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Franken Talks Down Angry Group at State Fair - How Town Halls and Civil Discourse Works

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When Senator Al Franken was confronted by an angry mob of teabagger/anti-healthcare-reform types, he calmly, rationally and intelligently talked them down, setting an example for how to conduct reasoned discourse that relies on facts and rationality rather than fear. There was no yelling, but instead civilized disagreement and discourse. THIS is how a town hall should go.  This is the proper way for civil discourse in this country.  Franken may be deemed a "comedian", but he came out very Senatorial here. More detail and live witness here

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A Look At The So-Called "Grassroots" Movements

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The Republican Party and Fox News have recently been talking about the so called  "Grassroots movements", similar to the "Tea Parties", recently sweeping the country.  These "movements" claim to be ordinary people, fed up with the government, spontaneously rising up and confronting their representatives.  What's recently been shown and proven however is that just like the "Tea Parties" before them, this has all been orchestrated by powerful right-wing lobbying groups and corporations.  These people have been instructed not only to show their anger, but how to STOP the civil discourse and debate required by a healthy democracy.

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