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Behold those scary, scary swastika-bearing astroturfers.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 6th, 2009 at 01:30 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

(Brief summary for those lacking video: Dallas AARP meeting went wrong for organizers when participants refused to sit down, shut up, and applaud Democratic talking points. Organizers then left; meeting continued.)

Complete with their quoting Madison and their insisting that AARP worked for them and not the other way around and their refusal to believe that AARP iasn’t sucking up to the administration on health care rationing. The sheer nerve of them, acting like they were real, live citizens of both the United States of America and the state of Texas.  I mean: they’re all over fifty!

Terrifying, aren’t they?


(Via AoSHQ)

The young people trying to run the Dallas AARP meeting (while almost-successfully managing to hide their baffled contempt at the way that the audience refused to take direction) certainly thought so. Up to the point where they ran away.

Moe Lane

PS: Exit question: when one of John Sweeney’s union thugs messes up and smacks around some guy in a walker without checking for cameras – how do you think that will play in Peoria? Shoot, how do you think that will play in Chicago or Detroit?

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    I’ll be calling them later this afternoon kindly requesting that they stop sending them to me and letting them know exactly why I will not be joining their club. I’d rather pay the extra $5 for a motel room than give them a dime to continue to fund this nonsense.

  • penguin2

    canceled their membership. At some point, that has got to hurt them. The people who set up these meetings, Townhalls etc, think they are coming to lecture the people. They get quite flustered when they find out the folks aren’t going to stand for anymore pablum.

    If the Representatives and Senators don’t learn it now, they will learn it in the next election cycle.

  • janis

    with literature about why you’re against Obamacare. Or just stuff it with junk mail and make them pay for it.

    My folks showed me a letter they got from AARP with all kinds of stuff about how they were supporting health care reform and they needed each person’s 10, 15 or 20 buck donation to fight this fight. My parents needed me to point out the appropriate phrases in the letter that showed they were supporting Obamacare and not true reform. That’s how honest these snakes are.

  • JadedByPolitics

    you are quick my man! GREAT video and I encourage ALL seniors to cancel their membership to the liberal AARP!

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    Someone could start a new organization that refuses to participate in the liberal agenda. I’d sign up today if there were such an alternative…

  • spainishirish

    The union thug will be part of the vast Town Hall Conspiracy! A right-wing plant receiving microwave transmissions from Aetna and the GOP, by God.

  • http://twitter.com/_DPunch Erik_S

    …and counter response by the audience.

    As a person in my 30′s (and in the private sector) I’ve facilitated successful and positive public meetings and workshops in the past that had a majority of seniors in the audience. It ain’t easy but it can be done.

    Rule #1: NEVER ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT EVERYONE CAN AGREE ON

    Rule #2: NEVER STATE “WHAT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON”

    Rule #3: NEVER GET DEFENSIVE AND YOU BETTER SHOW UP WITH SOME TACT AND A GOOD LAYER OF THICK SKIN OR YOU WILL LEAVE THE BUILDING MENTALLY BRUISED AND BLOODY.

    Rule #4: YOU ARE THERE TO LISTEN, TO RECORD, AND TO KEEP THE MEETING MOVING.

    Rule #5: ABOVE ALL, BE RESPECTFUL!

    While I can appreciate the first speaker’s attempt to maintain control (sometimes it’s necessary but needs to be done right), she completely overreacts (a typical reaction from a public employee). Tact and respect would’ve won the day here. I’ve seen a lot of public employees (especially the young ones) who just don’t understand this get eaten alive in front of a crowd. And everybody leaves without gaining a thing.

  • JadedByPolitics

    I think they could pick up millions and how sweet would it be to starve the beast of liberal hell AARP.

  • izoneguy

    The people continued their OWN meeting – with cameras rolling!!
    I love it. That AARP lady just looked like an idiot. She said she was done…. Great – get the hell out. Cancel your AARP membership.
    Ask for your money back.

    Protest the Obama DeathBill in McKinney Texas
    on August 13th at 4:30 PM.

    The Collin County Republican Party Headquarters is located at:
    8416 Stacy Road, Suite 100, McKinney, Texas 75070.

    http://www.collincountygop.com/contact-us/

  • olsmithie

    10-12 years ago. The last I noted was for 30 million back in the late ’90s. I suspect that hasn’t changed.

    Let’s see, take money from friendly congress critters,
    Lobby for causes of friendly congress critters.

    What’s wrong with this picture??

    And Obey thought he invented that last election.
    Arrp was decades ahead of AKERN, although they share some characteristics.

    Regards

  • Caleb

    to go to youtube so you can RATE and favorite it. Get it on the most viewed, commented, and rated lists for the day.

  • Robert A. Hahn

    60 Plus. “60 Plus is often viewed as the conservative alternative to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).”

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister
  • bobojake

    in the town hall meetings. It will be Nancy Pelosi and she isn’t even in disguise.

  • bobojake

    in the town hall meetings. It will be Nancy Pelosi and she isn’t even in disguise.

  • Nick Haynes

    Which obviously means that they are corporate tools.

  • eburke

    sending back junk mail to AARP, the NY Times, Time magazine, whatever…. either empty, or even more fun is to stuff stuff like a Human Events article, a pithy remark or two…campaign literature from conservative Republicans… whatever costs them money to open and process.

    And last night, after ColdWarrior put up a link to Harry Mitchell’s health care website, I went and punched in my old address in Phoenix, completed the survey, called him out on his calling this whole sham “health insurance reform”, explained what a crock the 47 million uninsured number is…and sent it off to him.

    What I wish I could see is the look on the guy’s face who now lives in my old house when he gets the letter from Harry thanking “Bob Wallace” for his views on health care.

    This is gettin’ kinda fun.

    Heh. Heh.

  • eburke

    the dude in the front row who called out the AARP for having Danny “I shook hands with Hugo Chavez” Glover as a spokesperson.

    ::rolling eyes::

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    Most of the members of AARP are already familiar with the liberal bias of the organization. Many seniors ignore this due to fears about the possibility of the government entitlements they’re accustomed to receiving, and the fact that the AARP continually works to defend these entitlements as well as trying to get more. The fact that we’ve never really heard or seen this type of dissension among their ranks means people have up to this point decided to ignore the other parts of their agenda that they don’t like in order to protect what they deem most important.

    What we have here is not a revolt against Obama or Congress, but members of a private organization revolting against the staff and organizers of the AARP. The majority of them are very concerned about the implications of the bill currently before congress, and how it will affect their ability to receive healthcare after it is implemented.

    As a voting block, those 65 and older went only slightly more in favor of McCain in the election of 2008., 54% to 44%). Although one could argue that this single meeting of the AARP is anecdotal and not necessarily representative of the organization’s members as a whole, the fact that they overwhelmingly rejected the position of the host suggests that it is more likely to be representative of the group.

    More and more the healthcare bill appears to be the hill that Obama, Pelosi & Reid will live or die on. It is my belief that the strategy that was successful during his campaign and early days of his Presidency is wearing thin on a significant segment of the population; reaching across every demographic group.

    Even if in the end Obama and Congress are able to pass some version of this healthcare bill, they will have expended so much political capital they’ll be hard pressed to get any more of their agenda accomplished. That will be very good for Americans.

  • skorrent1

    That were “facilitated”. They’ve been broken up into little groups to “facilitate” agreement with points already decided on. I can recognize $3 bills when I see them. So can the folks in that room.

    I’ve heard many stupid things in “facilitated” meetings, but none more stupid than by the man who said that insurance companies could not make a profit without denying care to people. Does he comprehend only the Marxian concept that profit is an excess stolen from the workers?

  • IJB

    If Obama & the Dems actually get “ObamaCare” enacted the way they’ve been going about it, I’m pretty sure the GOP Congress that’s elected in 2010 will be able to strangle it in the crib before it goes anywhere with no ill effects to the GOP.

    As it is, with the way the Dems are going about it, I doubt it’ll even get enacted – they’re doing almost everything wrong they possibly can on this one…

  • http://www.scottbomb.com scottbomb

    -nt-

  • farstar99

    It’ll be an entitlement.
    You can’t ever get rid of an entitlement, a government agency or Helen Thomas.

    Well,, maybe Helen Thomas, if she’s near a flight of stairs.

    I love this AARP meeting.

    “Gentlemen, you can’t talk in here! This is a listening session!’

  • Ausonius

    because you would have to postulate a completely veto-immune Republican Congress after 2010.

    Plus, how many RINO’s might succumb to D.C.itis and suddenly want to keep a compromised version of Marxist Medicine?

    Things may seem to be trending against him and the Dems now, but we have over a year to go, and we must take over a good number of seats.

  • marshmom

    I can see my grandparents being any one of those people in the crowd, and seeing as how they’re in their 80′s and my grandfather was a preacher, I don’t have to tell you they’re far from “radical”.

    The moderator was, for one thing, not very confident. She didn’t look like or sound like she believed what she was saying and judging by the way she jumped all over them when they dared utter any sound, she obviously expected to have some resistance and had already made the decision to leave if things didn’t go her way.

    There was nothing wrong with the way they answered her. She made the disingenuous claim that “we can all agree…” and they collectively disagreed with her. That’s not rude or unruly–that’s typical.

    Anyway, I’m glad that the one guy realized that this wasn’t an issue about “health care” but about individual liberty and freedom and that it didn’t just start with Obama. He was absolutely right on with everything he said and I applaud them for holding their own meeting after being abandoned by AARP. THAT is exactly what America is all about; Americans organizing together for a common purpose–to defend our liberty and freedom.

  • IJB
  • Flint

    I’d add a Rule #6

    Don’t tell the people that you’re their to listen to them – and then stop them from talking.