Staffers for corporate front group organizing anti-health rallies refuse to reveal their names.

[Joanne98]

On Tuesday, right-wing billionaire David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) organized yet another anti-health reform rally on Capitol Hill. Part of AFP’s strength is its secrecy. The organization, a front group for corporate interests, has set up multiple other front groups and tea party events to create a veneer of public support for its agenda. ThinkProgress attempted to interview AFP staffers who were coordinating the event, but they refused to even reveal their real names:

TP: What’s your name?

AFP STAFFER: Puddin Tain. … Puddin Tain. <...>

PROTESTER: What’s your name?

TP: My name’s Lee Fang.

PROTESTER: Lee Fang? Are you an American?

TP: Why do you ask?

PROTESTER: I’m just asking a question, just as you are.

Watch it
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/17/afp-secret-names/

[rwheeler31]

1. Can anyone identify them as staffers?

[Crabitha]

2. For all their illerate shouting of ridiculosity, these people are having an effect

if we want our voices heard, we need to start attending these rallies as anti-protesters or whatever you would call it when people protest the protesters. Everybody on this group does a lot of ranting but we do it amongst ourselves in the privacy of our homes by typing it into a computer. We need to get out there on the streets and oppose these idiots. Let's start a real grassroots movement.