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Anti-Health Care Reform Tea Partiers Feeding Info To Lou Dobbs And “Friends at FOX News”

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If you had any doubt about where conservative cable news hosts were getting their information on health care, and the health care opposition movement, listen to this fulsome shout outs they get from their buddies in the tea party movement.

It’s a strategy and organizing call set up by the Recess Rally campaign, to get activists on the same page for a nationwide, August 22 rally. And at about minute 37, call organizer Michael Patrick Leahy (of #tcot fame) pulls the cat out of the bag and holds it up for everybody to see. “Lou Dobbs is very much in the health care protest corner. In the tea party corner,” Leahy says.

Look to Lou Dobbs. Also our friends at Fox News will cover this. So follow up with the Glenn Becks and the Neal Cavutos and the Sean Hannitys and Greta van Sustern. Just keep giving them information.

Coincidentally on those hosts’ programs, you can hear all about the grass roots anger about Democrats’ health care plans.

These calls occur biweekly and enjoy the participation of hundreds of organizers. As you’d expect, the hosts warn of the “craziness of the socialism in the health care bill”–a message which gets filtered down to the people who protest health care reform in the field.

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