FAIL… Dems Left Red-Faced; Protesters Fail to Materialize at National MoveOn Rallies
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, February 26, 2011, 9:36 PM
MoveOn.org National Rallies A National Embarrassment -
Supporters Fail to Materialize Despite Best Astroturfed Efforts
MoveOn.org hosted dozens of rallies across the US today in support of public employee unions. The protests were organized by MoveOn.org and about 45 other groups that typically support Democratic candidates and causes. They were hoping that Americans would be just as outraged as they are that public employee union members might have to pay more for their pension and health care in Wisconsin.
They went all out and even astroturfed their rally posters like this one at their Missouri rally.
If you look closely at the bottom of the poster you read that MoveOn sponsored the astroturfed rally.
Despite the best efforts of the state-run media and the far left, protesters failed to materialize today at the dozens of rallies in support of government employee unions. Maybe it’s because government employees make twice as much as the private sector?
Let’s face it. These were no tea party numbers despite their best astroturfing efforts.
In Jefferson City, Missouri about 200 and around 300 counter tea party protesters turned out at competing rallies. The tea party protesters, of course, showed more energy.
In St. Louis only 40-50 protested.
In Utah maybe a couple hundred turned out.
Possibly 300 in Virginia.
Around 500 in Washington DC where a bunch of loosely-connected leftist groups took turns complaining about the usual suspects: corporations, the rich, Speaker Boehner, the Tea Party, and men.
Los Angeles may have had one to two thousand in attendance – including self-avowed socialists.
Over all, it was a complete failure.
But, don’t tell the state-run media.
It doesn’t fit their agenda.
So how horrible was the turnout? There were more people at the Recall Wisconsin Senator Wirch rally today that there were at several of the MoveOn rallies.
Professor Jacobson agrees: 50-State Union Protest Falls Far Short Of Predicted Turnout
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Published May 22, 2012 at 5:04 am - 29 Comments
Rose commented:
They been shown for the SOROS propaganda and anti-American garbage they are.
When they meet family and neighbors, may they find out the value that they place on themselves is not anywhere near the opinion they have earned from their neighbors and communities. Let their True Harvests find them hastily!
Alonzo commented:
Wait: You seriously mean to tell me that Americans didn’t turn out in huge numbers to demand that more of our money go to the pensions and health benefits of obese, raving lunatics who call us “tea baggers,” who fail at everything they do, and who threaten us with violence every other day?
Color me flabbergasted.
tommy mc donnell commented:
tomorrows headlines in american tass “massive demonstrations from coast to coast.”
donh commented:
I take this to mean there was no money available to pay the Rent a Slob crowd. One of the blessings of $3.45 / gallon gas.
GP Loves Obama commented:
Unions must be hurting real bad, having Obama waivers, and raises, and can take up to 162 days-off from work a year without being punished or wage garnished.
An National commented:
“An National”
What?
Rio commented:
Of course the turnout was poor. Those people ALREADY had today off. — they should have set it up for Monday.
KR commented:
#6,
Is that you, Libby73?
Sally commented:
#7/Rio:
-nail on the head-
-Not like the ~2 million tea partiers across the country in Feb., 09 or 9/12/10 in D.C., eh?
dunce commented:
People know that union represented jobs are not really available to the man on the street. Union members familys have an inside tract. For example when someone retires union members know in advance of the job posting and sometimes the employer must go through a bidding process to fill the position which causes a vacancy in another position starting a second seniority based bid. Finally the lowest level job is opened to the outside public and friends and relatives flood the employer with applications. Public information about these openings is controlled. How many times have you seen govt. jobs in the want ads? These are probably the only jobs in america that last your working life. By union designed law they can retire, get a full pension and continue to work at the same job in many states.
KR commented:
Trumka is trying to get more gov. cheese, the rat:
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/02/26/trumka-best-way-to-create-jobs-is-to-raise-taxes/comment-page-1/#comments
x0x_nobama_x0x commented:
Did I hea the idiot on Fox 2 earlier say that the tea party and pro union people were in solidarity? I hope I did not hear that, but I think I did.
Fake John Galt commented:
One thing I don’t see on the sign- a label denoting it was produced by a union print shop.
jetty commented:
November 2012 can’t get here fast enough.
~FR commented:
Rooters is *reporting* a large pro-socialist turnout in Wisconsin.
http://tinyurl.com/4crtkcs
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Well, now they’re going to get desparate.
God keep Obama safe from his own side, because that’s where they’ll look next for answers: for a martyr.
tommy mc donnell commented:
the pusher was wearing a teamster jacket a union known for peaceful protests.
Horizon3 commented:
Of course there is a large turnout in WI, that’s where all the rest of the “Workers” that were supposed to be at the other rally’s are, those were bused in from out of state. Big turnout in WI=Small turnout everywhere else in the surrounding states and wherever else they came in from.
Think they are disappointed in just how small a minority they really are?
And we are allowing these punks to run roughshod on our system and take up so much of our resources?
Miles Pence commented:
America is waking up! Obama and his socialist clan are being exposed for what they really are……a bunch of corrupt anti american thugs.
Donald Douglas commented:
Linked with awesome video: ’100,000 March on Wisconsin Capitol’.
WV.Hillbilly commented:
Less than 200 at the Capitol here in West Virginia.
John Blake commented:
While Soros, Trumka et al. marinate in their socialist cesspools, check out Breitbart’s “Big Government” article on global totalitarians’ so-called Agenda 21.
This country is under concerted, subversive attack on every level, beginning not just with Smudge’s grotesque communo-fascist bankruptcy agenda but with Green Gang AGW catastrophism injected like a plague bacillus into even rudimentary local governance. Either half-way decent, self-respecting citizens see this extraordinary assault for what it is, or every sacred Founders’ principle will be ground to powder by vicious collectivist commissars and gauleiters.
We near a point when good-faith political procedure will not suffice. Against those caring nothing for civilized mores, the remedy is not endless, foolish talk, but direct action.
Taxpayer commented:
Nationwide unemployment at 10%, underemployment closer to 20%, foreclosures galore, businesses going belly up; functioning businesses can’t get loans to expand (aka HIRE) or sitting on their reserves because they don’t know what Obamacare or any of the other crap the DC Red Tape Machine will produce….
And the out-of-work, financially-strapped Americans should support public employees’ golden comp packages because…?
Rock commented:
What? Work on Saturday no way dude.
Darrell commented:
Q: What’s the difference between a raving right-wing loon and a raving left-wing loon?
A: Raving left-wing loons can sometimes spell.
Thucydides commented:
TEA Party movement 2 (WI Budget passed, now this)
Fleebaggers and Unions 0
Keep running up the score!
Ozark Lee commented:
The real problem is staging the event on a Saturday. Even the homeless want time and a half for weekend pay to yell and carry signs.
This would have been much more effective for them on a weekday where the union protesters can get out of going to work and actually producing something for the same pay. The other good thing about weekday protests, from the union perspective, is that the “counter protest” is hard to mount since the counter protesters are actually at work doing something for a living.
…Lee
R Smith commented:
The low turnout can probably be attributed to the counter-Tea protests being held on a Saturday. It’s their day off – there was no job to abandon, no employer to cheat out of a day’s so-called productivity. The MAN paid for them to attend rallies during the week, but the weekend is just too much personal sacrifice.
squeaky commented:
#10 February 26, 2011 at 10:08 pm
dunce commented:
so true. civil service in some cases being the home for the “not what you know but who you know” crowd. jobs posted and interviews conducted for jobs that weren’t really available but already given to the guy with the biggest pull. i worked in the system and there were jobs i couldn’t get anywhere near because i didn’t know the right people and wasn’t interested in knowing them. and while i don’t know all state systems, i know that you would probably have to kill someone to be fired – with the incompetants just moved around rather than firing them. in some cases they were promoted.
tarpon commented:
Heck our local tea party group on a little island of a few thousand residents turned out 250 tea party protesters … and over 4000 at a local small city some 20 miles up the road.
LOL, Astroturf only works for so much then you go phhhtttt! Need to pay the protesters more money!!! They obviously undershot the market rates. MAybe time and ahalf for weekend work, union wages would work.
William Teach commented:
Here in Raleigh we had 150, 200 tops.
Dandapani commented:
Follow the money. No money? Then no one to follow. Simple. These Union Goons are only in it for the money. No principles.
a former democrat commented:
I don’t mind or care that Move-on organizaed this, they have a right to do so.
What I find appauling is the nastiness, the vileness their protests bring.
I have seen this same vileness before when I attended some protests against Bush several years ago.
I have also been to several Tea Party events in the last year, I found these events to be very respectful, loud oh yes, but there sure was not the nastiness and vileness I saw at the lefty events.
Of course the liberal mainstream media will never cover it, I was amazed to see what I actually saw myself and what CNN and MSNBC was reporting. The blatant lies were stunning to see and hear.
Fight_the_Obama_cult commented:
In Florida the kooks had about 250 in Tallahassee. Mostly seemed to be led by teacher union thugs.
On March 8 in Florida, the kooks are going to try and “Awake the State”. Obama’s organization seems to be behind it–their logos have the same sad look/design as his election propaganda.
Winston commented:
Public employee unions have been gang raping this country like the Cairo mob gang raped CBS reporter Lara Logan…
bigred commented:
Dunce, very true. I’ve been on many union freight docks in 38 years of driving truck. If you look at the seniority lists on the bulletin board, the same names repeat, usually about a generation apart. It’s definately who you know. At one place years ago, they told my cousin they’d give him a job with no experience because they knew his dad, but me with some years exp, not so much.
Blue Falcon in Boston commented:
Boston had 600+ Union supporters at the statehouse rally and between 100-200 Tea Party protesters across the street. Not terribly impressive numbers in one of the deepest blue states in the country.
banshee commented:
Until state union employees give me a reason to sympathize with them I see no reason to support them. They made their deal with the devil, and they certainly don’t care about me or my family. I honestly think they don’t know what it’s like out there. They should be grateful that they have good jobs.
kato commented:
Lefty “seminar” callers will often try to pose as conservatives on talk radio. They always give themselves away, even before they get to the rant part of their call. To imitate a conservative, one must understand what conservatism is. These posers invariably act out a caricature of conservatism, and their fakery is obvious.
proof commented:
Move On sent out an email saying that they had 30,000 pledged to attend rallies in 66 cites.
30,000 people out of a population of 308.7 million is .00971%
Move On called that “explosive energy”. Yeah. Right!
jukin commented:
First they came for those that retired after 25 years at full salary, lavish benefits, and COLAs.
Since I did not retire after 25 years at full salary, lavish benefits, and COLAs I said nothing.
Rachel commented:
I guess all those “protestors” (college kids) didn’t show because they don’t need an excuse to cut class on the weekends. They are busy drinking, smoking pot and trying to get laid. These committed socialists-in-training have their priorities, afterall.
Rachel commented:
These teachers protesting are nothing more than state funded extortionists. Do I support or sympathize with them? Not in the least. They are organizing against us and our families…the American taxpayers who are their employers! They want to take money out of our pockets to put in their own. I didn’t see them protesting in the streets over Obama’s 10% unemployment rate among the private sector, did you??? No…because they don’t give a damn. They don’t live in America like the rest of us do…they live in Nanny State and how DARE we complain about all their demands??? They are elistists in their own minds. Meanwhile, most of them do a lousy job, which is evident by our kids’ ever-decreasing test scores, and the ever-increasing drop out rate.
If these self-serving thugs don’t like the generous salary/benefits/pensions WE pay them through their collective extortion of the American taxpayer, then let them get a REAL job and advance on MERIT like the rest of us….or shut up and take what we, their employers, decide they are worth.
Zoltanne commented:
“Workers of the World” ….yeah, count them all on your fingers. ROFL!