October 1, 2010 9:24 PM
One Nation 10/2 rally - Astroturf paid by Unions, NAACP
I don't remember hearing of anyone being offered free bus rides, Tshirts, lunches, Metro-cards for any of the five major conservative rallies held in the last 18 months in DC. I remember meeting people in the crowd who'd flown in from as far away as California, Oregon, Washington State - with children in tow - at their own expense.I also remember demeaning and belittling coverage by the ObamaMedia, which is gearing up to make this weekend's anti-conservative - and thoroughly inauthentic - rally appear to be more than it really is. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! Ignore the issue of orders and bribes which filled buses with union members. Let's pretend that this is something grassroots and real.
Astroturf? Thousands Given Free Bus Rides by Unions & NAACP to One Nation Rally
by Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea KingIn response to the success of the Tea Party rallies in April 2009, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused the nascent movement of being "astroturf"-a political term of art for a faux movement funded by traditional powers to give a cause the appearance of independent grassroots support.
Pelosi repeated the "astroturf" slur in August 2009 as Tea Party activists showed up in large numbers at healthcare townhall meetings.
Five national tea party-related rallies have been held in our nation's capitol in the past year and half. If there was evidence that thousands of tea party activists were getting free bus rides to these rallies, surely the media would have made certain the whole world knew about it.
On October 2nd, the NAACP and national labor unions will give tens of thousands of people free bus rides, free lunches, free T-shirts and free Metro farecards as inducements to attend the One Nation Working Together rally being organized by a coalition of radical leftist organizations at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has promised to give free bus rides from major metropolitan areas within twelve hours of D.C. The United Steelworkers are also busing in demonstrators from across the Northeast. Even the Screen Actors Guild is 'getting on the bus.'
Local NAACP chapters on the East coast are also offering free buses, as are the Communication Workers of America.
Rally co-sponsor the AFL-CIO states, "Unions are sponsoring some 1,400 buses from around the country to come to the march."
At an average of an estimated 50 passengers per bus, that comes to about 70,000 attendees getting free rides to the rally.
Read more at BigGovernment
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