FreedomWorks offers fake "apology" to supporters of healthcare reform

[derby378]

FreedomWorks, the conservative "free-market" think tank that has unapologetically rallied protesters at health care town hall meetings, paused its movement against President Obama's health care plans today to instead take aim at its liberal counterparts.

Liberal groups are responsible for the hostile, threatening phone calls FreedomWorks has been receiving, the group says, and it is taking an unusual tactic -- issuing an open, facetious "apology" to left-wing groups -- to make that point.

FreedomWorks says it has been unfairly blamed for the hostility that has cropped at town hall meetings and that its "apology" is a part of its strategy to bring more attention to its own ideas for health care reform -- like tort reform and allowing consumers to purchase insurance across state lines.

Opponents, however, say there is no organization behind the calls to FreedomWorks -- while pointing out that there has been hostility from both conservatives and liberals -- and that the apology is simply another distraction from the real health care debate.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/12/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5237285.shtml

From the FreedomWorks "apology" - so you don't have to visit their site:

Today, FreedomWorks released an apology to leftist political organizations, including MoveOn.org, the Democratic National Committee, the AFL-CIO, and ACORN for our apparent ignorance of the fine art of political discourse.

FreedomWorks' August Recess Call to Action encouraged grassroots citizens to attend Congressional town hall meetings and listening sessions. We asked everyone to voice their opinions and communicate their opposition to the President's proposed hostile takeover of the American health care system. Apparently, the very act of showing up and having an opinion is, in effect, to act like a "thug." Opposing President Obama's policy agenda on health care is, in and of itself, unacceptable, and has no place in our democracy. Bottom line: it's "disgusting," according to our friends on the left.

We didn't know this. Evidently, we also didn't know best practices in a respectful, dignified policy debate, but our leftist friends were kind enough to "take FreedomWorks to school", so to speak.

Specifically, "school" included phone call blitzes from MoveOn.org and the AFL-CIO that jammed FreedomWorks phone lines and filled up staff voice mail boxes. Callers' consistently used profanity, vulgarity, ever-popular references to "Nazis" and "brown-shirters," racial slurs targeting an African-American staffer, and even veiled threats of violence and bodily harm.

FreedomWorks apparently does not produce any evidence of racial slurs aimed at one of their staffers, but as for the reference to "Nazi, Brownshirt tactics," if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

[derby378]

1. kick

[loyalkydem]

2. Yo freedomworks, two words

Bull Shit.

I'll believe it when I see you and your pundits calm your freeking supporters down.

[derby378]

3. An army of dicks, led by a man named Dick Armey

Kinda makes you want to laugh through the tears, doesn't it?