TYT: Townhall Fights - What Are They So Angry About?

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 06:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q0LZad9pfA   Posted on YouTube: August 08, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 09, 2009 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 3543

 
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Summary: Cenk plays and breaks down a couple of clips from the angry, nutty Townhallers. Cenk believes they're real Americans, but also really misguided and worked-up for for the wrong reasons. You have to wonder, is the guy that a Townhaller?

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[OhioChick]

1. Bookmarked for later.

;)
:kick:

[stubtoe]

2. The Townhaller anger is pent-up outrage that a black man was elected President.

That's why they can only chant slogans and yell, that's why none of their arguments make any sense. Health Care is not the issue, it's just the current topic and their opportunity to vent (their racism) in public.

So the good news is, if this is the current state of the once-mighty Republican Organization machine, they're doomed.

[Seldona]

5. Well said.

Much ado about nothing.

[Kajsa]

10. Exactly!

It is thinly disguised racism and ignorance
in action.

They don't bother to read the bill(s) they are
opposing, i.e. they don't know what they are
talking about=ignorance.

K&R.

[DesertFlower]

17. i agree. nt

[DailyGrind51]

24. And a very smart black man at that, forcing them to actually think.

They don't trust anyone who speaks in complete sentences.

[pleah]

3. K&R

[MedfordTim]

4. K'd & R'd

[Cha]

6. That Pres Obama is Black..tough

shit for the brainwashed insecure losers.

[scarface2004]

7. obama is sort of black

his mom was 'white'. limbaw bekk have really got cretin nation all foaming at the mouth...now we know who you are...thanks assholes!

[AlbertCat]

25. obama is sort of black

I KNOW!

Imagine the hysteria were he ALL black.

It must really piss off White Supremacists that science now shows us we ALL came from South Africa. I mean, what's the statute of limitations of ancestry anyway?

[noiretextatique]

31. he would have been subjected to the same treatment as gates

for the same reason, even though his mother was white.

[Butch350]

8. Just immature people...

i think this stuff is starting to attract copy-cat protesters.

[sasquatch]

9. And Dick Durbin want's to give in to these people

:eyes:

[ihavenobias]

11. I'm calling his office tomorrow. n/t

[DutchLiberal]

12. Where were all these people when Bush took their habeus corpus away?

[ihavenobias]

14. Watching Nascar?

;)

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[AlbertCat]

26. habeas corpus was SOCIALIST!

You asked where these people were when someone used a Latin term.

They just parrot crap they've been told to yell. They didn't even know they had a "habeas corpus" or what Socialism means.

[DutchLiberal]

27. Socialism = the government messing around with Medicare

Or so I've understood from one of the protesters.

[20score]

13. K&R

[Alcibiades]

15. Big boy might want to reconsider the "No Nat'l Health Care"

slogan after his first heart attack. Lots of pork fat in his colon, too, I'll wager.

[mwb970]

29. A lot of these Townhollerers are pretty good-sized.

All are white, most are men, mostly fat. They do not look smart to me, but they do look very angry.

The irony of a bunch of older, out-of-shape, overweight guys stressing themselves out trying to defeat health care reform that they themselves are sure to benefit from is just too much.

:eyes:

[Alcibiades]

30. Good point--and a good motto

Or at least the name of an atroturf group: "Portly middle-aged men with anger management issues against health care reform"

[Dinger]

16. Kicked And Rec'd

Wish I could figure out a "trick" to give more recs, but I guess one will have to do.

[TommyPaine]

18. Lucky thing the guy with the ripped shirt wasn’t Captain Kirk

You can’t take down ripped-shirt Kirk!

[JawJaw]

19. Racism?

Racism? -many of 'em.

Sore Losers? - ALL of 'em !

[zbdent]

20. They're losers who can't get over that they lost.

at least, that's what WE were constantly called ... and we had much better reasons to question Bush's legitimacy than they have of Obama's ...

[1handclapn]

21. WEARING SUN GLASSES...INSIDE.. shows he knows what is going on

[florida08]

22. mob rule

this is democracy?

[ScottLand]

23. I just hope the government doesn't try to

take over the armed forces! Imagine how they'd mess that up!

Seriously, it should be obvious that the current forum of public meetings isn't working to encourage intelligent debate; it's just giving people a place to fight. It's like one of those talk shows where they have an extremist at both ends of an issue that yell at each other for an hour. Nothing product comes out of that.

[espiral]

28. ..."a LITTLE scary", Cenk?

They *terrify* me more with every passing day. That element of the US population seems to be going further and further backward with each new political issue. Will they not be satisfied until the place returns to the year 1846? And what is it about the most rudimentary amount of education that provokes such exaggerated fear and hostility among them? What are they afraid of?