Crazy health care protestors march on Hartford with pitchforks and torches

Nope … not tea party folks … it’s organized labor. Hmmmmm, who are the wild eyed extremist mobs? From Connecticut News Junkie:

Carrying pitchforks and torches a group of labor unions and health care groups marched down Church Street in Hartford Tuesday night to let the state’s largest business lobby know that they want health care reform.

John Murphy of the Connecticut Citizens Action Group said the Connecticut Business and Industry Association symbolizes what the group is up against in its fight for quality, affordable health care.

CBIA makes most of its revenue from selling insurance to small businesses, Murphy said. He said it is blocking reform efforts because under a government run system health care system it would lose money.

Actually I understand it’s just street theater, but imagine if it were tea party folks. Oh the humanity.

One other thing to note: The CBIA provides low cost group health insurance to small business (like mine), without whom small business likely couldn’t find affordable health care. Just saying is all.

Here’s the video:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2n3VRfi0g&feature=player_embedded

Posted in

Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

7 Comments

  1. Sal C on February 19, 2010 at 4:35 am

    Three things that were not at the key parties, one pitchforks,2 torches and finally scripts.

    Plus, it looks like they needed to have a little more rehearsal time before they went in front of the  camera to get the lines memorized from the crowd.

     

    God bless

    SalC



  2. Plainvillian on February 19, 2010 at 10:57 am

    Childish.  Poorly rehearsed.  Clumsy scripting.  Wooden delivery.  You know there's real passion when they read from the script.

    Yes, it is street theater – Sesame Street.

    And by the way, do you suppose the building's owner thought the torches were a good idea?  The police?



  3. Dimsdale on February 19, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    In Medieval times, these are the kinds of guys that would have boiling oil poured on them from castle parapets.



  4. pjdroney on February 20, 2010 at 7:44 am

    Oh my God….this would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. Maybe these people should watch the "tea partiers" to see how to protest with some credibility. These guys will never win an academy award…..they were acting, weren't they?



  5. donh on February 21, 2010 at 6:21 pm

    The prevailing humor in the movie Young Frankenstien is the playing with  fire in such things as candles and torches. This Union mob reminds me especially of Insepector Kemp who is currently Brass on the CBS show CSI…..



  6. donh on February 21, 2010 at 6:22 pm


  7. steadyjohn on March 12, 2010 at 1:43 pm

    Sooooo Lame!



The website's content and articles were migrated to a new framework in October 2023. You may see [shortcodes in brackets] that do not make any sense. Please ignore that stuff. We may fix it at some point, but we do not have the time now.

You'll also note comments migrated over may have misplaced question marks and missing spaces. All comments were migrated, but trackbacks may not show.

The site is not broken.