Conservative media spent much of Friday attacking Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) for breaking up a GOP meeting Thursday evening in his Orlando district. Rush Limbaugh talked about the confrontation for good chunks of his show and Fox News hit the story several times, as did Michelle Malkin.
Though the media outlets didn't make it clear, Grayson had a specific objective in attending the meeting. Grayson had obtained an email from Ron Janssen, the District One Republican Chairman, telling fellow Republicans that at the next meeting there would be a guest speaker who had "snuck behind enemy lines into an Organizing For America Meeting." He wanted to know if the Orange County Republicans approved of the tactic.
Organizing for America (OFA) is the outgrowth of Obama's campaign machine, comprised of millions of activists.
"Diana Evans is a staunch fellow Conservative Republican, who snuck behind enemy lines into an Organizing For America Meeting and learned what they are up to, and she learned a lot. She will share that with us, and how we can counteract their efforts. You will not want to miss this. It is so simple, you all will wonder how we could have missed it," wrote Janssen.
Janssen, reached by HuffPost in Orlando, said that it was Grayson who's guilty of spying, for getting a copy of the email he wrote. The OFA spy, he said, came to them with information and wasn't sent by the party.
"If we had orchestrated it I might be able to say that that was the case," Janssen said of Grayson's charge of untoward tactics. "But somebody came to me, and it was just a couple gals who decided to go do this on their own. His was concentrated; he has obviously somehow gotten into the Orange County Republican Executive Committee database, and he has gotten that email, somehow, that I sent out, and he then acted on it. So if there's any spying, I would say, that's underway, it's actually more by him."
Nonsense, said Grayson. "I got several copies of his email. This is not because I send people there operating through deception, it's because I have a lot of Republican support," Grayson told HuffPost. "It's very revealing he thinks there's no difference between what they did and what I did."
Grayson said he went to the meeting to ask the Republicans there if they approved of the stealth tactics. "I just thought that was really cheap. It seems that the Republican Party is returning to its Nixonian roots - corruption, lying and spying -- and I wanted to know what the people there thought of that," he said.
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Fucking shit, I love this guy. There's more if you want to keep reading, but that's the gist of it. Here's the GOP-edited video.
You know what this reminds me of? Brief history lesson, but it's relevant, maybe. In 1772, a few years before the revolution would break out, Benjamin Franklin was living in England. He was negotiating fragile compromises between England and the colonies. An anonymous source leaked some letters to him, written by the governor of Massachusetts. In the letters, Governor Hutchinson listed recommendations on how to quell growing dissent in the colonies, even suggesting that they start taking away rights. This pissed Franklin off. He passed the letters on to his friends back in America, who went on to publish them against his wishes.
The British government was outraged that someone would leak these letters. Franklin eventually came forward after three others were falsely accused. The British were fucking pissed. They accused him of attempting to incite riots. This is treason, and punishable by death. In the entire hour-long spectacle that was his treason hearing, Franklin refused to say a single word. If he had not fled back to the colonies, he would've been arrested and hanged. Balls of fucking steel.
Now what's the point of this? Franklin, along with every other patriot in America, was confused as hell, because this whole time the British government completely ignored the contents of the letters. It didn't fucking matter to them. All that mattered is that someone leaked them for the purpose of making THEM look bad. Nobody cared that they were going to start taking away rights, which lo and behold, they began doing shortly afterward.
The moral of the story? No matter how damning the mounting evidence against shitheads get, they will always try to find ways to ignore what they did entirely, and make it all the other guy's fault. I'm sure it was Obama's fascist and communist tactics that forced the GOP into resorting to tactics used by communists and fascists. Obama's fault once again, check and mate librulz.
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