It’s a sad fact the right just doesn’t know how to fight like the left does. We’re simply too nice, and too civil. But now, the fear that we could lose this once great nation to socialism has brought conservatives to attention. The right is now successfully utilizing some of the same tactics the left has employed for years – demonstration and protest.
Barack Obama and his followers are none too happy about this development and, frankly, they are utterly confused as to how to fight back. First, they called the peaceful Tea Party protesters racist and domestic terrorists. Now with fired up conservatives standing up to the men and women of congress in their home districts, they find they must resort to calling the concerned citizens simply asking question of their elected officials, fascist “mobs.”
Democratic Strategist Lanny Davis took his turn at bat yesterday at Politico, accusing conservatives of thuggery, using fascist tactics to cause disruption.
Worse of all, he wants to “have the media name names, publish photographs, and do interviews of those responsible…” This comes on the heels of Linda Douglass, Communications Director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, who just this week asked all citizens to report any “fishy” talk, emails or websites to the White House so they can investigate any “disinformation” about healthcare.
Here are Orwellian words of Lanny Davis from yesterday, August 5:
The “shout downs” organized by the Republican right meet one of the classic definition of “fascist” tactics–defined as using shouting and disruption to deprive the civil and respectful debate of ideas. There is literally no defense to these tactics. I don’t criticize those who feel genuine anger or fear and show up to meetings to express those emotions. But I do call out the tactic of screaming and disrupting a meeting and the fact that this is a systematic tactic by thugs who want to prevent civil discourse, not promote it.
Let’s have the media name names, publish photographs, and do interviews of those responsible for approving, even organizing these techniques. And let’s find an investigative journalist – are there many left – to prove these so-called grassroots shouters are, or are not, being paid.
It took a year or more to prove that the so-called grassroots protesters shouting and pounding on the windows of the vote counters in Dade County – successfully stopping the vote – were really paid Republican congressional staffers, many then on the public payroll, and from the Republican National Committee and the Bush 2000 presidential campaign staff.
Will that story of paid people to disrupt and block discussion organized by the Republican Party or tacitly encouraged while Republican rightwing organizations organize them at least be investigated?
We know we’ve been saying this a lot lately, but is it 1984 yet?
Bonus: If you’d really like a good laugh, go over to MichelleMalkin.com and read
A message from Lanny Davis to The Mob to see how he’s trying to explain that he we all just misinterpreted him.
Source: Politico
