* Oops!!! I guess I could blame IR for this mistake, but I should’ve checked the “Rush” FB page a little more closely. It’s a fan page. Says so right at the top.
Sheesh.
Sorry.
Headline changed and stuff stricken from the record.
Let’s help Rep. Bobby Schilling out. I need 25 of you to chip in $25 or more to help him fight these far-left special interest groups trying to run a strong conservative out of Congress. We need more people like Bobby in Washington who lead by example as they fight for us.
Do what you can! Bobby needs you!
Kinda set the bar low there. Twenty-five people giving $25 each is $625. He can’t do better than that?
In this morning’s Politico Huddle, something the corrupt website describes as “a play-by-play of the day’s congressional news,” this morning’s email blast headlined the following [emphasis added]:
Senate Democrats surging, Kaine leads Allen, Coburn: Dems’ vets bill same old ‘crap,’ Issa won’t stop probing ‘Furious,’ Schilling walks out of town hall, GOP: Reid’s Mitt-bashing broke rules, trivia
…Looks pretty bad, doesn’t it — a sitting Congressman turning tail and running from his own constituents?
Yep, pretty weak.
Oh, except…
Politico’s source published incomplete video. And had Politico been the least bit curious and skeptical of its left-wing source, it would’ve seen that Rep. Schilling did not “walk out” of the town hall meeting.
In fact, what the Republican Congressman did do was actually pretty shrewd. He made it look as though he was going to leave, which got the obnoxious protesters to leave, and then after they left, Schilling coolly and calmly returned to the front of the room and picked up right where he left off.
The picture of poise and composure.
* The video of Schilling coming back into the room, which I’ve already posted…
Al Ramos of East Moline, Illinois was surprised to be on the receiving end of the wrath of the female phone pollster who called his home this week.
“She asked if I was going to vote for Bobby Schilling or Cheri Bustos,” Mr. Ramos recounted. He says he told her he was leaning toward Bustos, but was still a bit on the fence.
Then, he said, she asked if the election were held today, would he vote for Mitt Romney or Barack Obama. Ramos says he told the pollster he isn’t a Romney fan because “he’s for the rich,” but he is not entirely happy with the president, either.
“I told her I’ll go with the lesser of two evils, I would go with Obama, and she said, ‘What, so you want to live in a communist nation? You want to live in a communist state, because that’s what’s going to happen,’” he said.
Ramos said he was shocked that a survey taker would turn on him.
Here’s the deal. Politicians say things that later get them to look like hypocrits. It happens all the time, it isn’t news. BUT it has been happening to Booby a lot. First, he railed against Hare mailing constituents legislative updates and now he is the poset child for that kind of government waste. Second, he railed against Hare for taking money from outside the district and now is is taking Rush’s money. Lastly of course, is his campaign jumping all over the “Hare moment” about the health care law, but now he isn’t willing to even answer the same kind of questioning. I hate that political townhalls have become shouting matches trying to get people wrapped up in a “gitcha moment,” but wasn’t it Bobby’s tea party that really mastered that?
Again- that FB page is not affiliated with the actual Rush Limbaugh at all. Click the link to check for yourself.
- Hold Your Horses - Friday, Sep 21, 12 @ 10:16 am:
Really Rich, can you change the headline on the story. You would pummel, and often have, any media outlet that would put up such a misleading headline.
This is direct from the page you cited.
Disclaimer: Rush Limbaugh does not operate the Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network fanpage. We are simply enthusiasts of his work.
Who do the voters of the 17th District think they are trying to ask Bobby Schilling, the man they pay $187,321 per year, where he stands on key issues? Do these taxpayers really think Schilling has to answer their question? Let alone give them a “yes” or “no” response. The nerve of these navies!!!!
“I heard” stories of volunteer phone pollsters? Doesn’t everyone know of someone who who talked to someone wierd in support of a candidate? It was a slow news day apparently, but Romney’s 2011 tax reports are out now so things should pick up.
–“I told her I’ll go with the lesser of two evils, I would go with Obama, and she said, ‘What, so you want to live in a communist nation? You want to live in a communist state, because that’s what’s going to happen,’”–
The full-mooners really miss the Soviets, don’t they? They were the unifying principle.
Sorry, but the American people, after expending much blood and treasure, stood them down. They’re gone.
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 21, 12 @ 6:43 am:
Rich,
Read the info on that Rush FB page. It is not him or his people. Just a page ran by some fan with no connection to the EIB Network.
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 21, 12 @ 7:03 am:
Rush shilling for Shilling
- Sideliner - Friday, Sep 21, 12 @ 8:59 am:
The phone pollster was probably an unpaid volunteer. Straying off the response tree usually works about that well.
- downstater - Friday, Sep 21, 12 @ 9:37 am:
Here’s the deal. Politicians say things that later get them to look like hypocrits. It happens all the time, it isn’t news. BUT it has been happening to Booby a lot. First, he railed against Hare mailing constituents legislative updates and now he is the poset child for that kind of government waste. Second, he railed against Hare for taking money from outside the district and now is is taking Rush’s money. Lastly of course, is his campaign jumping all over the “Hare moment” about the health care law, but now he isn’t willing to even answer the same kind of questioning. I hate that political townhalls have become shouting matches trying to get people wrapped up in a “gitcha moment,” but wasn’t it Bobby’s tea party that really mastered that?
- downstater - Friday, Sep 21, 12 @ 9:38 am:
bobby… not booby.. wasn’t trying to make a lame attempt at humor, my fingers just get a head of me.
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 21, 12 @ 9:46 am:
Again- that FB page is not affiliated with the actual Rush Limbaugh at all. Click the link to check for yourself.
- Hold Your Horses - Friday, Sep 21, 12 @ 10:16 am:
Really Rich, can you change the headline on the story. You would pummel, and often have, any media outlet that would put up such a misleading headline.
This is direct from the page you cited.
Disclaimer: Rush Limbaugh does not operate the Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network fanpage. We are simply enthusiasts of his work.
- redrum - Friday, Sep 21, 12 @ 11:46 am:
Who do the voters of the 17th District think they are trying to ask Bobby Schilling, the man they pay $187,321 per year, where he stands on key issues? Do these taxpayers really think Schilling has to answer their question? Let alone give them a “yes” or “no” response. The nerve of these navies!!!!
- RightGirl - Friday, Sep 21, 12 @ 1:34 pm:
“I heard” stories of volunteer phone pollsters? Doesn’t everyone know of someone who who talked to someone wierd in support of a candidate? It was a slow news day apparently, but Romney’s 2011 tax reports are out now so things should pick up.
- wordslinger - Friday, Sep 21, 12 @ 3:20 pm:
–“I told her I’ll go with the lesser of two evils, I would go with Obama, and she said, ‘What, so you want to live in a communist nation? You want to live in a communist state, because that’s what’s going to happen,’”–
The full-mooners really miss the Soviets, don’t they? They were the unifying principle.
Sorry, but the American people, after expending much blood and treasure, stood them down. They’re gone.