It's not like the Republicans have not effectively used the "fake grassroots" rallies before, and to their great advantage. I remember clearly the media coverage of dozens of "citizens" protesting the way ballots were being counted in Florida, the day after the polls closed for Bush's 2000 election. Angry, shouting, people, appeared to have poured out of their homes and into the streets to cry out that Al Gore's people were stealing the election. (A good rule for thieves is to always say the opposite of the truth). Much later, months later, the truth came out. When you ran those videos in slow and stop motion researchers could identify all those protestors. They weren't from Miami. They were from Washington. They were dozens of offices staffers of one Republican bigwig after another who looked at all their interns and said "Get on the first plane to Florida, raise a ruckus." Videos even showed protestors on different days in the same clothes. The staffers went straight to the airport with no bags. In just hours they were a grassroots movement.

This time we are calling them what they are, an astroturf movement, that is "fake grass." These poor "Tea Party" pawns are being fed their lines from the voices of the Repub party, Shawn and Rush, and they swallow it hook, line, and sinker.

A whole segment of the American population is now so brainwashed that they think FOX NEWS is presenting news instead of propaganda. If you believe what they project as truth, then NPR news must be in the service of the Dark Lord Obama.

There is no grass roots movement against health care. We need non-profit health care in this country for a change. If these guys are grass roots, I say it is time for a prairie fire.