Last week the nation witnessed a remarkable sight in Raleigh as Americans from all economic backgrounds and political persuasions protested President Obama’s plans for government run health care. The media’s response was largely to ignore us, but with overwhelming evidence of our numbers… they then chose to dismiss us.
This started last week as the left-leaning pundits referred to us as organized by the GOP or some deep-pocketed right wing group. As citizens around the country turned out in greater number to so-called Town Hall Meetings, the message became even more clear… Americans do not want government run health care. Rather than hear us, they are trying to dismiss us again. Just yesterday I saw some liberal Congress woman on Fox proclaim that all of these protests are organized by Americans for Prosperity, who teaches a few people to make their numbers look greater to have a larger impact. She posited that there really wasn’t that much opposition to ObamaCare, it was just groups like Americans for Prosperity manipulating the media and spreading disinformation.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
The GOP is so effective that they tried to get all of the protesters in Raleigh to move away from MoveOn.org, away from Obama’s motorcade, away from cameras and away from the school. They might as well have asked us to go home and protest in silence.
Americans for Prosterity did no better. The Health Care protest they organized was over three miles away from President Obama’s Town Hall meeting. Three miles away and inside a hotel ballroom. When was the last time you heard of a protest occurring inside a rented hotel ballroom?
No, the people who showed up and made a difference were a rag-tag group. Some loosely organized by NC Freedom, Triangle Conservatives Unite, and a host of independently run websites and blogs like this one. Some other protesters had been to a TEA Party and wanted their voice heard. And some just showed up on their own because the President was going to be in their town and they wanted him to see and hear their opposition to his plans.
Make no mistake, the “organizers” the media and left-wing want you to believe are pulling the strings have little control in this fight. They might make noise from time to time, but they are following the charge not leading the way. I don’t know if they have too much money or have been in politics for too long… but the opposition to government health care isn’t from them, it is from all of us. It is the grassroots taking a stand and making a difference. Our heterogeneous group easily outnumbered MoveOn.org and the ObamaCare proponents by 3 or 4 to 1. Imagine if the GOP and Americans for Prosperity had actually showed up too.
I am a Republican but my party isn’t pulling the strings. No right-leaning group is pulling the strings. We the People are pulling the strings now. That is how it should have always been. If we stay vigilant, it is how it always will be.
And the woman above, supposedly organized by Americans for Prosperity… she didn’t hear about the Town Hall from them, she heard it from Senator Specter himself. His office sent her an e-mail asking her to come out. That is exactly what she did.
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Isn’t it ACORN that “teaches a few people to make their numbers look greater to have a larger impact” and spend their time “manipulating the media and spreading disinformation.” Funny how the left is quick to say this is how right-leaning groups function, yet they are blind to groups like ACORN who actually DO use these tactics.
Charles Krauthammer made a point on Fox tonight that it is very hypocritical of the President to complain that people are being organized and bused into the Town Hall Meetings, when his most prominent experience was being a community organizer doing the same thing.