The following excerpts are from Maxim Lott’s article at Fox News – the venue that NBC, CBS and ABC sneeringly look down on.
Please read it, consider what it says about a group which, if accurately represented here, is aggressively trying to tear the country apart, and then think about why none of these three networks has – at least to my knowledge – reported about it:
Local chapters of a left-wing group called “Indivisible” helped organize and lead those two protests…the whole operation is part of a one-two punch orchestrated from the top, in which left-wing groups throw their first punch by rounding up activists and training them to be as disruptive as possible during representatives’ town halls.
Then, when lawmakers stop holding those events, the groups throw their second punch by protesting at their homes.
“This is a well-oiled, very much activist plan to disrupt the democratic process,” (Republican house member Jason) Lewis said.
It started with the group Indivisible, which created a popular guide for making members of Congress look bad at town halls. The group says the guide is now used by “over 5,800 local groups” and has at least two groups in every congressional district.
The guide tells activists how to work as a team to hector a representative. It says after one activist asks a question at a town hall, “Other group members around the room should amplify by either booing the MoC [Member of Congress] or applauding you.”
The guide also advises activists to go further and refuse to give up the microphone after their question. It gives them a script to follow: “If [Congressional staffers] object, then say politely but loudly: ‘I’m not finished. The MoC is dodging my question. Why are you trying to stop me from following up?’”
The guide, published in December 2016 with the goal to “stop a petty tyrant named Trump,” spells out ways to make the representative look bad in detail.
“Record everything,” the guide advises. “Unfavorable exchanges caught on video can be devastating for MoCs.”
Lawmakers say town halls used to be places where they could have meaningful interaction with constituents but don’t work when the place is packed with activists trying to cause a scene.
A guide, published by a left wing group 8 months ago – therefore fully available to mainstream media – that details how to disrupt and defeat targeted politicians?
Is that interesting to you? Maybe distressing? Is it newsworthy?
If so, ask yourself whether you have seen a thing about this group in mainstream media…
…and whether you think you would have if they were going after Democrats instead of Republicans.
And then join me in wondering, again, as we have so many times in the past, why these “journalists” are in any way surprised that fewer and fewer people trust them.
