at Strategic Health Care profit from pharmaceutical companies that make their money on expensive drugs that low income Americans of all races frequently have to turn their pockets inside out to pay for.




http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/09/513181/white-trash-reception/

[Turbineguy]

1. I'm gettin' me

a brand new wifebeater shirt to wear to that little shindig!

[Segami]

2. Make sure you sport a tie,..I think its formal! lol!

Who the hell dreams up such nonsense?

[Turbineguy]

7. An excelent suggestion!

http://www.zazzle.com/master_baiter_ties-151242770910360869

[progressivebydesign]

9. oh it's all fun and games until someone falls on their banjo! n/t

[Blue Owl]

3. They got lotsa them fancy plastic terlits

n/t

[Rain Mcloud]

4. Gotta get mah Mullet tricked up

fer thet Hooternanny.
Derla! Put on them glass clogs,were gwone to D.C. after yuh fetch me a Milwaukee's Finest!
Gonna tell 'em what I thank about that Obamma Car and spit some beechnut in 'is eye.
Dangdold Muslim born in 'Awaiyuh whevver that is.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Yee-hawww!

Loretta, wash them good overalls, we's goin' ta Warshinton!

[Segami]

6. HAHAHA!

[progressivebydesign]

8. Why can't ABC or MSNBC actually report this???

I think the salt-of-the-earth voters that the GOP tramples over on their way to Koch Billions, should REALLY see what those folks think of the average voter.

[progressoid]

10. Somebody thought this was a good idea?

[Quantess]

15. A couple of people wanted to have a blackface minstrel theme party

but they got talked out of it.

[JHB]

24. This is Republicans we're talking about. You need to ask?

[SoutherDem]

11. At first I couldn't decide if this was real or satire.

Apparently it is real. I hope someone will pick this up in the national media. It shows the distain they have for the American people.

[Segami]

12. A ' Public Apology ' would be in order but don't hold your breath for such to materialize.

[Freddie Stubbs]

23. "We apologize to any White Trash we may have offended"

[cwydro]

16. yeah

good to know there are still groups that can be safely made fun of....this is a regular funfest on DU

[RandiFan1290]

26. You attack DU

But have nothing to say about the people putting this even on. How strange...

[Fumesucker]

28. Meh, I hear lots of disparaging talk here about "white trash"..

Talk that would never be allowed to stand if it was about some other more favored group..

People living in glass houses really should refrain from chunking bricks at others..

[whathehell]

30. That is TRULY ugly.

Please tell me it's Repukes staging and attending.

[loudsue]

13. Subtitle should be: The Audacity of Dopes n/t

[PADemD]

14. Contact info here:

http://strategichealthcare.net/contact/

[Ship of Fools]

17. DAMMIT! Only DU can mock the mullets.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Reminds me of that Halloween party that Wall Street firm had

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/what-the-costumes-reveal.html?_r=3

[progressoid]

19. Good God.

[Zalatix]

20. You want to know what's wrong with America?

That party didn't lead to a bunch of lynchings.

America is so far lost that the working class will accept being mocked.

[PotatoChip]

27. Wow. I *really* hope that Karma

kicks these pompous, condescending, jerks right in the a**.

Every last one of them, including the lobbying group in the OP.

[whathehell]

31. Yes, but, if I'm not mistaken,

that company was penalized for that, yes?

[rightwinghunter666]

21. It's Amazing

how the Wall Street, Fox News and the rest of the right manipulates poorer working class whites into thinking that are all on the same side. Well here you have them openly mocking poor whites and using them for fodder. In a sinister way you got to respect how the machine gets voters to consistently against their own economic interest. Let me guess this probably won't get picked up by the MSM.

[JHB]

22. Didn't Mitt have a couple of these over the weekend?

The clueless, dopey stuff that came out of his donors' mouths marked them as trash, no matter what neighborhood they live in.

[JHB]

25. Well, someone knows where it's being held...

Even if it's a private place (a townhouse, apparently), attendees still have to go in and out.

Even better, have a camera crew dressed close enough to "in costume" that they can let people assume they're part of the event and get some candid interviews.

[get the red out]

29. The irony is

Those are the looks sported by guys that will run you off the road for having an Obama sticker on your car in some areas. But their "masters" can make fun of them all the way to the bank and no one notices.