Big Fitz
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- Nov 23, 2009
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The issue is that a sitting Congressman is sending agents provocateurs to create a fiction about the tea parties. This is unethical and tries to create the slanderous illusion that a group is racist or a bunch of nazis when they aren't. This is despicable behavior and really, I wish there was some sort of criminal charge that could be filed against those involved.The article seems to be a work in progress, but this is what I have gathered as of 8:01 am EST: one protestor is affiliated with Organizing For America (an Obama group) and one is a former member of Pelosi's staff.
And I ask again, so what?
Look, if Halvorson had gotten a dozen mall rats to carry her signs for $5 an hour, mebbe I'd agree this is a dirty trick. But I don't have any heartburn with the notion that Obama's organization lent her paid staff, or that her own paid campaign workers were there. Where else should they be?
Anyway, I thought the outrage was over the use of Nazi references....I'm still waiting to hear why that's a big hairy deal.
And yes, I'd be saying this about a conservative as well. Flip the office to say James Inhofe having people going into a liberal rally doing this. Would you be so complacent about it?