Times Ignores Dem Face-Slapping, Union Assault, Blames GOP for Town Hall "Hostility"

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:23:00 +0000

Taking the liberal side of the town hall debate, the Times ignores an alleged assault and racial epithet against a black man from a union activist, ignores a Democratic face-slapper, while insisting it's the right that's being "hostile" and "extreme" and potentially dangerous.

Clay Waters

The Times suddenly isn't so fond of community organizing, now that the right has gotten into the game, attacking Obama's health-care proposals in clamorous town halls held by Democratic congressmen over the August recess.

Do Conservative Town Hall Protests Really "Shut Down Public Discourse"?

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:38:00 +0000

Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "The traditional town hall meeting, a staple of Congressional constituent relations, had been hijacked, overrun by sophisticated social-networking campaigns - those on the right protesting so loudly as to shut down public discourse and those on the left springing into action to shut down the shutdowns."

Clay Waters

Like her colleague Ian Urbina the day before, reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg also rehashed the controversy over Heather Blish, the supposed undercover Republican who challenged a Democratic congressman at a town hall in Wisconsin, in her Sunday Week in Review front-page piece, "Where Have You Gone, Joe the Citizen?"

KarenMiracle

Times Ignores Dem Face-Slapping, Union Assault, Blames GOP for Town Hall "Hostility"

Do Conservative Town Hall Protests Really "Shut Down Public Discourse"?