Teabagger/LaRouche Alliance?

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The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports another Teabagger/Townhall incident up in the Worcester, Mass. This time it was Reps. McGovern (D) and Neal (D) heckled and shouted down several times by unruly Bay State Teabaggers at a townhall event U Mass Medical School.

Indeed, at one point, one heckler started likening Rep. McGovern to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, notorious for performing macabre experiments on concentration camp inmates.

But was it just Teabaggers?

It turns out a long-time TPM Reader (I’ll call him RZ to extra-super-double protect his anonymity) was there and he just after leaving the event he wrote in to tell us that at this event the Teabaggers were joined by a squad of LaRouchies.

About the Mengele incident, he writes …

In response to a question about medical effectiveness research, the gentleman wearing a shirt with President Obama sporting a Hitler mustache called our dean “Dr. Mengele” for suggesting we compare treatments to find those that are effective, safe and better than other medical treatments treatments. The conversation reached a low at that point.

Apparently the Mengele outburst came in response to a question about medical effectiveness research came from a non-Teabag, non-LaRouche sane woman in her 60s.

So I asked RZ, was the Mengele outburst from one of the Teabaggers or one of the LaRouchies?

Definitely Larouche… They are calling the Obama Plan a “Nazi health plan.” I couldn’t bring myself to take their literature. They made the Teabag crowd look civil.

Sounds like it was quite a special time.

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