“Senator Who?” Michael Bennett Gets the Code Pink Treatment on Single Payer Socialized Medicine
by T.L. James | 11:08 am, July 3, 2009 | 1 Comment

Last night in Denver, Colorado’s appointed Senator Michael “Senator Who?” Bennett attended (briefly and at the last minute) a “townhall forum” on “comprehensive healthcare reform” put on by the self-parodyingly-named Metro Organization of People.
As with all such townhalls, this one was strictly formatted and the questions for Back-and-Forth Bennett were given to him in advance to reduce the possibility of unfortunate gaffes and/or departures from the Obama machine’s coordinated message. Naturally, this meant (as they reminded us several times as we waited and waited for Michael Bennett’s not-so-fashionably late arrival) that questions from the audience were not welcome and would not be addressed.
Well, I guess the closed agenda didn’t sit too well with a Ralph Nader supporter, who wore a “Nader’s Raiders” T-shirt and had clearly waited paitently for Both-Ways Bennett’s to show up to at last interrupt him on the third scripted question with his own impressively-bellowed commentary/question on “single-payer” (ie: fully socialized healthcare):
How amusing to see a juvenile tactic developed by the radical left now being turned against their one-time allies. As Obama and the Democrats continue to disappoint the more radical members of their base, expect to see more of this sort of thing.
We’ll have a few more clips from the “comprehensive healthcare reform” forum up later today, including Senator Michael Bennett’s much-delayed and ultimately lackluster, Keanu-Reeves-style performance. It was an interesting event, just not in the way the organizers might have intended…
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July 9th, 2009 @ 10:53 pm
The rudely radical star of this video vignette looked awfully familiar, but I couldn’t quite place his name, so I queried our network of watchers who’d infiltrated the event. No positive ID, but one of our observers DID spy the errant interrupter as he was leaving the event – in a BRAND NEW (2009) dark blue BMW (reportedly one of the sporty 3-series).
Apparently, professional protesting is a lucrative business (or he has some well-heeled funders behind his staged spontaneity).
I mean, good grief, we’ve all heard of limousine liberals – but now, performance-car progressives?
P.S. we’re offering a reward for a positive ID on the errant interrupter – Name, Contact Info, any known affiliations.
Unfortunately, since we’re NOT funded by a passel of “progressive” millionaires, the reward is modest – free beer at the next LOTR event, and everlasting fame in the freedom underground…