2009-08-11 Why Aren't Progressives Disrupting ObamaCare Town Halls
- when: 2009/08/11 (2009/08/11)
- author: Dave Lindorff
- source: counterpunch
- topics: US/healthcare/reform/2009 US/healthcare/reform/2009/disinfo Obamacare
- URL: http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff08112009.html
- title: Why Aren't Progressives Disrupting ObamaCare Town Halls?
- summary: «These "town meetings" are really nothing but propaganda sessions run by members of Congress who are trying to burnish their fraudulent credentials as public servants, and trying to perpetrate a huge fraud of a health care bill that purports to be a progressive "reform" of the US health care system, but that actually further entrenches the control of that system by the insurance industry, and to a lesser extent, the hospital and drug industry.»
Excerpt
Many progressives are getting all bent out of shape over the "brown shirt" rabble organized by health industry PR firms to disrupt the so-called "town meetings" being organized all over the country by Democratic members of Congress.
What they are conveniently forgetting is that these are not really "town meetings" at all, at least in the sense of the town meetings I grew up with, and started out covering as a young journalist in Connecticut--that is, meetings called and run democratically, with leaders elected from the floor, open to all residents of a community.
These "town meetings" are really nothing but propaganda sessions run by members of Congress who are trying to burnish their fraudulent credentials as public servants, and trying to perpetrate a huge fraud of a health care bill that purports to be a progressive "reform" of the US health care system, but that actually further entrenches the control of that system by the insurance industry, and to a lesser extent, the hospital and drug industry.
Whoa. Everything I've heard indicates that if people aren't being allowed to speak, it's because of right-wing "teabagger" hecklers preventing dialogue from taking place. Lindorff claims/admits that the health insurance industry is behind the "rabble" – so if the health care bill is actually an instrument of that industry, why would that industry be paying to disrupt efforts to further its acceptance? -W.