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August 5, 2009

(Video) DNC Releases "Mob" Ad Attacking American Taxpayers Who Oppose Record Spending & Debt (Updated)

If this doesn't make your blood boil, nothing will. The Democratic National Committee is attacking American taxpayers concerned about the record deficit and spending under the "Pelosi-Reid-Obama regime," calling them an "angry mob" while again doing their usual "Blame Bush" routine:

As Gateway Pundit points out, Obama will more than quadruple the US budget deficit his first year in office. So sorry, DNC - this deficit is all yours. Besides, isn't the DNC's "angry mob" accusation the equivalent of the pot calling the kettle black (no pun intended).

And while we're on the topic of "the pot calling the kettle black," I'm reminded of Guy Benson's piece today that addresses this very topic:

As the DNC and the White House desperately attempt to marginalize and bully the majority of Americans who oppose the government takeover of healthcare, they're increasingly relying on their media allies to paint the widespread, genuine opposition as "manufactured" outrage voiced by "mobs" of "angry radicals."

It doesn't take a Ph.D. in psychology to conclude this knee-jerk demonization may represent an acute case of projection. Today's Democratic party is led by a man who spent much of his adult life specializing in the art of public agitation. Acting as a top organizer for radical groups like ACORN, Barack Obama devoted years to prodding underprivileged Chicagoans to channel their political anger by orchestrating activist mob scenes--designed to coerce businesses and elected officials.

In March 2007, the left-leaning New Republic printed a lengthy profile of Obama, entitled "The Agitator." The entire piece is worth reading, but several excerpts stand out:
...After Obama arrived [in Chicago], he sat down for a cup of coffee in Hyde Park with a fellow organizer named Mike Kruglik. Obama's work focused on helping poor blacks on Chicago's South Side fight the city for things like job banks and asbestos removal. His teachers were schooled in a style of organizing devised by Saul Alinsky, the radical University of Chicago-trained social scientist. At the heart of the Alinsky method is the concept of "agitation"-- making someone angry enough about the rotten state of his life that he agrees to take action to change it; or, as Alinsky himself described the job, to "rub raw the sores of discontent."

...[Organizer] Kruglik remembers this episode as an example of why, in ten years of training organizers, Obama was the best student he ever had. He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation...he could be aggressive and confrontational.

...Obama had already been applying Alinsky's core concepts--rigorous analysis of an opponent's strengths, a hardheaded understanding of self-interest as a fundamental organizing principle, a knack for agitating people to act, and a streetwise sense of when a raw show of power is necessary...
Last year, Stanley Kurtz (famed "right-wing hatchet man/smear merchant") authored a revealing column on Obama's extensive ties to Madeline Talbott, ringleader of some of the most effective/destructive left-wing mob campaigns ever waged:

Continue reading "Obama: Master of 'Manufactured Outrage,'" here.

It seems that the far-left side of the Democratic Party (now completely under the control of the far-left and well funded) has no shame in their propensity to bend the truth and facts, and attack Americans for speaking out against their government's massive spending, debt, and nationalization of their healthcare.

Related "must read": A Study in Contrast

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Posted by Richard at August 5, 2009 7:53 AM

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