See what others have said

Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.

Trackbacks

1. The Substratum
2. Courtney health insurance reform meeting in Woodstock tonight | Radio Vice Online
3. The Substratum
4. Obama sending counter-demonstrators to town hall meetings : Conservative Nation
5. Democrats: Fellow Citizens, Just Shut Up! « NEOAVATARA
6. Never Happen in America? | Democrat = Socialist
7. Left wing loons – from Tea Baggers to Mobs “attacking our healthcare town halls with manufactured anger – oh and protestors are “too well dressed” and now The SEIU/AFl-CIO to counterattack | Fire Andrea Mitchell!
8. Pelosi says town hall protesters are “Carrying swastikas” « DPGI – the aftermath
9. Union Thugs, ACORN Types Recruited For Town Hall Meetings « The Underground Conservative
10. Obama Calls on Union Thugs for Townhalls | Patriotic Dissent
11. White House stirs the pot - pits neighbor against neighbor | The Lonely Conservative
12. The Union Thugs Enter The ObamaCare Fray : The American Pundit
13. Calling in the union thugs « Nebraska Redneck
14. We have to face the fact that the President is not an honest guy « Jim Blazsik
15. Health Care as Heroin: A Great Analogy « Teh Resistance Blog
16. The Cloakroom » Newscall
17. The Anchoress — A First Things Blog
18. And the Rabble Keeps A’ Comin’: There Isn’t as Many as There Was a While Ago « Rosita the Prole
19. Inept and Vicious. Thy Name is Obama — Behind Blue Lines
20. Thug morning wrap up – unions step up for Obama health care | Radio Vice Online
21. The Angry White Guy » Blog Archive » More from Liberal Hypocrisy
22. Ed Driscoll » State-Run Media Takes Aim At “The Mob”
23. What The Anchoress said… « Do Not Conform Yourselves to the Age
24. Obama’s Communist State : Ft. Hard Knox
25. ~ Representing KRAP (Keep Racism Alive Party), August 2009: Paul Krugman, on Opposition to ObamaCare « Quick Daily Hits — Politics and Such
26. Of Town Halls, Health Care & The Unglued American Left | Stephen Kruiser
27. The Waterglass » Obamedia Provides Cover for Union Thugs
28. More Shocking Audio of the Real Obama from 2001 | The Patriot's Mind
29. Fanning the Flames of National Discord: The National Press and The President with the Democrat Congress UPDATED - Jaded’s blog - RedState
30. Dems to use “professionally staffed rallies” to show support of HCR | Conservative and Republican Apparel at RightWingSwag.com
31. Be John Galt
32. UrbanGrounds | Obama Calls in His Union Thugs to Silence the Opposition

Trackback URL

Comments

1. #101
   On August 6th, 2009 at 4:08 pm, cheapseat said:

   lgm; i didn’t vote for this president. i didn’t vote for my state to be made a union state which has led to the collapse of this state being the 2nd largest auto manufacturing state 20 years ago to having only 2 plants left from 7 then. mcdonnell douglas sold out and largely moved out because of unions, anheuser busch sold out because of unions, 3m sent most of it’s business to indonesia in 2000 because of it’s unions. TS for the unions. they did this themselves and i feel zero sympathy for them. i will also be buying their homes this fall for rental units as all the chrysler uaw thugs lose their houses. socialism/communism always fails, so followers of that lunacy deserve to fail also.

2. #102
   On August 6th, 2009 at 4:09 pm, Uplander said:

   “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
   Barry Goldwater
   

3. #103
   On August 6th, 2009 at 4:15 pm, Misscheryl said:

   from RealClearPolitics (Obama makes me miss Bush):

   A rather surprising finding from the newly released CNN poll. Question three on the national survey of 1,136 adults (which includes an oversample of African-Americans) asks, “Do you consider the first six months of the Obama administration to be a success or a failure?”

   Thirty-seven percent (37%) said they believe the Obama administration is a “failure,” while 51% consider it a “success” and 11% say it’s still “too soon to tell.”

   An identical question was asked of the Bush administration in an August 2001 CNN/Gallup/USA Today survey. At the time, 56% said the Bush administration was a “success” while only 32% considered it a “failure.”

4. #104
   On August 6th, 2009 at 4:19 pm, tonyr951 said:

   Now their labeling it “insurance” reform

5. #105
   On August 6th, 2009 at 4:24 pm, cheapseat said:

   btw lgm; they already turned it over to a guy that hugo chavez says is more socialist than him.

6. #106
   On August 6th, 2009 at 4:30 pm, SHoward said:

   LGM, I do agree with you on the nature of blog posts, in that sometimes they’re wacky.

   However, it was the Black Panthers that already showed at a polling place with clubs.

   Nothing may have actually happened, and there were only three of them, but there are no cases I’m aware of in which the NRA showed up armed at a political event.

   Today’s anonymous blog post could be tomorrow’s headline, and the left has already started down that path, not the right.

7. #107
   On August 6th, 2009 at 4:34 pm, SHoward said:

   As for disrupting public events, who can forget al-pie-da?

   Wasn’t it some idiot leftie that smashed an award once given to Ronald Reagan? Right there on stage as he had just received it?

   You guys that are trying to smooth out the pronounced ruffles of the left need to keep in mind that it is your side that invented modern civil disobedience, not ours. And by modern civil disobedience I mean riotous and violent behavior. Go ahead and ask your friend Mr. Google.

8. #108
   On August 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, spaceycakes said:

   SHoward said:…You guys that are trying to smooth out the pronounced ruffles of the left

   and that’s just the pronounced ruffles on their undies

9. #109
   On August 6th, 2009 at 4:44 pm, Dimsdale said:

   On August 6th, 2009 at 2:21 pm, lgm said:

   Socky (#34):

   quotes:

   show up with some bats

   Gimme a break. This is an anonymous comment on a blog. Stuff like that can be found in the MM comment threads too from time to time, like: “Hey, what a cool would it be to hear the rat-tat-tat of a (some gun) at the Kos convention shutting up those liberal traitors once and for all.” It’s the kind of thing people say in bars, and, unfortunately, in blog comment streams.

   Well, let’s see. The guy that shot up those aerobics women had a whole diary on his own blog. It only takes one, and the history of union thugs is “a teachable moment” in history.

   On August 6th, 2009 at 2:43 pm, lgm said:

   cheapseat said (#55):

   YO UAW UNION WORKERS, HOWS HOPE AND CHANGE DOING FOR YOU. TIME FOR YOU TO SHOW UP AT THE TOWN HALL MEETINGS AND SUPPORT PREZ ALLAH (BLESSINGS BE UPON HIM) AND AS YOUR GOVENMENT WORKER UNION BROTHERS SAY, BRING THE BATS…

   Glen Beck has whipped you into a frenzy. That’s how he puts food on his table (and lots of it from the look of him).

   Tsk, tsk. When you devolve into ad hominem attacks, you reveal your lack relevant facts for your argument. Perhaps the frenzy comes from the radical young president’s actions…

   You need to take a deep breath and figure out that these are your fellow citizens. They are your neighbors. Their kids play with your kids and go to the same schools. You know them. They’re not murderous thugs bent on turning America over to Hugo Chavez.

   You know, the people that go to these meeting, and the regular people that the president wants liberals to “snitch” on, so he can construct a Nixonian enemies list are my fellow citizens as well. When you have to send in groups of subservient union slugs to counter my neighbor’s free speech, then YOU are the thug.

   If you want socialized, government “option” medicine, go to Cuba.

10. #110
    On August 6th, 2009 at 4:48 pm, The Ugly American said:

    I think it would be hilarious if people showed up a these meetings sporting little painted on Hitler mustaches.

    I say we make sport of these clowns.

11. #111
    On August 6th, 2009 at 4:48 pm, rightisright said:

    These provocations by the WH and DNC are exactly why I’ve been saying be armed and beware, while dreading these actions from the left ever since this Marxist was elected president.
    I hate to say it, but these actions will inflame the patriots(the silent majority)of this country and they will not be bullied, pushed, shoved and dominated into a corner without a fight.

    There will be a time shortly where some wacko over zealous libturd is going to cross the line and when he/she/it does the revolution will become violent. there will be no prisoners after this one…this revolution will be fought to save the greatest country in history.
    I am scared for my country, but I have faith the conservative right of America will win in the end and reclaim our country.

    Be careful, be aware, making sure to keep your powder dry.
    Enough is enough.

12. #112
    On August 6th, 2009 at 5:00 pm, theporch said:

    I canceled my aarp membership years ago when they began to go so far to the left and support the dems. I am better than the poor union members who have no choice. I have a choice of who my dues support.

13. #113
    On August 6th, 2009 at 5:01 pm, theporch said:

    Are you all doing as I am. I send the dems lies back to their “snitch” site. Even sent a picture of Sheehan and asked them to be sure that Lanny got it.

14. #114
    On August 6th, 2009 at 5:10 pm, SHoward said:

    On August 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Nah, judging by their shrill dialogs, I’d say their undies are in full-blown knots.

15. #115
    On August 6th, 2009 at 5:12 pm, Ignatius Reilly said:

    rightisright, when that looming day is fully upon us, the people will have to decide how to deal with the worst of the worst, high-value captives after their summary trials. (Such trials would presumably be quickly conducted according to the unalienable rights of man.)

    Now, I have always envisioned lampposts as providing the suitable infrastructure for the punishment phase in these kinds of situations. But, alas, suitable old-fashioned lampposts are no longer that common.

    To take Washington, DC, just as a for instance…do you suppose that the patriots will conduct convicted enemies of the people to Georgetown for dispatch? I haven’t been in Georgetown in decades, but it has such a rep as a quaint place; I bet that there are old-fashioned lampposts everywhere.

    (Personally, I am horrified by the prospect of such extra-judicial activity and would discourage it. But, alas, since I would be helpless to intervene, I would hope to have a good seat, you know, to bear witness and all.)

16. #116
    On August 6th, 2009 at 5:20 pm, lgm said:

    publiuswarmac9999 said (#65):

    Obama’s call to union and welfare thugs is a call to violence.

    Union members and welfare recipients don’t see it that way. They are not the ones disrupting the health care debate.

    jwm said (#66):

    My neighbors are teachers or work in law enforcement.

    Most teachers and law enforcement workers are members of unions that supported Obama and support health care reform. Are your neighbors thugs?

    spaceycakes said (#75):

    That’s how he puts food on his table (and lots of it from the look of him).

    But it does bring up a good point: would you say the same about Michael ‘Burp’ Moore?

    Touche! BTW, one thing I admire about Bush is his physical fitness. — Rush, not so much.

    sonofdy said (#77):

    Just why exactly do you have a problem with americans expressing thier opinions???

    Expressing opinions — fine. Shutting down townhalls & generally thwarting the democratic process — not fine.

    txvet2 said (#80):

    Beck has been urging his listeners to be polite and respectful.

    I spent two hours in the car yesterday & got an earful of Beck and Hannity. They spent the whole time trying to make people hate Obama: “These people (Democrats) hate you. They’re trying to destroy your life. They will succeed unless you stop them by force. Everything they say is a lie. …”

17. #117
    On August 6th, 2009 at 5:26 pm, Uplander said:

    
    

    The Ugly American said:

    Puts me in mind of a scene from the movie ‘Stalag 17′.

18. #118
    On August 6th, 2009 at 5:29 pm, Uplander said:

    I’m having trouble following AARP’s stand in all this, after all, all they really are is an insurance company masquerading as a support group.

19. #119
    On August 6th, 2009 at 5:56 pm, sonofdy said:

    Expressing opinions — fine. Shutting down townhalls & generally thwarting the democratic process — not fine.

    Why do you think we have to resort to yelling? BECAUSE NOBODY IS LISTENING!!!

    These town hall meetings tended to have scripted speeches stright from the DNC website. I am not kidding, I read the website. And then they take only pre-screened questions.

    It was yelling or shooting. Yelling is better than shooting any day of the week.

20. #120
    On August 6th, 2009 at 7:04 pm, right4life said:

    They spent the whole time trying to make people hate Obama: “These people (Democrats) hate you. They’re trying to destroy your life. They will succeed unless you stop them by force. Everything they say is a lie. …”

    the democrats don’t need any help making people hate them.

    and yes democrats do have a sneering contempt for the ‘little people’ like you.

    the ’stop them by force’ is just a flat out lie, you lying piece of trash. can you wacko democRAT stooges EVER tell the truth??

    everything you say is a lie..and everything the democRATs say is a lie.

21. #121
    On August 6th, 2009 at 7:19 pm, JonB said:

    right4life said: everything you say is a lie..and everything the democRATs say is a lie.

    It’s standard democrat MO. If you have no facts to argue with, make some up.

22. #123
    On August 6th, 2009 at 10:38 pm, Dimsdale said:

    On August 6th, 2009 at 5:20 pm, lgm said:

    publiuswarmac9999 said (#65):

    Obama’s call to union and welfare thugs is a call to violence.

    Union members and welfare recipients don’t see it that way. They are not the ones disrupting the health care debate.

    Yet. They’ve been called up to fix that little problem.

    jwm said (#66):

    My neighbors are teachers or work in law enforcement.

    Most teachers and law enforcement workers are members of unions that supported Obama and support health care reform. Are your neighbors thugs?

    That is a specious argument: all union thugs are union members, but not all union members are thugs, particularly when you are forced to join a union in a non right to work state.

    spaceycakes said (#75):

    That’s how he puts food on his table (and lots of it from the look of him).

    But it does bring up a good point: would you say the same about Michael ‘Burp’ Moore?

    Touche! BTW, one thing I admire about Bush is his physical fitness. — Rush, not so much.

    You have to keep up: Rush is apparently in quite good shape now: his weight is down and I believe you have no personal information about his relative fitness.

    sonofdy said (#77):

    Just why exactly do you have a problem with americans expressing thier opinions???

    Expressing opinions — fine. Shutting down townhalls & generally thwarting the democratic process — not fine.

    Then you will reference citations of your dismay of many instances where conservative speakers were either shouted down or completely prevented from speaking at all. This is particularly prevalent at college campuses.

    txvet2 said (#80):

    Beck has been urging his listeners to be polite and respectful.

    I spent two hours in the car yesterday & got an earful of Beck and Hannity. They spent the whole time trying to make people hate Obama: “These people (Democrats) hate you. They’re trying to destroy your life. They will succeed unless you stop them by force. Everything they say is a lie. …”

    Is that a real quote or just your interpretation? Please reference specific YouTube, show transcripts or other recordings to support your premise. You don’t need to hate Obama to hate what he is doing to the country. The way he has discarded the campaign promises he got elected on (with no resume to speak of, that is the only thing one could use to vote for him, if you don’t count the whole “first black president” thing, which is nice if black trumps experience and competence.

23. #133
    On August 8th, 2009 at 11:33 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

    “They spent the whole time trying to make people hate Obama:”

    I regularly although not daily listeng to Rush, Beck and Hannity. I have a hard time listening to Hannity because for some reason his voice just bugs me.

    I have never once heard anything that remotely resembles that characterization of their comments. When people post stuff like this “hate” stuff what it tells me is that they either have an agenda OR don’t really listen to either of these men. Same is true for Malkin, Laura Ingram, Ann Coulter, etc.

24. #135
    On August 12th, 2009 at 2:56 pm, jwm said:

    I have been forced to be a member of the SEIU. Every year I have to write to my local chapter demanding to “opt out” of paying my dues for political purposes. Every year I get a refund from the Union (usually 30% of the total dues paid) I get my money 5-6 months after I demand it. I hate the SEIU!