Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals meets the Flat Earth Society, as the Greeley Tribune reports:
An oil-lobby funded rally will come to Greeley on Tuesday to sway residents against upcoming climate change legislation.The event, billed by the American Petroleum Institute’s “Energy Citizens” as a rally for jobs and affordable energy, has been called by Greenpeace a coordinated and staged attack on upcoming climate change legislation.
The rally in Greeley, one of 22 planned throughout the country, will start at 12:30 p.m. at Island Grove Regional Park. Other rallies across the country have attracted picketers and protesters.
Earlier this month, the Greenpeace organization in Washington revealed an internal memo by the president of the API, discussing the rally organization and how to use specific information to increase opposition to the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009…
Oh pish-posh on all that talk of “astroturfing” and “internal memos.” The anger expressed tomorrow in Greeley will be “genuine.” In fact, much like the recent health care protests, it all boils down to one issue for “Tea Partiers” and Glenn Beck-proselytized “912er” protesters, as Rush Limbaugh said on the radio a couple of weeks ago:
Now what are the similarities between the Democrat Party of today and the Nazi party in Germany? Well, the Nazis were against big business. They hated big business and, of course, we all know that they were opposed to Jewish capitalism. They were insanely, irrationally against pollution…
Okay, you’re right, the Nazi part isn’t in the American Petroleum Institute’s internal memo–what a relief, Limbaugh’s got the messy (but indispensable for a good turnout) rhetoric handled.
Full story: Mobbing The Debate: Not Just Health Care Anymore!
I’ve got a copy of the book. Should I send it to Rush Limbaugh? It’s obvious to me that would be a waste of time, but have any of these people who throw out “Nazis” in their name-calling ever read this book? It’s about the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party before World War II (and about the war itself). It’s written by a journalist who was there for most of the pre-war time.
Really, to say that Hitler was opposed to big business is crazy. He was successful because he specifically courted big business and they responded with huge donations. There were some members of his inner circle who believed they should have more socialist policies – and they were moved aside.
Maybe a book is too much work? How about watching “Schindler’s List?” I can critique the movie itself but would rather point out that it really gives a good view of how the party operated with business.
All the sane 80% of the electorate can do is resist this message. We’ve seen it in the US before. There was the radio priest who used inflammatory language to support reactionary views. Father Coughlin was anti-Semitic and supportive of Naziism. He faded from sight when his bishop forced him to quit radio after the US entered the war.
It’s obvious Rush Limbaugh can never go to far, so we are stuck with him. I doff my hat to those individuals and groups work so hard to counter him.
That’d be news to I.G. Farben, among others. Rush is in one of his drug-induced fever dreams, or just making things up.
I’m tired of the Nazi analogies, either by the left or the right. It’s got to stop, but it won’t because at present the right wing’s arguments have no substance and are morally bankrupt.
That Limpbaugh doesn’t know, or more likely doesn’t care that he is spouting fiction, is of course, understood.
Krupp Steel
While you’re studying the shark they jumped already, they’re creating new sharks to jump.
I’m helping out Rep. Joel Judd on his free community party on Wednesday the 26th, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm’ish, and you’re invited. He’ll be having a discussion on health care too, how you can join the push for universal coverage. We all have to get out and push to get health care done! There’s going to be food, a magician, and music. The location is Adams Mystery Playhouse, at 24th and Federal. Everyone is welcome to come. Hope to see you there! Thanks.
But I won’t make it.
Have fun, stay safe and make some calls.
It should be my choice whether I want to play that file.
That would be: not-for-profit coops
When Zach Lahn made his “bring it on” plea to the President recently in Grand Junction and asked the question, “..why in the world should private companies have to compete with groups who have no incentive for profit”, one had to ask: ”Where in the hell was this kid when he sat in Senator Brophy’s office as an aide, purporting to be “at one” with the Senator?
The very bedrock institutions of Senator Brophy’s rural district are rural electric coops, rural telephone cooperatives, the local coop that supplies gas and hardware to the locals, the local credit union…and the mother of all ag-lending banks, Farm Credit Services.
Shall we suggest the REA’s disband so Xcel can fill the void? Perhaps Qwest can supplant the Plains Cooperative Telephone Association. Let’s get Exxon mobile to replace the local coop gas station and then close down the local hardware store and see if Home Depot fills the void. If that chain of events isn’t enough, let’s shut down Farm Credit Services and let Goldman Sachs fill the void. And as one last show of defiance let’s shut the doors on the Senator’s hometown, community-owned extended living facility and see members of his family moved from their community.
What does this have to do with Libertad’s comment you might ask? Not for profit cooperatives have served this country well in many forms. They bring opporunity for service to the underserved. The framework for these institutions were borne from the New Deal…and have served rural residents well.
The bigger question will be whether the likes of Libertad and Senator Brophy are big enough people to embrace SEIU’s proposal we build on the success of rural models adopted by communities like those Senator Brophy serves…or will they continue the politics of hate and division as a political tool.
Would someone in Brophy’s office grab Mr. Lahn by the shirt collar and give him a history lesson? Ronald Reagan would be embarassed by this new crop of fanatics.
or turn off the auto-play, for this shit?
“mobbing” ColoradoPols with more non-sense than birther getting teabagged by a deather…
I almost, but not quite, regret that I haven’t seen a single thing that Libertad has posted outside of the text.
so everyone could make their own decision on seeing Liberloon’s juvenile spam or not? It works for poker room sites. Someone wants to be an asshole, as Liberloon tries hard to be all the time, just click the button and poof…bye bye Liberloon insanity.
can agree on this. Under no circumstances should anything ever autoplay on a web site. I feel like it’s 1996 again and this blog is hosted on GeoCities.