UConn College Republicans

Last Thursday, Oct. 22nd, a group of 4 loud students dressed up in “Rich People clothes” and publicly humiliated themselves with singing and chanting with “Rich People accents”.

Here’s a video. Unfortunately, I saw them while on my way to Physics class so only got about 2 minutes of footage. The last segment was found elsewhere on Youtube:

This was their way of mocking people with real concerns about the current healthcare agenda, while making the insinuation that the only reason a person would not want a public option is because they are either a rich corporate hack, or a tool of an insurance company.

This type of thinking has already been shown to us, if not in real life, then in Southpark’s comical depiction of the “College Know it all Hippies”.

“You are playing into the corporate game, see they are turning you into Little Eichmanns so that they can make money” is prettymuch a summary of what these “Billionaires for Wealthcare” protesters’ message is.

So, they created a protest based around the idea that we are part of some corporate machine conspiracy…what a great way to reduce the fear that you aren’t pushing a socialist agenda, eh?

But apparently, this “Billionaires for Wealthcare” idea isn’t an original idea that these students created on their own. No, they most likely saw it on The Rachel Maddow Show over there on MSNBC. Afterall, Maddow has been advocating “Billionaires for Wealthcare” as “the antidote to the 12ers”.

Maddow featured these “Billionaires for Wealthcare” people again, after they interrupted a Health Insurance conference with their satirical singing, or as she calls it “nailing the health insurance industry”. Maddow displays the headline referring to these Billionaires folks as “Guerillas” while saying “I’ve never been happier talking about healthcare in my life than I am right now.”

By the way, Nancy Pelosi, I’m waiting for you to call these singing protesters “Un-American“. Afterall, they didn’t only interrupt but they drowned out the discussion as well.

So, to further this whole mess, recently, President Obama and Rahm Emanuel have criticized Fox News as not being a legitimate News organization. Meanwhile, Obama invited MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann to the White House for an “off-the-record briefing with the President”.

Maddow said this of Fox News: “The difference between Fox and news is that Fox is now actively organizing and promoting a protest movement against the U.S. government.”

Well, as I have shown and as a spin on Rachel Maddow’s comment, “The difference between MSNBC and news is that MSNBC is now actively organizing and promoting a protest movement FOR the U.S. government.”

Which is more dangerous? You decide.