Dissent Must Be Stifled
By Mitch Berg
Over the past week, congresspeople have been running into grass-roots anger over Obamacare.
And yesterday, it spread to Cash For Clunkers:
Rep. Russ Carnahan was clobbered by tea party protesters at his Cash for Clunkers rally today in St. Louis.
The protesters who disagreed with Carnahan were forced outside of the dealership.
KSDK has video from his event today at McMahon Ford in St. Louis City.
Make sure the White House hears about it. Wonder how many of these protesters are on Janet Napolitano’s list?
August 5th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Hi Mitch:
I get what you’re saying about people being able to disagree, but in this case, I think I have to side with the business owner.
“The protesters who disagreed with Carnahan were forced outside of the dealership.”
Doesn’t the business owner have a right to do this? Why would the dealership owner want a bunch of people yelling and such in his business? If a group of people were yelling and blocking the entrance to his business on any other day, wouldn’t he have been able to get them removed from the property?
Seems like usually you’re for the rights of the businesspeople – this dealership is a business, advertising, getting people in to buy it’s cars. Wouldn’t they have the right to not let some environmental group yell and protest and block customers? Isn’t it the same difference?
Again – totally get the “dissent” thing, but I just don’t think this is a good example of it.
August 5th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Keep your government hands off my rebates! Next thing the government will try to take over Medicare!
Shut it down! Shut it down! TEA-BAG!!!
/jc
August 5th, 2009 at 8:55 am
No, they’ve not been ‘running into grassroots anger’, they’ve been running into staged intimidation shout down sessions where the people are being directed and organized to ‘appear’ at the meetings with Congressmen and women. Similar to the bully-boy tactics used during the Florida election, where the Bush administration bused in people to protest, to interrupt, and to intimidate, the same thing is going on here.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32292235#32292235
As for being on lists, the only lists they may be on are lists like, oh, John Ensign’s list of people to pay off or provide jobs to in order to keep his affair quiet which he demanded the RSCC pay (and be complicit in paying) hush money to cover up his affair.
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/husband-john-ensigns-mistress-speaks-ou
Maybe we could keep lists of the number of phoney moralist Republicans who phumper about reform while taking money from the insurance lobby AND sleeping with whatever piece of tail they can get to buy their line of crap.
It’s a good thing some of you don’t wear skirts.
August 5th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Pen,
Ah. Well, if Rachel Maddow says so.
Of course, you (pl) say this about every conservative demonstration, even the ones where it’s palpable balderdash (the tea parties), so the claim really doesn’t hold much water…
…even if it were germane. The left’s “grass roots”, ACORN and MoveOn.org and Media Matters – really are the top-down command-roots that you are accusing the right of having (but can’t show evidence of, much less prove). They have every right to act in that capacity, just as we would.
But, y’know, feel free to show any evidence that there is any such sinister behind-the-scenes coordinator.
(Hint: You can’t. Like the mythical “scaifenet”, it exists as a proof of Berg’s Seventh Law. No more.
August 5th, 2009 at 9:38 am
BTW Mitch,
I sure am glad Janet Napalitano was wrong about domestic terrorism and right wing extremism.
Yep, sure.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/04/police-several-pa-officer_n_183130.html
am.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_viol.htm
glad.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/31/tiller/
Sure am glad there aren’t any media sites fomenting this kind of hatred or anything like that.. yep.
August 5th, 2009 at 9:56 am
St Paul paper today has a story about Peterson (D-Crystal Sugar) and Waltz (D-Pelosi) being harrassed at Farmfest. Apparently the red county farmers don’t like socialized medicine or so-called “cap & trade. My favorite quote…Peterson said he voted for the cap and trade bill because it wouldn’t become law right away.
“Peterson, the chairman, said Tuesday that he voted for the bill only because he knew it wouldn’t become law immediately.”
Mitch, can you explain that quote to me? I don’t understand what Peterson means. I must be a stupid Republican.
http://www.twincities.com/ci_12994200?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com
August 5th, 2009 at 10:57 am
And those wingnutz are so ill-behaved:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/this-is-what-mob-rule-looks-like/
Oh, wait…
Never mind.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Amy,
I suspect Mitch doesn’t have a beef with the business-owner as much as with the politicians.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:24 am
So what does John Ensign’s mistress have to do with Cash for Clunkers, anyway? Did she drive a 1991 Chevy Blazer to their trysts?
August 5th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I sure am glad Janet Napalitano was wrong about domestic terrorism and right wing extremism.
Yep, sure.
So you’re saying the shooter in Pittsburgh was a terrorist?
He was an unstable guy who went crazy after being dumped!
If you call that “terrorism”, then you truly belong in the DFL. Put another way – if everything is terrorism, then nothing is.
glad.
Sure am glad there aren’t any media sites fomenting this kind of hatred or anything like that.. yep.
Where’s the “Media hate”, Pen? O’Reilly is reporting on the abortionist’s past. You might disagree with it, but dissent is not hate.
I can’t open the second link you sent – but if it’s on the same par as the other two, you completely failed to make a point.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Mitch, link 2 is a pro-abortion site that targets religion. It has a graph that equates phone threats and murder to picketing outside an abortion mill.
No bias there.
Nope.
No.
Siree.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Watchinig teh peevee duck his head into the feverswamp and pull moonbat talking points out of the mud with his teeth is funny!
Hee hee!
Do it some more, teh peevee!
August 5th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
The people of St. Louis have really been kicking Carnahan’s ass lately.
AssClown needs to send him the message that it’s *supposed* to taste like a shit taco…right AC?
August 5th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Peev? Failing to make a point? THAT’S certainly never happened before.
Where “never” is defined as “always.”
August 5th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Peev thinks O’Reilly is a conservative.
August 5th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
amy, no problem at all with a business owner removing disruptive people. Now am I to assume you wouldn’t have any problem with a business owner removing Operation Push members who are disruptive?
August 5th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Peev would say more, but he feels oppressed when he comes here… although it is his duty (his DUTY, not doody) to challenge Mitch and other hate-filled, right-wing extremists.
August 5th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Penigma, are you saying dissent of Obama and his statements is unpatriotic?
“…dissent is foolish,…”
Hey, Mitch, Peevee has no problem editing comment he doesn’t agree with on his Penisblog.
He couldn’t see the hypocrisy in his action. 😆 😆 😆
He loves to stifle any dissent. His loooong drawn out comments usually put people to sleep before they get a chance to disagree. 🙂
I oppose Obama’s plan to spend billions of taxpayer money to destroy affordable cars. What next, billions more to destroy pigs? billions more to euthanize the elderly? billions more to burn food?
August 5th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Oops, Pen – it looks like Maddow was wrong
Nothing new, of course; she’s perhaps the stupidest excuse for a talk host on cable.
But I thought you’d like to know.