MSNBC Goes Into Astroturf Mode

Organizes Grassroots Effort of Free Clinics as Gesture to 'Shame' Senators

Remember back just a few short months ago - when thousands, if not millions, of Americans were protesting out-of-control government spending and other policies favored by President Barack Obama's administration?

Surprised by the resounding turnout, the usual lefty talking heads on MSNBC, specifically on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" and "The Rachel Maddow Show," explained the protests away as being fake grassroots aka AstroTurf. Full Story »

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by Robert B. Elliott - Oct. 10, 2009

This is pure nonsense worthy of the name of the author, Mr. Poor. His false equivalence is terribly revealing of his extreme bias. Olbermann & Maddow are not lying to citizens & trying to exploit their anger & suffering in order to profit personally or to steer profits to corporations & away from those same citizens. They are not trying to influence voters with false info & slanted rhetoric that ignores facts & statistics; their goal is to influence legislators by making it less easy to pretend that the current state of affairs is just hunky dory. Poor shows gross ignorance or willful stupidity by using the 80% statistic regarding staisfaction, which reflects the good fortune of the privileged who have health care & those who buy the popular wisdom, while neglecting the plight of millions & the escalating costs to all of us of a system that is based on harming the public & making a very few people stinking criminally rich.

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