Yesterday we heard about a gonzo story out of Clifton, New Jersey. According to a local paper (which has now scrubbed its article), employees of the PAC of Hoffman-La Roche pharmaceuticals were passing out pamphlets calling President Obama a fascist and showing pictures of him with a Hitler mustache.
One health care reform supporter got so incensed that she came back with a bag of purple paint and splashed it on the women and their offending signs.
When I heard about this, I thought, ‘Wow, Hitler/Obama comparisons are sort of a dime a dozen these days. But that’s pretty out there for a major pharmaceutical company.’
Well, turns out the police had the details a bit wrong. They weren’t with La Roche, which has its headquarters in Clifton. It was LaRouche, as in the Lyndon LaRouche crazies who’ve been stalking health care events around the country and managing to outcrazy the GOP activists, which these days is saying somethin’.
A rep from La Roche (the real La Roche) was more than happy to explain the confusion to our Rachel Slajda.
