Video: Thuggish mob of elderly Nazis attacks AARP with questions about health care
posted at 3:10 pm on August 6, 2009 by Allahpundit
No swastikas in view but that’s probably due to crafty editing. If you believe the new Quinnipiac poll, The One’s approval rating on health care among people 55 and older now stands at a robust 38/52, which is actually a few points higher than his numbers among those aged 35-54. (Among those 35 and under, he’s at 44/48.) Likely explanation: The GOP ‘turfed the sample.
The head of New Hampshire’s Democratic Party is promising “significant push back on these thugs” who disrupt The One’s health-care message, so once we find out who these subversives are (and who sent them), presumably reprisals are on the way. If you recognize any of them, you know what to do.
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Oh my! I’ve never seen such a terrifying group of disrespectful, blue haired, right-wing, well dressed, extremists in my life. They’re nothing but a bunch of totally vicious thugs, and, uh, and they’re unruly too!
Thank goodness ObamaCare will soon end their annoying complaining. Then we can get back to building our utopian, socialistic dream world. A Unicorn in every pot, and Skittles in every garage.
Barb Dwyer on August 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM
I’m canceling my AARP membership via postal service today. They wouldn’t allow me to cancel over the phone. Sounded like they are getting a lot of calls.
bloviator on August 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM
…and dig the old guy in the Atlas Shrugged T-shirt.
thomasaur on August 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM
The filthy, subversive language from this terrible group of Republican “Einsatzgruppen” makes me sick to my stomach. What a group of thugs!
/sarc
Shock the Monkey on August 6, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Yes, resistance is
futileJust Getting Started!!!Chainsaw56 on August 6, 2009 at 3:43 PM
LOL…I absolutely love it when the AARP hauls off the microphone. Our founding fathers spoke louder than any Bose speaker ever will, and these good folks would make them proud.
Limerick on August 6, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Just listen to this hag. Talking to these folks like they’re a class full of second-graders. Even at 28 I find that infuriating.
fusionaddict on August 6, 2009 at 3:43 PM
The guy who said we are all Americans and we need to love each other was especially scary!
forest on August 6, 2009 at 3:44 PM
We must do better than Bush.
clorensen on August 6, 2009
Not only yes, but hell yes!
Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” was statism lite. He expanded the power of government and spent (9-11 notwithstanding) like crazy. He allowed Ted Kennedy to write the “No Child Left Behind” crap. I voted for him twice because I feared the alternative, but never again will I vote for a progressive Republican. But it’s up to us to support, fund and work for true believers in our constitution and conservative ideals. We can no longer sit on our butts and hope they show up. We can and should cultivate conservative leadership among our own. We may not know how exactly, but if we don’t move toward a goal, we will never reach it.
SKYFOX on August 6, 2009 at 3:45 PM
He did hate his White grandmother.
SouthernGent on August 6, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Like so many, the thunderthigh spokesperson speaks to seniors like they’re either idiots or children. When she finds they are aware enough to tell her to bugger off, she has to pick up her toys and go home. Reminds me a lot of how some treat the elderly in nursing homes (3rd tense), without realizing they do pay their bloody salaries. Make this video go viral, sending it to every person you know over 45. Those 45 today, all have parents that potentially belong to this group.
I’m thinking the spokesperson is on the list for rationed care. Looked terribly unhealthy to me.
24K lady on August 6, 2009 at 3:45 PM
eh…it’s just an ongoing simmer…but, yeah, I am feeling better since the phone call.
Don’t be sad, love! I had to realize my limitations. I am having difficulty with the “social networking” sites. I meant, Hot Air is great…and I have met a lot of good people here…but I am really needing to focus on my young kids and husband more. I get addicted to those things and forget where I am in life, I think. So, for now, I am just posting on HotAir and my tumblr.
Mommypundit on August 6, 2009 at 3:46 PM
The oldies came armed, too. Notice the canes and walkers? Did you really think they needed them to move around? No, it’s just a clever ploy to sneak weapons in.
Wethal on August 6, 2009 at 3:46 PM
…and then she will be denied proper care because she’s already lived a long life. Everyone knows that “end of life” care constitutes a huge amount of medical expenditures. Government bureaucrats gotta save money somewhere. Their jobs depend on it.
sdd on August 6, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I hope Fox News starts airing this tonight and tomorrow. This is disgraceful. The Liberals are overreaching themseleves into oblivion.
kingsjester on August 6, 2009 at 3:47 PM
I laughed when she stole the microphone.
Ferris on August 6, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Yes, my Lord, the Force is strong with the old ones.
Alden Pyle on August 6, 2009 at 3:47 PM
I’m 50 and I will NEVER join AARP, bunch of libtards in charge.
The problem with liberals is that the PREMISE of their statements is wrong. They’re wrong before they even start.
We all agree that health care needs reform??? NO WE DON’T!
Insurance companies make money because they deny health care??? NO THEY DON’T!
Mojave Mark on August 6, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Idea!
How about showing up to these townhall meetings dressed as a nazi and fervently agreeing with Obama care, then end your pro-Obama speech by shouting, “Heil Obama!”.
76United on August 6, 2009 at 3:47 PM
We’re just standing around, slack jawed, while this textbook fascist propaganda machine plays everything by the numbers.
Our ‘push back’ against these usurpers needs to be harsh and relentless.
LimeyGeek on August 6, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Yeah, good idea. Let’s criticize Bush right now.
He might be the last normal, well-meaning, America-loving president we’ll ever have had, but let’s spend some more time bitching about him.
I’ll say it again – I MISS PRESIDENT BUSH.
capitalist piglet on August 6, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Since AARP receives government funding, we can safely call this Cash for Croakers.
ICBM on August 6, 2009 at 3:48 PM
It’ll be nice to see Geitner, Pelosi, and Benedict Arlen pay up.
Laura in Maryland on August 6, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Maybe that is best said to the Republican party on CONSERVATIVE Leadership as:
Lead, follow or get the H*LL out of the way!
Chainsaw56 on August 6, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Limerick on August 6, 2009 at 3:50 PM
I am glad to know that there are others on HA in my age group. I am 51, and likewise refused to join. My parents have cancelled their membership this week.
ICBM on August 6, 2009 at 3:51 PM
…and the odor.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Maybe that’s why some blogger a while back (I forgot his name) noticed that the elderly oppose Obama by a huge margin, and then wished they all died away before 2012.
“Shovel-ready” for the Dems, indeed!
newton on August 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM
AARP cleans up on Medicare Supplement Plans. They’re banking on cleaning up on Obamacare Supplement Plans.
- The Cat
MirCat on August 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Tha Gadsden flag is going back up on my house today
Sugarbuzz on August 6, 2009 at 3:53 PM
AARP officials to old folks worried about their health care.
“You’re dead to me.”
fogw on August 6, 2009 at 3:53 PM
I do the same thing with all junk mail…except I don’t stuff in blank paper, I just put back in the envelope all the crap they sent to me!
ladyingray on August 6, 2009 at 3:53 PM
That’s Ben-Gay and Polident. Or is it Ben-dont-ask-dont-tell?
Laura in Maryland on August 6, 2009 at 3:54 PM
That AARP-Obama spokeswoman was easily recruited over to the dark side with a pork chop.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Why is community organizing good in Chicago when it was done by President Obama or when ACORN or Code Pink or leftist interest get involved, but it’s a “mob” when “well dressed” ordinary citizens want to engage their representatives about big government socialism they will be taxed to support?
reshas1 on August 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM
They were dressed to nicely…
right2bright on August 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM
This reminds me, I STILL haven’t heard back from the American Diabetes Associaion on my question regarding health care “reform”. It has been about 10 days.
Jed_Eckert on August 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM
She opens with a common logical “we all agree” fallacy that is intended to make dissenters feel stupid (Well, everyone else agrees, so, I must be wrong) as well as to start the conversation off on her terms (deciding how to fix a broken system) rather than first showing that the system actually has problems that need to be fixed.
They demonize $80 billion in insurance company profits without discussing the profit margin. Many insurance companies don’t make any profits off of their premiums. They pay out more in benefits than they take in for premiums. Most of them make their profits off of investments – the insurance premiums just serve as ‘seed capital’ for them to make these large investments.
Finally, it’s very interesting that the lady said at the beginning the point of the meeting was to listen to the members, but, she ends the meeting because she doesn’t want to listen to them. True, they could have waited until the designated Q&A time, but, I doubt that it would have ended much differently.
JadeNYU on August 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM
ROFLMAO…we HOPE it’s only Ben Gay
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM
ICBM on August 6, 2009 at 3:51 PM
There are a bunch of us regulars around 50. To see a arrogant little Liberal chick treat a bunch of Senior Americans like this makes my blood boil. As Loxodonta told simplesimon this morning. “It must be difficult being a arrogant snob and a simpleton at the same time.” But somehow Liberals seem to pull it off.
kingsjester on August 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Interesting we never hear about “thugs” or “mobs” from the left when things like this happen REGULARLY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvR59BAQ9t4
RightWinged on August 6, 2009 at 3:56 PM
I.LOVE.IT…
THIS CANNOT HAPPEN ENOUGH FOR ME!!!
LET THE ‘EMPTY SUIT’S’ POLICIES BRING HIM DOWN.
YAY!! YAY!! YAY!!
IT’S ABOUT FREAKIN’ TIME…
Ltlgeneral64 on August 6, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Don’t Tread On Me
The American spirit lives on…………..
God bless America – and all that word represents.
jake-the-goose on August 6, 2009 at 3:58 PM
The AARP-Obama spokeswoman has failed her task. No pork chops for her tonight at the re-education center.Only gruel.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 3:58 PM
It’s what Alinsky had people do to H.W. Bush back in the day. They dressed as KKK and shouted their support for Bush.
It played really well on the nightly news.
Good for the goose. Good for the gander.
JadeNYU on August 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM
I love your idea! But I think I’d get the crap beaten out of me before I even opened my mouth.
Barb Dwyer on August 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM
I started getting AARP stuff last year before I turned 50.. I finally got ahold of them and told them I wouldn’t be joining, specifically because they are left leaning and support all democrat policies. I haven’t heard from them since. My mom, 80, has told me for years that they are lefties.
reshas1 on August 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Rush had a very good point today.
He said the Dems have changed the argument from health care reform to attacking regular citizens. He said there is only one reason to change an argument and that is because they are LOSING!
btw, a caller called Rush the “Mobfather”…he loved it.
ladyingray on August 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM
That’s what I noticed immediately. I wish that the people who attended these things were clever enough to ask the follow-up questions when they bring up how much profits they make.
lorien1973 on August 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM
What an awesome video!! My mom signed me up for AARP when I turned 50, thinking she was doing me a favor. I blew a fuse and contacted AARP and told them to take me off the roster. They’re nothing but a bunch of self-serving lobbyists. I hope this video goes viral and they lose half their membership overnight.
califcon on August 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM
These people can’t be Nazis. They’re too old to goose step!
sdd on August 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM
In the November 2008 election, elderly whites were the demo group that stayed home the most as compared to 2004 election figures. This report came out last month after official data was analyzed.
My heart breaks for these seniors being maligned by the Libs in power, but I can’t help shaking my head and wondering how many of them stayed home in 2008 and how their doing so may have put them in the position they’re in now…not blaming them or putting them…just thinking that a 2012 victory for the GOP is a reality as they’re pissing off this demo group mightily with this healthcare debacle.
And now they’re being categorized as a “mob” by the power-bearers. Don’t think it’s a particularly smart move.
RepubChica on August 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM
I saw a guy with a “Shrug” t-shirt in the video. There’s all the proof you need. (/sarcasm)
Jim-Rose on August 6, 2009 at 4:01 PM
But I thought cops were PIGS! And racists! And… something. I forget.
Oh look, something another Obama puppy photo! awwwwww
Enoxo on August 6, 2009 at 4:01 PM
3 or 4 of them should have thrown that bitch out into the parking lot. What a slime bag.
rplat on August 6, 2009 at 4:02 PM
God I hope not…That could break me.
sdd on August 6, 2009 at 4:02 PM
It’s the ad hominem fallacy. Don’t respond to the substance of the argument. Attack the speaker.
From Obama & the Dems we also have the straw man fallacy, “The GOP wants to do nothing.” And the false dilemma fallacy. “Either we do this health care reform or we leave it at the status quo.”
Wethal on August 6, 2009 at 4:03 PM
This is why I never joined AARP. I have considered joining many times but I hate their Liberal politics and refuse to support it.
.
I recently received another invitation to join and on it they announced that they support the health care bill. That was a nail in the coffin of my signing up.
.
Now this meeting demonstrates graphically how screwed up and Leftist they really are. Some alternative elderly organization without their ugly politics should be started.
FactsofLife on August 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM
AARP has been a left leaning organization from the git go. Now their statist facade is finally becoming evident to even their members. They would rather let their seniors face end of life counseling than let market forces take care of health care. There are many free-market solutions to any problems we have in health care and the government could help inspire these with tax credits, but they want to ruin the economy and compromise the health of its citizens and push us toward socialism. JUST SAY NO to Obamacare and the AARP.
Christian Conservative on August 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM
I’ve been to church council meetings more heated than this was.
Susanboo on August 6, 2009 at 4:05 PM
For all you good folks taking a poke at us with yellow toenails….
1. I speak my mind, practice whatever religion I want, and read whatever press I want.
2. I am armed.
3. I don’t let Uncle Sugar sleep in my house uninvited.
4. I demand to see your warrant. Otherwise you better run like hell.
5. I’ll confess if I frakking feel like it.
6. I demand a jury of my peers, not carpetbaggers.
7. I’ll reserve my right to sue your fanny if I feel like it.
8. I reject you holding me just because you want to hold me.
9. I haven’t given the government any rights over me. Instead I’ve given myself rights over the government.
10. I’m a citizen of Texas, then the United States.
11. Cut my toenails at your own peril.
6.
Limerick on August 6, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Awesome!
+2
ted c on August 6, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Yes, exactly.
ladyingray on August 6, 2009 at 4:08 PM
The AARP is obviously being dragged underwater by the millstone it has voluntarily hung around its neck by endorsing Obamacare.
ted c on August 6, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Ok. That made me laugh. Mostly because I could picture it. Microphone ripped from the wall in one hand…pork chop in the other…what to do, what to do.
Rational Thought on August 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM
I sent this video on to everyone on my address list and posted it on FB along with links to the Senate & the House.
http://www.senate.gov:80/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
@Rightwingguy, I turned 50 this year, only had a membership for 3 months.
My senator Sherrod Brown’s office hung up on me this morning when I requested his recess schedule for Town Hall meetings.
Jason58 on August 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM
This administration is despicable. There’s only one reason they’re pitting citizens against each other like this and it has nothing to do with people’s health, it’s fear…fear of failure. And they will fail. Grownups would gather for debate and compromise and find real solutions to health care issues, like they were elected to do. These toads? Not capable. Well, too bad, folks, because Obama’s numbers are in the tank and the majority of Americans don’t want his health care plan. And if this doesn’t fly (which it won’t) he’s toast. Bye bye Mr.One Term Man!
scalleywag on August 6, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Those stupid old crackers and their fancy Brooks Bros clothes, along with the token race traitor don’t know what’s good for them! /snark (relax and have a laugh)
OxyCon on August 6, 2009 at 4:13 PM
This blonde woman was very condescending towards these people. I am disgusted and shocked that she could use such a tone with people who could be her parents. The level of disdain she has for them is telling. That level of disdain comes from the top down–it starts at the top and she is merely parroting what she has been heard from the top.
ted c on August 6, 2009 at 4:13 PM
God bless Texas.
rplat on August 6, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Seriously? They hung up on you? OMG.
califcon on August 6, 2009 at 4:14 PM
I wish we had voted in this guy, that group would of loved him:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/old_grizzled_third_party
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 4:14 PM
By leading its own members into Screwtopia, AARP may have opened the proverbial can of whup-ass on itself.
whitetop on August 6, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Standing ovation for you
HoustonRight on August 6, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Kratovil’s office wouldn’t give out information. They wanted my email…I wonder why?
Laura in Maryland on August 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Wow…that was pathetic! The lady took her baseball bat and went home so to speak.
A few things come to mind:
1. Demographically most of the people there voted for Hope and Change so this is what they get.
2. Volunteers? Sounds like AARP’s been doing some “community organizing”.
3. This sounds like how many unions operate.
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM
How dare those old people cause AARP to walk out of their own meeting.
Didn’t they know that if they sat down and kept their mouths closed, they would have been home in time for their 4 PM dinners and Matlock?
The very idea!
madmonkphotog on August 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM
So true…thin skinned bureaucrats are what they are.
right2bright on August 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM
I’m sure that the attendees were glad to see her gargantuan a$$ walking out the door.
Key West Reader on August 6, 2009 at 4:18 PM
AARP is basically an insurance company…just in bed with the government.
I think you will find a lot of people dumping them.
right2bright on August 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM
What the old guy said was true for all of us though. While we have been working and trying to better ourselves, we let our government fester, assuming that it would take care of itself and leave us alone.
Now we are just waking up to the fact that it is indeed trying to take care of itself, to the exclusion and detriment of the citizenry
We have been very poor stewards of this great country that our founding fathers left to us. If we manage to get out of this in one piece I hope this experience is an abject lesson for everyone that you cannot be a bystander when it comes to your government. Or you risk becoming a slave
Sugarbuzz on August 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Until now their biggest worry was constipation. Now it is projectile loose stool. moveongrannie.org
seven on August 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM
if that big bottomed biatch ever talked that condescending crap to my parents or grandparents she would find herself on the floor real quick, with a mad headache – and she would be wise to stay down
Ris4victory on August 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Won’t the AARP-Obama spokesperson have to worry about her fat when ObamaCare kicks in and her huge keister lands her in fat re-education camp.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM
I want to see the clip where she actually makes it through the door.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Must have been raised by the same type people I was :)
HoustonRight on August 6, 2009 at 4:22 PM
LOL… my kind of guy!
Romeo13 on August 6, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Big, or small, south of the Red River we have a name for gals like that…
riverhog
Limerick on August 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Ben not gay, Ben straight…
right2bright on August 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM
They got out of the way the day Obama took office.
They played the role of a matador and when the red cape was waved and lifted, there was a charging bull, head down and charging straight towards us.
Goodeye_Closed on August 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Okay. That cracked me up.
RepubChica on August 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM
I just couldn’t help laughing at how huffy she was. That was after I got really mad at her blatant disrespect and patronizing attitude toward her ELDERS as well as constituents in her opening statement.
This totally made my day. You “seasoned citizens” in Dallas ROCKED.
hoosiermama on August 6, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Just found out my Mom didn’t renew her AARP membership, before she saw this video.
Good on ‘ya Ma.
Let’s get after ‘em wherever they speak.
russcote on August 6, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Yeah, I started getting crap from AARP when I turned 50 a couple of months ago… still trying to figure out how they got my information, including AGE.
Romeo13 on August 6, 2009 at 4:26 PM
WillObamaCare pay for this drug?
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/fda_approves_depressant_drug_for
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM
I can’t watch the video at work. Did any of the older gentlemen or ladies tell the AARP rep to “Get off my lawn”?
I really think that is the new Clint catchphrase. Such a great movie, little too much racial slurs, but still a good movie imo.
Torch on August 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM
She was a fat ass lib, no question about it. Large and in charge. I run into these losers all the time.
What makes me so mad is the sense of talking down to those folks. Your grandma and granpa. I wonder how many WW2 vets were in the crowd and listening to the lib fat ass talking to them like a kindergardner. Nothing makes me more fighting mad than this.
Make no mistake about it that woman cares nothing about old people and proably stuck her parents in the old folks homes as fast as she could.
kangjie on August 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM
I will turn the tender young age of 55 while in DC for the protest. Have been throwing out the AARP junk mail in the trash until today. Today, I called and demanded to be taken off of their mailing list. Talked to a lovely young girl who sounded like she was in her late teens or early twenties.
If you can make the protest in DC on 9/12, look here: http://912dc.org
If you can’t make it to DC, I bet you can make it to your local representative’s office on 8/22:
http://recessrally.com
Let’s Roll!
surfhut on August 6, 2009 at 4:28 PM
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