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Please tell me. i've asked you a question. please answer it. >> okay. if you would stop talking i'd be happy to answer it. the overwhelming weight of the evidence, the scientific evidence, is that global warming is real. no one is talking about the government taking over health care. [ crowd noise ] >> don't pull the wool over our eyes. >> answer the question! >> i'm trying to. >> democratic congressman tim bishop of new york being shouted down and overwhelmed by a belligerent, organized crowd of hecklers that had no interest in letting him get a word out as he attempted to answer their questi...

Named bob macguffie affiliated with an organization called freedom works. freedom works is a washington, d.c., lobbying firm run by former republican majority leader dick armey. corporate lobbyists are organizing far right hooligan tactics to disrupt civic meetings about health care reform. this is the organized use of intimidation as a political tool in the united states, and i don't mean intimidation euphemistically. i mean literal intimidation. new york congressman tim bishop who we showed you earlier ended up having to be escorted to his car by five police officers for his own safety after...

I've asked you a question. please answer it. >> okay. if you would stop talking i'd be happy to answer it. the overwhelming weight of the evidence, the scientific evidence, is that global warming is real. no one is talking about the government taking over health care. [ crowd noise ] >> don't pull the wool over our eyes. >> answer the question! >> i'm trying to. >> democratic congressman tim bishop of new york being shouted down and overwhelmed by a belligerent, organized crowd of hecklers that had no interest in letting him get a word out as he attempted to answer their questions. this could ...

It would cover everyone. we have 45 million people who are insured, congressman. people who have signed on in the united states congress, 90 people. >> sit down. sit down. sit down. >> why won't you cosponsor hr-76 single payor universal health care? >> this type of tactic and intimidation is a deliberate choice and it appears to be stoked and organized by corporate lobbyists and it is not something that is happening in a vacuum. let me give you another example of what's passed off as politics right now by lobbying interests on the political right. when the climate change bill came before the ...

Instructions like this? that memo was written by a man named bob macguffie affiliated with an organization called freedom works. freedom works is a washington, d.c. lobbying firm run by former republican majority leader dick armey. corporate lobbyists are organizing far right hooligan tactics to disrupt civic meetings about health care reform. this is the organized use of intimidation as a political tool in the united states and i don't mean intimidation euphemistically. i mean literal intimidation. new york congressman tim bishop who we showed you earlier ended up having to be escorted to his...