Union "Astroturfing" on Oct 2nd

On October 2nd, the NAACP and national labor unions will give tens of thousands of people free bus rides, free lunches,
free T-shirts and free Metro farecards

as inducements to attend the One Nation Working Together rally being organized by a coalition of radical leftist organizations at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has promised to give free bus rides from major metropolitan areas within twelve hours of D.C. The United Steelworkers are also busing in demonstrators from across the Northeast.

A Lesson on How to Disrupt a Meeting from the LEFT

See a Healthcare for American Now(HCAN) Rep explain how to do it.
He says if a person stands nearby, and says something that is against Obamacare, just stand up and start chanting "Healthcare now".

Grassroot vs. Astroturfers

Notice the difference.

H/T to Redstate

A very honest debate.....(Did Nancy forget saying this?)

Obama Hitler posters and Nazi stuff are Left wing plants???

Over at theblogprof.......

Note the black man holding up the poster. This screenshot was used in reports by the MSM who painted the protesters as Nazis. Here's the thing, though - that black man is a Dingell supporter! Last Friday, Frank Beckmann on his show broadcast on WJR 760 AM interviewed an eyewitness that said not only were union thugs let in through a side door before anyone else was let into the venue, but that he clearly saw from his vantage point that very Obama as Hitler poster in that back hallway after the union thugs took their seats.

Steven Gutowski has this video over at Eyeblast.Tv

Video of ASTROTURFING at Rep. Kathy Castor's (D-Fla.) office

Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.)Held a meeting and set the stage for the union and Obama supporters. Will the OBAMA press report it?
They made sure opponents couldn't get in.
They handed outpropaganda.
They handed out professionally made signs.
Will the OBAMA press report it?

Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.)says you pay for everyone's healthcare through your private healthcare insurance and that you have the most to gain in Obamacare.
Excuse me Congresswoman, but we will still be paying for it with our tax dollars instead of our insurance dollars. If you add 45 million to the insurance rolls, we know damned sure you are not going to add them to the tax rolls. Read the bill, look at the exemptions. Oh right, you haven't read it. It is too long for you.

Some after action video of the racist attack by thugs.

H/T Redstate

Hey Barbara Boxer, Where are those Brooks Brothers suits?

OH, They are at President Obama's Town Hall Meeting with Creigh Deeds.The elitist Limo Libs are over at Democrat events Barbara.
Is that the lefty elitism they taught you over at Brooklyn College, Babs? When you went to Brooklyn College,wasn't it known at The Little Red Schoolhouse?

Racist beats black man at Town Hall meeting

I guess the Democrats were right after all. At a town meeting held by a Democrat congressman, a rowdy group of organized and angry thugs showed up to make a point about ObamaCare, and then beat up a man. Race was involved, too: the victim was black — attacked by a man yelling racial slurs.So writes Patterico

Kenneth Gladney, 38, a conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with "Don't tread on me" printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room at St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was awaiting treatment for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers,....used a racial slur against him before the attack.

"It just seems there's no freedom of speech without being attacked," he said, according to St. Louis Today


The black victim was a conservative, and the assailants may well have been ASTROTURFING union thugs

NOW WHO THE HECK IS ASTROTURFING???

Sorry, Only Union guys are allowed at Town Hall meeting.
Over 1,000 St. Louis Tea Party Taxpayers showed up at the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in South St. Louis tonight.
They were Locked Out!
But the guys in UNION SHIRTS WRE ALLOWED IN.
See the whole post here

ASTROTURFING Vs. GRASSROOTS.

The Real Revo points out...

There are distinct differences between Astroturfers and grassroot people.

Astroturfers coordinate their colors, such as these union members

Astroturfers coordinate their message,they stay as focused as they were told.

And Astroturfers even coordinate their signs.
Easy to do when the union or the government is paying for them

Grassroots people can't coordinate their colors.
They are drawn together by an idea, not an organization

They don't usually have professionally produced signs.

They generally just agree on the general theme.
They don't coordinate their signs.

Go see more over at Real Revo. And some interesting comments too.

Dem Tactic, Call 1st Amendment supporters NAZI's

U.S. Rep. Brian Baird' instead of appearing in person, where "extremists" would have "the chance to shout and make YouTube videos," Baird said Wednesday, he's holding what he calls "telephone town halls" instead.

Baird said he's using the new system because he fears his political opponents may be planning "an ambush" to disrupt his meetings, using methods Baird compared to Nazism.

"What we're seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics," Baird, D-Vancouver, said in a phone interview. "I mean that very seriously."
And I am sure you heard Nancy Pelozi talking about Swastikas

Huff Post even talks about lefty astroturfing..

More Astroturf News

Huffington Post writes.........

The nation's largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town halls during the August recess.

In a memo sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the union conglomerate would step up recess activities on health care reform and other topics pertinent to the labor community. The document makes clear that Obama allies view the town hall forums as ground zero of the health care debate. It also uses the specter of the infamous 2000 recount "Brooks Brothers" protest to rally its members to the administration's side.

Now who was ASTROTURFING AGAIN??

They are calling the people "Washington insiders, insurance companies, and well-financed special interests".

Hey Jeanne, I am not getting paid. How am I Astroturfing?

This is from Barackobama.com. He and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen are calling for reinforcements against the nasty Brooks Brothers Mobs. "Urgent" and "critical" are the words used to motivate their comrades

Friend
I wanted to send you an urgent invitation to an important Town Hall with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on Thursday morning. She’ll be talking to constituents and gathering feedback — this is an ideal opportunity to make sure your support of health insurance reform is seen and heard at exactly the right time to make a huge difference.
Our congressional representatives are back home this month, and they’re facing more and more pressure from special interests on health insurance reform. It’s critical that we get out there and show them where we stand.
I hope you can join us.

Health Care Town Hall with
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen
Grafton Town Hall
E Grafton Rd.
Grafton, NH 03240 Thursday, August 6th
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

"Our representatives are under attack by Washington insiders, insurance companies, and well-financed special interests who don’t go a day without spreading lies and stirring up fear. We need to show that we’re sick and tired of it, and that we’re ready for real change, this year.

Please come to the Town Hall, and make sure that the most powerful voices in this debate are those calling for real reform, not angrily clamoring for the status quo."
H/T to Ed Morrissey