At The Liberty Blog:
Barack Obama recently held a “Memorial Rally” after the mass-shooting in Tucson Arizona. Per the usual Obama theatrics, the rally looked and felt more like an Obama campaign stop. Michelle Malkin links to evidence of branded t-shirts and other goodies being handed out to attendees.
As Gateway Pundit points out, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took the drivers seat in this week’s episode of Obama’s Astroturf machine.
When asked about the rally atmosphere, Gibbs had this to say.
I will say that I read the speech several times and thought that there wouldn’t be a lot of applause if any. I think many of us thought that. But I think there was a celebration, again, of the lives of those who had been impacted. Not just at that grocery store but throughout the country. And I think that, if that is part of the healing process, then that’s a good thing.
The problem with this statement is that it appears to be a complete front for what looked like a full scale astroturf campaign.
As you can see in the picture below, the Obama team actually put “applause” prompts on the Jumbotron during the rally.
Isn’t it amazing that the same political crew who accused the organic grassroots tea party movement of being astroturf happens to be the most astroturf political crew in American History?
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Typical Lefty manipulation. The crowd is there to do as instructed, not because they are supportive of the cause or message, necessarily.
Reminds me of the anti-gun rally I attended years back in Daley Center when I was active with Concealed Carry, Inc. There were a couple thousand people there for the very professional rally - huge stage with big speakers, professional sound boards, and a cattle fence set up far to the rear of the stage for us "undesirables", so the media wouldn't get our crowd in their shots, or have to try and filter out our shouts.
There were a few hundred Chicago Public School students there - taken from their classes during a school day - there to pad out the crowd. I went into the crowd and asked a couple of the kids why they were there. "We were told we had to come" was one answer. Another kid didn't know what the rally was about.
Some of us tried to hand out copies of the Constitution to youngsters. When one of the adults - a man with a religious collar - noticed, he went to the kids who had copies and confiscated them.
To their credit, some kids refused to surrender their copies.
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