TagsTagsTea Party Republican Rep. Joe Walsh recently received the "True Blue" award from the religious right's Family Research Council for his "pro-family" activities -- but it doesn't seem to have put him in a good mood. Here he is screaming like a lunatic at a town hall meeting, when his constituents ...
Joe Walsh, Family Values, Town Hall, Right Wing, Tea Party, Video
No word on whether private insurance will cover the finger reattachment or the dental check-up. Man’s Finger Bitten Off in Scuffle at Health Care Rally. A witness from the scene says a man was walking through the anti-reform group to get to the pro-reform side when he got into an ...
Health Care, Town Hall, Demonstrations, Protests, Violence, Los Angeles
Code Pink leader Medea Benjamin highly approves of the right wing screamers disrupting health care town hall meetings. This is exactly why I coined the term “moronic convergence.”
Town Hall, Health Care, Extremism, Code Pink, Left Wing, Right Wing, Moronic Convergence
LGF reader Keith G. has been working on an updated version of the list of LGF questions about health care reform originally proposed in this thread. He’s added a section for each question for any answers that become available. This is a great resource; thanks to everyone for submitting your questions. ...
Last week we had a thread titled What Would You Ask About Health Care? The purpose was to get everyone’s input on substantial questions about the proposed health care legislation that need answering, and hopefully make a more rational contribution to the debate than ranting about death panels and euthanasia ...
Patterico has the tale of a woman who showed up at a health care town hall meeting and pretended to be a doctor. Also appearing in this story: Obama campaign worker Maria Isabel, who was featured at LGF on February 11, 2008, when we published a video capture of her office ...
Big politics meets big pharmaceuticals in the shiny new land of Hopenchange: Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma. A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide-ranging deal that ...
Bill Sammon makes an excellent point about the blatant double standard of US media: Analysis: Press Largely Ignored Incendiary Rhetoric at Bush Protest. As we’ve documented for years at LGF, the media did indeed cover up and obfuscate the true extent of the extremism at many left wing demonstrations. Sammon points ...
Media Bias, George W. Bush, Demonstrations, Protests, Cindy Sheehan, International ANSWER, Town Hall
Here’s how the people disrupting town hall meetings look to “David T” at the center left British blog Harry’s Place: Nutterdom on the U.S. Right. Believe me, we’ve been here in the U.K. This is pretty much the sort of lunacy that we saw in the Labour Party during 19 ...
LGF reader Keith G. suggested this as a topic; I mentioned it in the earlier thread about Obama’s town hall meeting today. There were some good responses to my question, but they kind of got lost amid the general comments on the meeting. So here’s another thread, because I really am ...
Barack Obama’s town hall meeting on health care is going to start soon. Here’s a thread to discuss it. If you had the chance to ask Obama a question about his health care plan, what would it be? Apparently the people at this meeting were not pre-screened. With the current atmosphere, ...
Because I criticized the mob behavior at several health care town hall meetings, the denizens of Free Republic have decided: Charles Johnson of LGF supports violence against American citizens. Free Republic, of course, is where hundreds (possibly thousands) of commenters applauded the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic. ...
Health Care, Town Hall, Demonstrations, Protests, Free Republic, Hate Speech
If anyone thinks this is the right way to debate health care, well, you’re dreaming: Health Debate Turns Hostile at Town Hall Meetings. There’s a place for yelling, screaming, and protesting — at demonstrations scheduled for that purpose. When these Tea Partiers and Glenn Beck drones charge into town hall meetings, ...
Tampa Bay Online has a report on the unruly health care town hall meeting in Tampa, Florida that resulted in scuffles and fist fights. (Video may take a few seconds to load.) TBO Video American politics is turning into a bad episode of the Jerry Springer show.