the looney bachmann has captured the headline on the nytimes.com

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Thousands of opponents of the Democrats’ health care legislation are gathered outside the Capitol, for a noon news conference and rally led by Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota, and the chants are
already under way, echoing across the Mall.

“Kill the bill!” they are shouting. “Kill the bill!”

A series of spot interviews suggests that the protesters have come to Washington from all across the country – Texas, Ohio, Oregon and the greater Washington area. It’s a generally older crowd, many in their 50s and 60s, predominantly, white, and many self-identified as Christians. They are fiercely conservative and deeply skeptical of the government, many of them adamantly opposed to abortion rights.

“The government couldn’t even get the shots out,” said Karen Ambrose of Sunbury, Ohio, ridiculing the government’s efforts to vaccinate people for the H1N1 flu as an example of what government-run health care would look like. “Let’s just get the government out of all this.”

The crowd is waving signs, some predictable, others inventive.

“No Socialistic Health Care.” “Sweeping Away Socialism One Democrat at a Time.” “Politicians Lie, Patients Die”

“You lie!”

“All lies”



http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/on-the-hill-protesters-chant-kill-the-bill/?pagemode=print

[trumad]

1. It's being reported as hundreds...not thousands...

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6. not at the new yawk times

[KharmaTrain]

2. I Never Wished A Disaster On Anyone...But...

The unfortunately shootings at Fort Hood has all but wiped out coverage of the teabagging orgy. I'm sure we'll hear right wing spinners claim the shooter musta been a "librul".

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3. “No Socialistic Health Care.”

There were alot of people there that looked eligible for Medicare. Medicare the Dems fought for back in the day...

I am soooo sick of these idiots.

[librechik]

4. I'm feeling sicker already

8 years before I'm eligible for Medicare--I have insurance, but my job is in jeopardy...

[subterranean]

5. The entire article consists of quotes from the teabagggers.

No attempt to provide any factual information whatsoever. It ends with a plug for Kaiser Permanente:

Mr. Scevola said that he had health insurance through his employer. “Kaiser Permanente,” he said proudly. “They are the best on the West Coast.”

Such is the state of modern American journalism.

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7. it's a republican factoid sheet posing as a news story