In a rote column about “liberals stifling dissent,” The Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone argues that “the two most violent incidents at this summer’s town hall meetings came when a union thug beat up a 65-year-old black conservative in Missouri and when a liberal protester bit off part of a More…
During Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s speech/town hall meeting Tuesday at Howard University in Washington, a 23-year old college grad/activist named Amanda Duzak got up to ask Steele an angry question about health care, along the lines of the questions Democrats have been asked at town halls in August. More…
Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kans.), fresh off the “Great White Hope” controversy of last week, can be seen in this video talking down a woman named Elizabeth Smith who, according to The Associated Press, couldn’t afford insurance for her son. At 1:47, Jenkins takes her question and, sort of jarringly, More…
An interesting scene from a health care town hall held by Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa), a Democrat who easily won a House seat in 2006 in a district carried by John Kerry (53-46) and Barack Obama (58-41).
I have taken on my own party
Constituents of Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), a Democrat who won a Republican-leaning district in 2008, wrote in to the Democrat & Chronicle newspaper to dish on the ugly details of a recent town hall.
Massa, trying to explain the legislation and his views, was roundly booed, even when he
The Minnesota Independent reports on a health care town hall held yesterday by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who has urged her supporters to fast and pray in order to defeat health care reform. The crowd in Lake Elmo, Minn., was mostly friendly — meaning vigorously opposed to President More…
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Kim Langley of Herndon, shows off the Obama=Joker poster he printed for health care town hall held on Tuesday by Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and former DNC Chairman Howard Dean in Reston, Va. “It’s gone viral!” he pointed out to More…
Via HotAir, which pitches it as a “marine go[ing] nuclear on Democrat over Obamacare,” here’s a video making the rounds on the right: David Hedrick, a “member of the silent majority,” accusing the Democrats of being Nazis at a town hall held by Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.).
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“They want to kill you; they want to kill me; they want to kill our families,” said the chief steward for the union representing workers at Standish Maximum Correctional Facility in Standish, Mich., referring to Guantanamo Bay detainees. The steward, Tom Kerrins, spoke at a “town hall” meeting
Update: Yes, the woman was a LaRouche cultist. The full video is here, and I’ve added her full comments. I’m getting a lot of links to this video today, in which Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) verbally eviscerates a woman waving an Obama=Hitler sign and asking him why he More…
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