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A How To Guide for Teabaggers

by David Kurtz
08.03.09 | 9:43 am

A strategy memo titled “Rocking the Town Halls — Best Practices,” aimed at the anti-health care reform crowd, suggests disrupting town hall style meetings held by members of Congress: “Stand up and shout.”

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