Townhaller Katy Abram Member Of Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project

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Katy Abram cast herself into the national media by attending a townhall meeting hosted by Sen. Arlen Spector. Her over-the-top rhetoric about "awakening a sleeping giant" set her up for interviews with local media as well as national media such as her embarassing segment on MSNBC's Hardball and The Fox News Channels Hannity's America. On Hardball, Katy Abram praised her health insurance plan which she described as a "health savings account that has a $5,000 plus dollar deductable." yet she continued by saying that "over the course of a year "we pay all of our medical cost, doctor visits out-of-pocket." Abrams then mentioned that it has been tough this year because "my son had surgery and it looks like we have a second surgery, but we're almost at our deductable, so that's good." Abram said to my utter disbelief as well as, I am sure, the many millions that where watching and listening as the words left her mouth.

However, the most stunning part of the interview was when Hardball guest host Lawrence O'Donnell questioned Abrams about her claim that she was 35 years old and never had an interest in politics until now. When asked how she made it through 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with out taking an interest, Abrams replied. "To be honest, I didn't really care. I had other things going on. I was busy getting married, having kids. It really wasn't a priority."

On Fox News' Hannity's America, host Sean Hannity didn't really ask any substative questions. Instead, he used the segment to prise Abram and her husband who also took part in the segment.

We know know that Abrams wasn't as disinterested in politics as she indicated during that townhall meeting, or her subsequent interviews with Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. It is now known that Abram is a member of Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project and according to messages that Abrams posted on the 9/12 Projects Message Board, she was very active in hosting meetings and recruiting others to attend a meeting sponsered by her and her husband. I suppose you could say that Abrams is a community organizer. Rut-Row!

Now Abram is engaged in a media tour in protest of the wave of nagative criticism being hurled at her left and right, including myself. Like Heather Blish who also thrust herself into the media spotlight by claiming to be just a regular citizen and not affiliated with the Republican Party. It was quickly learned that Blish was not only affiliated with the Republican Party, but it's Co-Chair for the local committee.

If Abram didn't want the feel the wrath of the "real" outraged segment of the American electorate, she should have either said that she has only been interested in politics since Obama's election, or not given any indication of the length of her political interest. I admit that some of the criticism is mean spirited and as over-the top as her own rhetoric, but to that end I would like to quote former Vice President Dick Cheney by saying - "SO WHAT!" If you can't take the heat, stay out of the God Damn kitchen.

More importantly, what Abram is experiencing now should give her a good indication of how the Senators and Congressman feel when they encounter the very type of rude and hostile mob that she made herself a part of. She got up and tried to embarrass Sen. Spector with her right-wing talking points at a voice level that was far beyond necessary. So, I guess that settles it? Payback is a bitch........

- Chico Brisbane

Katy Abram's messages postings from Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project Members Forum.

Katy Abram
Posted Feb 28, 2009 4:09 PM
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if anyone would like to join us in Lebanon, PA please click this link to join our Qlubb.com group. Here we can keep in touch with eachother...'http://wesurroundthemlebanonpa.qlubb.com/show



Posted Feb 27, 2009 8:24 AM
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I am located in Lancaster County, Lititz, to be exact. I am looking for a "Surround Them" Get Together (Glenn Beck project) somewhere in this vicinity. Debbie I am hosting a party in down town Lebanon. We are only 25-30 minutes away. We are meeting at the Downtown Lounge on Cumberland Street.

Posted Mar 5, 2009 2:23 PM
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my husband and i are hosting a party in Lebanon, PA. I was going to have it at our home, but if we have enough attendees I will move it to a local restaurant/pub. Let me know if you're interested. We're 25-30 minutes from Hbg and 25 minutes from Manheim

Below is Abrams tearful radio interview with Glenn Beck, in which Beck tells Abrams that the nagative attention that she is getting is the result of the left not having an argument and than in those cases, they resort the the tactics of Iranian Leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.






http://www.meetup.com/WeSurroundThemGathering/messages/boards/thread/6367531#25639298
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Is Harold Ford Trying Out For The Republican Party?

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Harold Ford: I Would Have Voted To Approve Torture

This weekend, former Vice President Cheney repeated his claim that torture “saved thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of lives.” Of those, like President Obama, who condemn torture as making America less safe, Cheney insisted, “in effect, we’re prepared to sacrifice American lives rather than run an intelligent interrogation program that would provide us the information we need to protect America.”
This evening on MSNBC, former Democratic congressman Harold Ford, Jr., adopted many of Cheney’s right-wing talking points to defend torture, saying he was “not as outraged as some are about” what happened at Guantanamo. He suggested that he even would have voted to approve torture in order to “prevent the destruction of an American city”:
FORD: You have to remember when this was occurring. This is 2002, 2003. The country was in a different place, in a different space. And if you were to say to me, as an American, put aside my partisanship, that we have an opportunity to gain information that would prevent the destruction of an American city, to prevent killings in American cities, and we have to use certain techniques, I’m one of those Americans that would have voted a certain way, Chris. And that polling said it might have been torture, but I’m not as outraged.
Watch it:


Matthews was incredulous, telling Ford, “You are veering into Cheney country here.” He said Ford’s talking point about the destruction of an American city was “Cheney talk.” “That’s what he used to justify torture,” Matthews said.
The ticking-time-bomb scenario Ford seems to invoke is simply a “red herring” that “doesn’t happen” in the real world. And according to the interrogators themselves, torturing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah — the two Cheney most frequently cites as “proof” of torture’ effectiveness — provided no actionable intelligence.
ThinkProgress released an extensive report today, Why Bush’s ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ Program Failed.