August 24, 2009 06:59 PM UTC

Mobbing The Debate: Not Just Health Care Anymore!

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• by: Colorado Pols

Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals meets the Flat Earth Society, as the Greeley Tribune reports:

An oil-lobby funded rally will come to Greeley on Tuesday to sway residents against upcoming climate change legislation.

The event, billed by the American Petroleum Institute’s “Energy Citizens” as a rally for jobs and affordable energy, has been called by Greenpeace a coordinated and staged attack on upcoming climate change legislation.

The rally in Greeley, one of 22 planned throughout the country, will start at 12:30 p.m. at Island Grove Regional Park. Other rallies across the country have attracted picketers and protesters.

Earlier this month, the Greenpeace organization in Washington revealed an internal memo by the president of the API, discussing the rally organization and how to use specific information to increase opposition to the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009…

Oh pish-posh on all that talk of “astroturfing” and “internal memos.” The anger expressed tomorrow in Greeley will be “genuine.” In fact, much like the recent health care protests, it all boils down to one issue for “Tea Partiers” and Glenn Beck-proselytized “912er” protesters, as Rush Limbaugh said on the radio a couple of weeks ago:

Now what are the similarities between the Democrat Party of today and the Nazi party in Germany?  Well, the Nazis were against big business.  They hated big business and, of course, we all know that they were opposed to Jewish capitalism.  They were insanely, irrationally against pollution…

Okay, you’re right, the Nazi part isn’t in the American Petroleum Institute’s internal memo–what a relief, Limbaugh’s got the messy (but indispensable for a good turnout) rhetoric handled.