At an August 5th press conference, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) called the protests at this summer’s townhall’s “phony” and held up a swatch of Astroturf to illustrate his point. But as the hundreds of videos from around the country demonstrate, there is nothing fake about opposition to Obamacare. The same can’t be said of Obamacare supporters as this news report from WMUR in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, clearly shows: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esEhNrhKacY[/youtube]
The blogosphere is picking up on the Left’s hypocrisy regarding their claims of astroturfing protesters at health care town halls the past few weeks: So I received an email/comment this morning about a craigslist ad soliciting health care activism for money. “Activism for money,” I thought!! Was this it at last? The missing link Democrats have been searching for? Obamacare opponents turning up at town halls really are a mob? Nope, just one of thousands of advertisements calling for activists to help in “urgent grassroots campaigns” because “we need people …
