Last week we posted on the toolkit that the Family Research Council was distributing to its members urging them to organize town hall events in opposition to healthcare reform in their local churches.
Well, it looks like this effort has gotten off to a fast start, thanks to Sen. David Vitter, who recently participated in one of these events which was organized by and featured FRC President Tony Perkins:
On his Facebook page, David Vitter just thanked Family Research Council President and former Louisiana legislator Tony Perkins for hosting a Vitter event in a church last night.
“Last night I participated in a community wide town hall in Greenwell Springs to discuss health care reform. Was a great meeting. Special thanks to Tony Perkins and a group of local churches who partnered together to host a panel discussion on health… care, allowing over 800 in attendance to participate in this important topic.”
Several videos from the event have now appeared on YouTube and they show the event to be every bit as enlightening as we would expect.
Right off the bat, after Sen. Vitter thanks “Tony,” he says that he is particularly delighted to finally participate in a church-based discussion about healthcare and hopes to have several more such faith-based discussions around the state.
Then came questions from the audience about the entire effort just being a power-grab by Obama, as well as questions about abortion and conscience protections. At no point did Vitter try to correct the audience’s misunderstandings and, instead, worked to reinforce them.
Then came this fascinating statement from an audience member in which he claimed that Vladimir Putin had recently written a column for Pravda urging President Obama not to try Marxism because it doesn’t work before declaring that he was one of those uninsured that politicians keep talking about, but that he was uninsured by choice. It seems that the audience member doesn’t trust medicine and doesn’t see a need for it and that what is really needed is to “get Americans weaned off of the medical care system all together” … at which point the audience bursts into applause before the speaker goes on the cite a doctor in New Orleans who has been able to cure every cancer patient he has seen in the last twenty years in just three weeks by simply using Vitamin C:
This final video starts out with an attack on Van Jones, which is reinforced by Sen. Vitter who says that all of Obama’s czars are unconstitutional. The next question is about the past writings of Obama’s science adviser John Holdren, which has been a topic of right-wing outrage for several weeks now. Around the 4:00 mark of this video, Perkins’ voice pops up in response to the Holdren question where he decries the “influence of authors who put these crazy ideas out there and are embraced by liberal politicians” and saying that he has “no dobut” that healthcare reform would lead to forced sterilization:
