Attention Media: This is what Astroturf looks like

posted at 8:05 pm on April 16, 2009 by
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Workers of the world, bake!

The Service Employees International Union says Mainers will deliver the pies Thursday to all 17 district offices of Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and Reps. Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree.

In its announcement urging support for President Obama’s health care reform proposals and the Employee Free Choice Act, the SEIU said “good jobs and affordable health care are as American as blueberry pie.”

In the BDN’s article about the Bangor tea party, the reporter felt obligated to quote representatives from both the Democrat party and the Maine People’s Alliance (a liberal ‘activist’ group). No one other than the SEIU press release is quoted here. Go figure.

Over 300,000 Americans attend tea parties? They’re right-wing, gun-loving, astroturfing puppets of Fox News. 235 union members/supporters deliver pies to Congressional offices? They’re activists.

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Well, nobody said it was going to be fair. A touch depressing though.

Cindy Munford on April 16, 2009 at 8:13 PM

“American as apple pie”. In what parallel universe are these people living? Psssst. Don’t tell them that it isn’t “blueberry.” It’s funnier that way.

marybel on April 16, 2009 at 9:53 PM

I quit paying attention to the mainstream media a while ago. What can I do to finally get them to go away?

matthew26 on April 17, 2009 at 10:03 AM

It’s a sign we’ve come a long way as a people. We can have more than one American pie!

petunia on April 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM

What will SIEU do when small businesses go bankrupt due to the high cost of Unions? The unions will choke the life out of businesses just as they have at Big Three auto mfg.

If they are so keen on President TelePrompter’s Healthcare, instead of making pies, they could chip in to help pay for healthcare, maybe use the MILLIONS they donate to democrats…..

TN Mom on April 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM