The first picture at top from Malcolm's piece above. It's a classic shot of the manufactured, pre-print signs that the Democrats are distributing to their plants at the town hall meetings.
The second shot is from, Shelley, an American Power reader, from her Flickr page. Shelley says of the ObamaBots: "Professionally printed signs were passed out to them. I saw very few hand-made signs among the pro-Obama Care people."
It's true. At the Adam Schiff town hall Tuesday all the major leftwing groups were using pre-print signs. Some of the socialist radicals brought their own, but for the most part, it was a sea of "Reform Now" and "Put Single Payer On the Table" and "Standing Together for Health Insurance Reform." Hundreds of people were waving signs like this below on Tuesday night:
Here's Malcolm's comments:
It seems that, despite all the media attention lavished on e-mail appeals to his supporters, not everyone pushing for President Obama's embattled healthcare reform plan these warm August days is an idealistic volunteer in it for the sake of helping move the country forward and gaining medical attention for millions of uninsured Americans.It's true, to a point. If you ask a leftist, they'll say insurance lobbies and Freedom Works frontgroups are "Astroturfing" the town hall rallies. But the reality on the ground is that the Democrats are really mobilizing ObamaPlants and fitting them with pre-print manufactured signs. It's totally fake.
The website's large-type headline announces: "Work to Pass Obama's Healthcare Plan and Get Paid to Do it! $10-15 hr!"
It's a web ad on Craigslist: "You can work for change. Join motivated staff around the country working to make change happen. You can make great friends and money along the way. Earn $400-$600 a week."
So both sides appear to have paid lobbyists in this colossal summertime struggle for public opinion and control of the multi-billions flowing into the nation's burdened healthcare system.
El Marco captured it perfectly in his essay last week, "Nancy and the Astroturfers." Some of the Latino demonstrators didn't even speak English. It wasn't as blatant as in Denver, but the ObamaPlants were out in force on Tueday night in Alhambra. See my photo-essay, "Astroturf at Adam Schiff Town Hall: ACORN, AARP, Organizing for America, SEIU, and Stalinist Apparatchiks for ObamaCare!"
I hope that all of these advocacy groups, that pay $15/hour to lobby for health care, are also paying for health insurance for these "workers" After all they want to mandate that for all businesses
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LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL ...
... when you see it, you know it's astroturf!