re: #48 Killgore Trout

I saw this one earlier. He seemed to me to be a planted agitator sent in by the organizers to get the crowd fired up.

Nope, he looks like a genuine counter-protester.

Edward Kimmel was almost hidden behind a large “Public Option Now!” sign. When he carried the sign through Saturday’s Tea Party protest at the Capitol, he described the reactions he got as “screaming, spitting and people so mad they couldn’t see straight.” The reaction from the crowd on Thursday — protesters were largely absent — was the opposite, with many people stopping to tell Kimmel they agreed with him or to snap photos next to his sign.

Asked if he would support a bill that didn’t include a public option, Kimmel called such a provision essential “from both a moral and a budgetary standpoint.” But, he added, if the president were to back a bill that did not include a public option, he would support it. “The president wants the same things as us,” said Kimmel. “If, with all he knows, he says this is the best we can do, then — well, first I may cry a little — but I’ll still support him.”