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Athens Runaway8/08/2009 8:25:52 am PDT

re: #622 iceweasel

Well, pretending a completely fabricated, astroturfed and corporate supported ‘movement’ is ‘grassroots’, and encouraging them to scream, tell chant and distrupt townhalls, is also not conducive to democracy or discourse.


Ah, I see. “Brooks Brothers” protestors, as Nancy Pelosi calls them. No way that real people are upset. Nuh-uh. They’re all shills. Real Americans love the idea, it’s the health care companies who hate it!

The fact that this ‘grass roots movement’ was too dumb to know that teabagging was sexual slang, and too silly to run it through google, is just icing on the cake. So to speak.


The “teabagging” meme was started by Rachael Maddow and Anderson Cooper. Not a grassroots movement with scary air quotes around it.