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A Protest of One: Video Shows Last Gasp of Life of Obama's Once-Dominant Volunteer Army

There are no coincidences in the Obama “Community Organizing” organized hard-left.

Last month in Illinois at the Right Nation event, bused-in SEIU hordes coordinated with social justice activist ministers and Obama’s vaunted Organizing for America (formerly Obama for America) waving American flags that had been distributed to them by their “Community Organizers.” The well-trained mob chanted “Stop the Hate” and wielded uniform, hand-crafted placards defaming Glenn Beck as a “liar” and a “hater.” What we were able to discover in short order, and quite predictably, was this group was “astro-turf” and with the provocation of simple questions, such as: “What does your sign mean?”, “Why are you here?”, the “Stop the Hate” rally devolved into spitting and inflammatory name-calling.

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Someone, somewhere has had a plan to dress the union thugs up as pious and deeply patriotic now that a progressive socialist is in the White House, and to frame non-progressives, non-socialists and critics of the Obama Administration as out-of-tune with Jesus’s “Social Justice” activism (history revisionism at its worst) and un-patriotic.

When I was standing outside the News Corp. building Monday evening before my appearance on “Red Eye,” I saw a lone protester who looked not-unlike Scooby-Doo’s sidekick, Shaggy. His name is Matt Sky. He and his girlfriend are relatively infamous for being the most photographed supporters of the Ground Zero Mosque due to their constant, ubiquitous protests in front of the Cordoba House site.

In reading about Matt Sky, ubiquitous Manhattan protester, he’s been referred to as a math tutor and web programmer. In what type of economy does a math tutor and web programmer have this amount of free time to do so much protesting? In another less politically correct time, a reporter would start asking him whether or not he is actually employed or whether he is another statistic of the staggering unemployment brought on by the horrendous Obama economy.

In Matt Sky I noticed a now-familiar motif: Leftist archetype (this time, a young hippie) holding a sign employing Alinski’s Rule 13 (Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it) in this case, Glenn Beck is the President and OFA’s #1 target, and Sky’s sign, like the ones we saw in Illinois, read “Glenn Beck Hates America.” Also, Sky predictably employed the activist-left’s new favorite protest prop, the American flag.

Some highlights of my encounter:


  • He comically and ironically calls for civility while proclaiming that Glenn Beck is an America hater, a nut job, and that Beck is scaring people. Is it not uncivil to hold up a sign suggesting Beck is inspired by hatred of our country?


  • He claims he’s neither politically left or right, but instead he’s for “civility,” but it’s all quickly revealed as a smokescreen. “Civility” is not on the left/right political spectrum; civility is a tactic or a set of manners, not a political position. He proves many on the left are ashamed to call themselves left or liberal. Or he thinks admitting his leftism will somehow diminish the effect of his protest. Later, he says liberals need to proudly proclaim their liberalism in a short interview when he sheepishly refuses to follow his own advice.


  • Also, it’s worth pointing out that Beck and his supporters are provably more civil than the left; consider how those who attended the left-wing ONE NATION rally trashed the mall last weekend, while those who attended Beck’s rally left it pristine. Or the countless videos we have shown that have shown violence and hatred coming from Obama’s Organizing for America, the SEIU and MoveOn.Org.

President Obama, whose OFA helped organize the “anti-hate rally” in Chicago that devolved into his group hurling anti-gay epithets as they ran back onto their bus after being confronted with simple questions about the meaning of their protest, has shown he is petty enough to focus his presidential efforts by attacking his media critics. One of his first acts as President was to go after Rush Limbaugh. He has also shown a transparent disposition to re-invent and flaunt left-wing interpretations of Christian religiosity and American Patriotism. He and the left are arrogantly trying to define patriotism as solely left-wing virtues.

I knew that when I confronted Sky that I would be met with an “Obama-bot”: Either a paid union thug, or, in this case, an ill-informed, cliché-spouting left-wing activist. The number of willing and able volunteers that were abundant during the 2008 Presidential campaign seem to be dwindling and our flag-waving progressive anti-Beckian, seems to be one of the last people to get the message that his savior is greatly to blame for our country’s doldrums and economic woes — and not the guy who appears on Direct TV Channel 360 at 5PM EDT (check your local cable listings for time and channel near you.)

Sky seemed like a nice enough guy, but his contradictory answers make for a humorous view into the sad state of Obama and Democrat support… there is very little these days. There is only the predictable politics of personal destruction against those who are not in power, those who are not the Commander-in-Chief and those who are not the leader of the free world. “Dissent is patriotic” has devolved into the most blatant attempts to shut-up and marginalize the other side of the debate. How pathetically and predictably Left-Wing. At least Hugo Chavez knows how to do it right.

Let this episode be instructive to all who witness it. The noise and bluster we see from these pre-fab sign-holding, flag-waving malcontents is the beginning and end of their argument. As soon as any intrepid citizen-journalist engages these pre-programmed agitators with a question or two, they reveal emptiness and contradictions as quickly as Sky did.

I’ll give this polite yet confused Obama supporter credit where credit is due: At least he didn’t call me a homosexual like his peers in Chicago did.


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