 billpar says: The memo also includes these phrases, which are left out of the reporting and demagoguery: "Do not bring the signs into the hall if you want any chance to be picked for a question." "Don't carry on and make a scene, just short, intermittent shout-outs," which may sound familiar because the shout-out part was quoted without context by Think Progress. It also offers such guerrilla tactics as, "When the formal Q&A begins, get your hands up and keep them up— be persistent throughout the entire session. Keep body language neutral and look positive to improve chances of being selected." It instructs participants to be ready with follow-up questions and insist that representatives answer questions instead of launching into talking points. The memo outlined strategies MacGuffie had used during a town hall meeting with his Rep. Jim Himes in May of this year. While organizing that event and writing the memo, he emphasized that critics should not get out of hand, he said. From the Oval Office, Obama Orders Up His Own Union Mob RUSH: "A day after the White House dismissed protesters at town-hall events as people sent from opposition groups in Washington, the administration's political wing began mobilizing millions of its own supporters. "'We've got to get out there,' President Obama said in an e-mail message sent Wednesday to the more than 13 million supporters of his campaign group, Organizing for America. It's Obama that is Astroturfing! It is Obama who is manufacturing right from the White House, sending out his brownshirts to head up opposition to genuine American citizens In a memo sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined the bluepri... |
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