Disruptions drown out debate at health care meetings (CNN)

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But disruptive protests are turning town hall meetings into shouting matches and drowning out discussion over what is and isn't in health care plans in the House and Senate.

Videos of the protests have been circulating on the Internet, showing raucous crowds heckling their congressmen, and carrying posters with devil horns drawn on lawmakers' heads, swastikas or Obama with Adolf Hitler's mustache.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, who had a town hall meeting disrupted by angry protesters earlier this month, said he had never experienced such emotion in his 15 years of holding such forums.

Democratic Rep. Brad Miller of North Carolina even had a death threat phoned into his office. A caller said that if Miller supported Obama's plan, it could cost him his life, Miller told CNN.

"Of course we want a full debate. Of course we want people who have dissenting views from the administration and Congress to have a full hearing. But that's not what this is about. That's not the intent of most of these people. It's not the way the press is covering it," Mark Halperin, editor-at-large and senior political analyst for TIME magazine, said on CNN's "Reliable Sources."
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/10/health.care.questions/index.html




Reasonably balanced, for CNN. They include Dean's rebuttal to Palin's shrill nonsense. And they discuss the effort to misinform the public, though without naming any specific guilty parties. :cluckcluckcluck: They include BO's statement, and mention the WH Reality Check link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/?e=10&ref=text

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1. Mr Doggett your are not seeing emotion

you are witnessing well trained students of right wing radio doing what they have been instructed to do. Ya know the lovers of the first amendment.

[JohnWxy]

2. Exactly the same tactics were used by the German Nazis in the 1930's. They are just out to disrupt

the meetings so nobody can learn anything about the reform bills being considered.

These trolls aren't even interested in getting an answer to their questions.

We're seeing a technique that's used by any group trying to undermine a democratic process. The Nazis used this technique but also the Communists used it too, in Russia to thwart he "White" Russians who didn't want a totalitarion state.


recommended.

[bertman]

3. Code Pink gone Republican and viral.