Now this must have been embarrassing:
#AARP objects to #Obama invoking group’s support during debate, claims org. is not aligned with either candidate fxn.ws/QTgoz7
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 4, 2012
Via @MelissaTweets. Horrible thing, when an interest group that you bought fair and square won’t stay bought…
(Brief summary for those lacking video: Dallas AARP meeting went wrong for organizers when participants refused to sit down, shut up, and applaud Democratic talking points. Organizers then left; meeting continued.)
Complete with their quoting Madison and their insisting that AARP worked for them and not the other way around and their refusal to believe that AARP isn’t sucking up to the administration on health care rationing. The sheer nerve of them, acting like they were real, live citizens of both the United States of America and the state of Texas. I mean: they’re all over fifty!
(Via AoSHQ)
The young people trying to run the Dallas AARP meeting (while almost-successfully managing to hide their baffled contempt at the way that the audience refused to take direction) certainly thought so. Up to the point where they ran away.
Moe Lane
PS: Exit question: when one of John Sweeney’s union thugs messes up and smacks around some guy in a walker without checking for cameras – how do you think that will play in Peoria? Shoot, how do you think that will play in Chicago or Detroit?
Crossposted to RedState.
AARP will easily get away with it, too.
In fact, I do believe that there’s a threat here:
As publishers of the world’s largest magazine and the preeminent online destination for individuals 50+, we understand the desire to pursue advertising revenue. Additionally, no one is immune from our current economic crisis and we can appreciate your plea for increased ad revenue. That said, we also strongly honor the integrity of our journalists and writers/editors/content developers. AARP would never allow advertisers to dictate our editorial content based on the amount of ad space purchased, and we would be hesitant to buy ads with any media that suggested it might act otherwise.
Bolding mine, and via Instapundit. Continue reading AARP declines to be shaken down by netroots.
