The Tale of the Mobs is Built on a Lie

You know all those stories you’ve heard about how the Republicans and the Evil Insurance Companies are ginning up angry mobs to intimidate the good-hearted innocent Democratic lambs of Congress as they hold their town hall meetings? Every last one of them was built on a fabrication.

Or, if you like, a big, fat lie.

Think Progress, one of the Democratic Soros-blogs, carried a story earlier in the week in which it breathlessly revealed a secret memo described yesterday by the DNC as the “playbook of high-level Republican political operatives”. Except the guy who wrote the memo isn’t a high-level anything. He’s just a citizen, like you or me, who decided to get a little bit active in his local community.

Mary Katharine Ham wrote the definitive debunking of the dishonest Think Progress story. She details how they altered the memo to make is seem more like a set of orders, how they used the most gossamer connections to make the author seem like he was Karl Rove’s weekend BBQ buddy, and how the DNC and Democratic-allied media figured latched onto Think Progress’ lie to make the story even bigger news.

If I clipped an excerpt from her post, it wouldn’t give you a fair sample of how complete her demolition of the left’s deceptions really is. Instead, I’ll give you Allah’s perfect summation:

So it came to be that a guy no one’s heard of, who created a memo that was sent to 10 people, who once wrote a single post for a site that’s not even formally connected to a major conservative group, and who’s not even a Republican became the evil mastermind behind a national Republican conspiracy to “manufacture outrage” at town halls from coast to coast.

Donald Douglas has a few more cases where the left’s mendacity may be at work.

I’ll close with one final thought. If Obamacare really is that good a deal for America, why haven’t the Democrats passed it yet? They have a commanding majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. They don’t need any Republican votes at all. So why all the angst?

I think it’s because Congressional Democrats either don’t believe it’s such a good deal for us or they’re not at all sure it will deliver what they’ve been saying it will. They need Republican votes to give themselves political cover against any potential electoral fallout should the whole thing become an enormous and deadly boondoggle. How good can Obamacare really be if the people who want it to pass the most in Congress aren’t willing to put their jobs on the line to make it happen?

Other Posts of Interest:

• Here Come the Health Care Doomsingers
• He’s Not Moderate. He’s Random. And Now He’s the Democrats’ Problem
• It’s Like the Mafia, Except It’s Chris Dodd and Chuck Schumer, Who Are Wimps

Tags: Democrats, Mary Katharine Ham, Media Bias, National Health Care, Think Progress

Category: Health Care Craziness, Our New Democratic Overlords