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Crowd Goes Wild for Bachmann at RightOnline (A Twitter Stream)
MINNEAPOLIS--I'm pressed for time between the RightOnline morning plenary and a panel on which I'm sitting at Netroots Nation (led by Amanda Marcotte, and featuring David Neiwert, Sarah Posner, David Holthouse and Jesse Taylor on the topic of mainstream media narratives on right-wing extremism).
RightOnline is a counter-conference to Netroots presented by the Americans For Prosperity Foundation, which is chaired by David Koch. The big speakers in this morning's session were Michelle Malkin and GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
Given the time thing, I thought I share a few tweets with you from my time at RightOnline, and catch up on the actual writing a bit later. If you like what you see, please follow me on Twitter: @addiestan
Tim Phillips
AFP Prez Tim Phillips blames gas prices on Obama; Arab revolutions hv nthing to do w/it; "unrest in Middle East for yrs." #RO11 #RWex
FYI - #RWex = right-wing extremism.
Tim Phillips: "We want to be good stewards of the environment...but we need cheap, abundant energy." #RO11 #koch #kochindustries #RWex
Tim Phillips describing AFP as the RW antidote to public employee unions and "radical environmentalists." #RO11 #koch
T. Phillips: Americans For Prosperity now has 32 state chapters (me: w/lotsa dough). You payin' attention, progressives? #RO11 #koch
Tim Phillips/AFP to crowd: the Wisconsin call ctr is open (in the hotel where they're meeting). Gonna miseducate Wisconsinites #RO11 #koch
RT @gmo418@addiestan he admits to being astroturf pinkerons of the koch boys, proud day
Tim Phillips/AFP to crowd: the Wisconsin call ctr is open (in the hotel where they're meeting). Gonna miseducate Wisconsinites #RO11 #koch
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin to kick off RightOnline plenary. #RO11
Malkin gets standing ovation. Opens w/Weiner joke. Hope AW is happy. #RO11
Malkin describes Netroots attendees as "Soros-funded flying monkeys." #RO11
RT @nathanhjb I'm so hot with wings...//
RT @ Nolan
We've never got a dime from soros/OSI
Malkin sez she turned 40; felt old, but #RO11 is "my fountain of youth." (shorter MM: Because everybody here is so much older than me.)
RT @daveweigel
Malkin weirdly attacks media for covering Palin: "a conservative woman who can't take a trip without people following her." #RO11
aterkel
Malkin makes fun of white liberals for calling her racist. 99% white crowd at #RO11 laughs.
Last night keynote: Breitbart. This AM: Malkin. A sneerfest of name-calling nastiness; somehow amounts to moral superiority. #RO11 #koch
RT @Pam_Spaulding #ro11 michelle malkin: "spurned Obama lovers conference" reference to #nn11 http://t.co/B2CZQEH
Malkin suggests Breitbart start site called "Big Balls." (I suggest "Big, Bad, Beautiful Breitbart," b/c his speeches are all abt him. #RO11
Malkin: Grassroots conservative movement needs "soul." Me: And its astroturf leaders need to reclaim theirs from #koch , et al. #RO11
RT @daveweigel
All about FOURSQUARE! WOO! RT @aterkel: Michelle Malkin: "Blogging is not new media anymore." #RO11
Malkin calls NYT judicial reporter L. Greenhouse biased b/c she marched for choice, and lawyer husband petitions for Gitmo detainees. #RO11
If Linda Greenhouse hs 'conflict of intrst' per Malkin, what abt WSJ's Stephen Moore's $135,000+ spkg fees frm AFP? http://tinyurl.com/3n6l3d9 #RO11
Guy sitting in front of me screaming "Hell, yes" and "Hell, no" in a kinda maniacal way. #RO11
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck special video message playing to RightOnline crowd. #RO11
Glenn Beck thanks crowd for putting fear into the heart of Van Jones & Geo. Soros. Funny, Van doesn't really look too scared. #RO11
Beck does bad Soros imitation, which sounds like Boris Badenov. #RO11
Michele Bachmann
Tim Phillips on Bachmann: "We were in on the secret early." Thought bubble: Uh, because we helped make Michele Bachmann. #koch #RO11
Bachmann looks great -- relaxed, enthusiastic. Progressives, don't underestimate her. #RO11 #NN11
Bachmann mocks John King's "this or that" questions in CNN debate. #RO11
Bachmann makes neat use of gender as a favorable contrast point; sez she worried she'd get "boxers or briefs" question. #RO11
Bachmann clearly the presidential favorite of this crowd. Huge cheer when she mentioned she filed her candidate papers. #RO11
Before you decide I'm sexist for mentioning Bachmann's sartorial style, I'm making a point abt her adaptability to her audience. #RO11
@daveweigel
Bachmann warns seniors that they'll be rolled into Obamacare and out of... err... single payer. FREEDOM! #RO11
Bachmann repeats trope about 16,000 new IRS agents ostensibly being hired to enforce health-care reform. Not true, BTW. #RO11
Bachmann repeats trope about 16,000 new IRS agents ostensibly being hired to enforce health-care reform. Not true, BTW. #RO11
Crowd on feet for Bachmann's call for "full-scale repeal" of Obamacare. #RO11
Bachmann has audience doing origami with actual dollar bills. Next up: yoga to illustrate flexible spending accounts. #RO11
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