OpEdNews - Diary: Right wing protesters steal progressives' thunder

The right wing's teabagging protests underscore the superior coordination of conservatives and the apparent fecklessness of the Left. The right wingers are stealing the methods of the Left and, perhaps, winning at it. Or maybe the press simply gives the Right more coverage.

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As reported in Specter Supports Single-Payer, Sort of, At Teabaggered Town Hall With Sebelius on OpEdNews and in White House Isn't Concerned by Protests by the Wall Street Journal, right wing protesters are aggressively disrupting Democratic town hall meetings and shouting their talking points and distortions about health care reform. Expect more such protests when Democrats return home to their districts during the summer recess.

The Right's manufactured, faux protests may succeed, unless progressives and the news media spin the story correctly.

In contrast, years of anti-war, anti-globalization, and pro-health care reform protests have yielded meager results.

Will the Left let the Right steal their methods (populist street protests) and succeed where the Left failed? Will the mainstream media report about the artificiality of the Right's protests?

So far, it seems there's hope. Even the Wall Street Journal's report noted , "Briefing reporters Tuesday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs
suggested that the opposition is being organized by a small group
seeking to create 'manufactured anger.'"

But the press sure seems to give the Right's protests more coverage.

This could -- and probably SHOULD -- get ugly, because the Left needs to protest anew.