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When is it thuggery and when is it righteous protest? Just ask Rachel

By LisaB on August 5, 2009 at 10:15 AM in Current Affairs

Rachel Maddow did a self-righteous piece on “GOP Thuggery.” Sounding more like Olbermann everyday, Maddow has got self-righteousness down when it comes to defending the One.

Maddow seems to think the upset crowds are somehow GOP-orchestrated. Now according to many democrats, republicans are neither smart enough nor numerous enough anymore to pull off something like this. So what gives? How could Obama policies not be playing well at home? (Cue Rod Serling.)

When Obama policies aren’t playing well, it’s ALL AN EVIL GOP CONSPIRACY. All the angry people are GOP plants or robots flash-rioting at townhall meetings via twitter. Can’t possibly be otherwise, can it? Oh well, it could be only racists attend townhall meetings, I guess.

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But what about orchestrated attempts to shut down other speakers? Last spring, some UNC students did their best to shut down an invited speaker. Tom Tancredo was invited by another student group to speak on immigration and a “democratic” (irony here) group shouted him down.

Well, I guess it’s all relative, right?

What would Maddow have said to the UNC students shouting down an invited speaker to UNC? They must have planned it – they had a long banner written up beforehand. Who knows? And really, I don’t care what she thinks. She’s hardly a non-partisan herself.

We protest in this country a lot. It’s in our collective DNA and it’s a democratic principle that people have a right to disagree. So, why bother showing all these clips? Well, my point is simply this: don’t buy what MSNBC is selling in how these townhall meetings played out. Don’t buy that these angry people MUST all be evil republicans and don’t buy the idiotic idea that ONLY republicans are willing to shout down speakers and behave against democratic interests.

And I thought all the conspiracy nuts were supposed to be after BO’s birth certificate. But, speaking of coordination, wasn’t Rachel’s big brother, Olbermann, spewing another “special comment” and calling out various lawmakers for not supporting Obamacare? And now Rachel does a looooonnnggg piece on the angry people at the Obamacare townhall meetings. Makes you wonder who Ragin Rachel and Olberbot think have a right to voice their opinion. But that’s just me.

And that’s just MSNBC.