9/12: Protests Only Legit When Centrally Organized & Astroturfed, David Axelrod-Style

Apart from Fox News and the conservative blogging community, Tea Parties have received little-to-no coverage from the mainstream media. The people participating in these protests have been completely dismissed and described using a word not appropriate for this family-friendly blog. Mobsters was the "nice" descriptor.

Separately, these people who have taken to the streets and public square to protest have been accused of being, of course, racist. Because to oppose Obama is stupid and irrational and above all else, racist. This is the post-partisan change we've been waiting for: Exactly what we all expected from Obama and his fellow leftists. This was not, my friends, the end of American political history. 52-48--especially given the mitigating factors--is not a sea change.

Anyway, the silent majority took to the streets last Saturday and staged another protest largely ignored and since, diminished and disparaged by the MSM. And they wonder why their ever-diminishing audiences & readers includes almost no conservative Americans. And they also wonder why, in poll after poll, no one believes them anymore.

Here's a couple great pictures (via Ace) from the 9/12 protest in DC and some other stuff.

Whaddya know? Conservatives protesting liberals can come up with witty & clever signage too.

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"Get In Their Face"

More Obama "grassroots." Looks like the local Black Panthers chapter took The One's injunction to get in people's faces literally.

From Drudge.


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Programming Note: Liveblogging The VP Debate

Back by popular demand (and because I enjoy it), I'll be live-blogging tonight's Vice Presidential debate between Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Joe Biden. Tune in for snark-free commentary and analysis of the debate as it happens!

The debate kicks off at 7pm. I'll start by giving a little pre-debate analysis of the TV coverage at 630pm MDT and carry on with typical analysis of the debate itself at 7pm. Be sure to send your emails with observations and commentary to the email listed below and I'll do my best to plug them into the live-blog.

Thanks, and in the tradition of David Axelrod's famous grassroots (read: astroturfing), tell 10 of your friends.


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Obama's Field-turf Campaign: Even Better Than The Real Thing!

The true believers I mean. The Obamabots. These are the guys that, when called upon by the campaign, send form letter emails to websites, radio stations, newspapers, etc., trying to shut up and shut down dissenting voices. Hot Air documented it when they tried to do it to Stanley Kurtz and my NB colleague Warner Todd Huston wrote about it when they did the same thing, a couple of weeks later.

What's funny is that few, if any, of the callers, email form fillers, etc, get the irony of the fact that they are stifling dissent and yet, when pressed to go beyond the talking points, have no idea what to say. (It's ironic because they're being told to shut-up people who are "anti-intelligence" and yet they can't intelligently go off the Obama camp issued cheat sheet) They only repeat what the Obama campaign has told them to say. Or write. Or whatever. This is why they're called Obamabots.

This is the type of community organizing Obama has brought to the Presidential campaign. It is a community organized and unified around a set of official, Obama campaign-prepped talking points that seeks to shut up everyone else.

Now, even the supposed "grass roots" videos slamming first McCain and now Palin have been shown, by Ace, to be nothing more than Obama campaign produced commercials--fed to their soldiers at DU, dKos, and Huffington Post as though they were the real thing. Even the Obama campaign's grass roots are manufactured (you see, that's why they call it astroturf).

From Ace:

Obama Connected PR Firm Produces, Uploads Lying Anti-Palin Ad on YouTube, Then Pushes it Virally as "Grassroots" Effort; PR Exec Sockpuppets Praise Video for "Getting the Truth Out;" Company Employee Uploads it to Obama Smear Clearinghouse Daily Kos and Urges Readers to Send it Out to Ten People Each

Look. I despise campaign finance reform as much as the next lover of free speech, but just because I don't like the law, doesn't mean I think it can or should be broken. Everything that's coming out about the Obama camp's involvement in this stuff looks like the breaking of campaign laws. They ought to pay a price--both monetarily and in the court of public opinion. People need to see their farcical field-turf campaign for what it is--a joke.

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