{"id":467139,"date":"2010-03-24T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80112"},"modified":"2010-03-24T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:00:22","slug":"gop-rep-sure-tea-partiers-were-rowdy-but-so-was-michael-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/467139","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep: Sure, Tea Partiers Were Rowdy, But So Was Michael Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing, rubber-and-glue <a href=\"http:\/\/dyn.politico.com\/printstory.cfm?uuid=888F6430-18FE-70B2-A8E78DC80BDF871C\">comment<\/a> from Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) in a perceptive Glenn Thrush and Marin Cogan piece (one of several from the past 72 hours) about blowback from the tone of the GOP&#8217;s defeat on health care reform:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When the CodePinkers and [Michael] Moore et al. were up here, you should\u2019ve heard some of the things they were saying. At any time there is a heated public debate, people say things they shouldn\u2019t say. We don\u2019t condone it. &#8230; It wasn\u2019t appropriate then, and it wasn\u2019t appropriate now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, while Code Pink activists were generally allowed to stay in committee rooms when they held up slogans and signs &#8212; making for amusing wire photos &#8212; they were regularly kicked out of the rooms when they made noise, as in this 2007 instance:<span id=\"more-80112\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jmifC7weWnY\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jmifC7weWnY\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0310\/34765.html\">pretty far cry from this weekend&#8217;s Republican display<\/a> that saw members holding up signs encouraging protesters outside of the Capitol, and even applauding a heckler who made it into the House gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing, rubber-and-glue comment from Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) in a perceptive Glenn Thrush and Marin Cogan piece (one of several from the past 72 hours) about blowback from the tone of the GOP&#8217;s defeat on health care reform: When the CodePinkers and [Michael] Moore et al. were up here, you should\u2019ve heard some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}