When is AstroTurf not AstroTurf?

Published May 9, 2011 4:00am ET



When people are supporting Democrats, of course!

In August 2009, as Americans across the country took to townhalls to protest the overwhelmingly unpopular national health care legislation moving through Congress, Democrats and the Obama administration dismissed the backlash as mere “astroturf” organized by Republicans and large corporations.

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