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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Youtube appears to have turned off the view counter. It’s been on 974 for hours, although there’s no way for them to disguise the fact that there are over 700 comments, lol! Who’s the Nazi now, youtube?

califcon on August 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM

Thuggish Mob? These are just mom and pop America. They are us. If the politicans think this is a mob, wit until they try to do this Chicago Way thing with gun control. That will be a mob. This is anything but.

MikeA on August 6, 2009 at 8:37 PM

I know this is so petty, but when I receive my weekly AARP invitation in the mail, I mail the prepaid envelope back to them. The way I look at it – they have to pay to receive it, then pay someone to open it. I know, I know, I am totally pathetic, but hey, we gotta take our little victories where we can find them – even if it is 40 cents at a time!

They have used seniors dues for their leftist political agenda long enough!

libertylady on August 6, 2009 at 9:07 PM

My husband canceled AARP last week!

TN Mom on August 6, 2009 at 9:16 PM

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.

Absolutely love the older population, could sit for hours listening to the stories of their lives. Too bad the AAPR rep did not feel the same and she is the one that looked like a fool.

Coastal Paradise on August 6, 2009 at 9:24 PM

I hope this continues. The average citizen needs to go to the meetings and (if not speak)at least have a presence. I know I have never gone to anything political but the times have changed and so has my America. I hope Hot Air and other internet outlets will continue to post such meetings so that we can be motivated and encouraged to have our say and not be intimidated by Washington’s elite who NO longer represent us.

jatfla on August 6, 2009 at 9:40 PM

Odumbo and his gang have started something with us seasoned citizens, that I don’t think he can win. You see Odumbo we vote in large numbers. How dare you AARP, you take the money of Seniors, and then sell them down the river. The shameful way you do business is coming into the sunlight. I am awaiting my refund, make it fast.

jainphx on August 6, 2009 at 10:13 PM

We need more people like this to speak out!

Irenaeus on August 6, 2009 at 11:47 PM

I wonder how many dues paying members they lose after this?

Theophile on August 7, 2009 at 12:26 AM

I have to phrase this VERY carefully.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.

It is not yet time for a call to arms, but prudence dictates a state of readiness.

Concerned unarmed citizens: Train yourselves, then arm yourselves for defense of your home. A man’s home is his castle.

Concerned armed citizens: Stock ammo & maintain proficiency. Seek to improve your accuracy and speed.

I do not advocate an overthrow of the government – yet.

I do advocate self-protection against thugs and vandals, such as the Tampa rally today.

SicSemperTyrannus on August 7, 2009 at 12:36 AM

“SHRUG” Awesome shirt, dude.

Johnson on August 7, 2009 at 12:58 AM

G-d bless ‘em!

Shy Guy on August 7, 2009 at 6:31 AM

I was just watching Fox News and Megyn Kelly was interviewing an AARP spoesman about this particualr event. She gave him the opportunity to apologize for the moderator’s behaviour but he ccntinued to defend her action and blamed the crowd. Amazing! It appears that AARP is either that tone deaf, or that committed to Obama’s agenda that they won’t even issue an apology for PR purposes. I hope this particular video goes viral.

Red State State of Mind on August 7, 2009 at 9:24 AM

My mom has told me for years that AARP was liberal. She has never joined(80).. I turned 50 last year, kept getting their mailings. I finally contacted them and told them to remove me from their list, that I would never join as long as they are aligned with liberals/Democrats.

reshas1 on August 7, 2009 at 3:06 PM

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