When the Tea Party emerged, Nancy Pelosi infamously dismissed millions of Americans by deceitfully and maliciously labelling them as “Astroturf.” There is ZERO evidence that that was anything but a vindictive lie from a vindictive woman.
Do you want to see what “Astroturf” looks like? It looks like this, Nancy:
‘Occupy CPAC’ protesters paid $60 for the day [VIDEO]
Published: 12:46 PM 02/10/2012 | Updated: 7:02 PM 02/10/2012[Video available at Daily Caller]
Protesters at Friday’s “Occupy CPAC” event, organized by AFL-CIO and the Occupy DC movement, told The Daily Caller that they were paid “sixty bucks a head” to protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
One protester told TheDC that all the “Occupy” activists were being paid to protest, and that his union, Sheet Metal Workers Local 100, approached him about the money-making opportunity.
“I have nothing nice to say about Local 100. … They just told me ‘you wanna make sixty bucks? So c’mon,’” the protester said.
Other “Occupy CPAC” protesters were unwilling to speak on camera because they were unaware what they were protesting and what the CPAC event was about.
Videography by Sarah Hofmann
This is now COMMON with leftwing movements:
Occupy Wall Street: Are protesters being paid?
Conservatives insist that a Craigslist ad from the liberal Working Families Party proves that the Left is hiring protesters for $350-$650 a week
posted on October 11, 2011, at 11:40 AMProtesters gather on the Brooklyn Bridge: A Craiglist ad posted by the liberal Working Families Party is being touted by conservatives as proof that Wall Street’s Occupiers are being paid by the Left. Photo: Julie Dermansky/CorbisSEE ALL 48 PHOTOS
Best Opinion: Hot Air, Village Voice, MarketWatch
A reader at the conservative blog PowerLine has spotted a Craigslist ad from New York’s progressive Working Families Party, which is apparently looking to hire people for $350 to $650 a week to “fight to hold Wall Street accountable.” (See a screenshot below.) The “immediate hires” must be “outgoing, articulate, dedicated, determined,” and “energetic communicators,” the ad says. But “this is not a policy job! Through direct action you will be shaping NY state politics for the next 20 years.” Outraged conservatives read this as liberals paying people to attend the Occupy Wall Street protests. Is this proof the Left is secretly bankrolling the movement?
This sure looks like Astroturfing to me: The ad doesn’t specify what you’re supposed to do for $350 a week, says Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. But “the headline strongly suggests that the position entails getting paid to protest,” and “‘direct action’ usually means protesting.” The most obvious explanation, then, is that “WFP wants Astroturfers, presumably to join other Astroturfers,” on Wall Street. It would be interesting to know how many of the occupiers are already on WFP’s payroll.
“Political party paying Occupy Wall Street protesters?”This conspiracy theory is just “silly”: This isn’t the first right-wing attempt at “‘exposing’ the secret liberal money behind the Wall Street occupation,” says Harry Siegel at The Village Voice. But it might be the dumbest. The ad’s obviously the kind liberal groups like WFP “have run for years, under some topical banner, to find kids willing to take low-paying, rather lousy canvassing jobs.” If any of these conspiracy-mongers had bothered to call WFP, they’d look much less foolish now.
“Right-wing sites succumb to silly Occupy Wall Street conspiracies”The protesters are pro bono — and anti-Obama: “Occupy Wall Street is confusing to many Americans,” not just right-wing bloggers, says David Weider at MarketWatch. But after talking to participants for a month, I can say with certainty that “not one is getting paid to protest.” Quite the opposite: Many of them “have sacrificed income to march.” And there’s one more way I know they’re not paid Democratic shills: Almost every one “complained about Obama and how he’s pandered to Wall Street interests.”
“5 myths of Occupy Wall Street”
Let me ask you a question: what does “protest” even mean now? You’re outraged at some political development, so you go out to exercise your right to demonstrate in public.
But so what? Protestors are paid these days; it really doesn’t mean anything.
It’s ginned up outrage. Nothing more.
Goodbye democracy. Hello fascism.
And thank you liberals.
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Start Thinking Right 
February 13, 2012 at 2:21 pm
What a difference between protest movements!
February 13, 2012 at 3:45 pm
quinersdiner,
And the way the media demonized the Tea Party movement that did nothing wrong and obeyed every law and then went out of their way to defend and support the OWS movement is all you need to know to understand why America is going to collapse.
Democracy cannot survive when propaganda becomes the news. And that is what has happened.