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On MSNBC this afternoon, Andrea Mitchell asked Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) about a MoveOn-organized protest outside his Salt Lake City office, where protesters criticized Hatch for allegedly being beholden to the insurance industry because it donated a lot of money to his past campaigns.

"I'm supported by people all over the health care system," Hatch said, "including doctors, including hospitals, including insurers, including liberal people, conservative people and moderate people. Everybody knows how much money you have to raise to run for the Senate."

Then Hatch turned his fury to MoveOn and George Soros.

"MoveOn.org is a scurrilous organization," he said. "It's funded by George Soros. He's about as left wing as you can find in this country. And they're up to just one thing, and that is to smear good people. And frankly, they're not gonna smear me without getting kicked in the teeth by me."

So...Hatch says he gets donations from all sorts of people -- "including liberal people" -- but as for that supposed left-winger George Soros and that "scurrilous" liberal group MoveOn.org -- they've got a kick in the teeth coming.

We'll have video for you shortly.

Late Update: An inside source points out what appears to be blatant inaccuracies in Hatch's claims about MoveOn.org and George Soros. The source says: "MoveOn is a PAC funded by small donors - including it's almost 23,000 members in Utah. It is not funded by Soros. It is a completely false right-wing talking point. Soros gave a one time contribution in 2004. MoveOn does not accept any donations over $5,000, and the average donation to MoveOn.org Political Action is under $100."

And here's that video.

Late Late Update: I've received the following statement from Justin Ruben, MoveOn.org's executive director.

Local Utah MoveOn members went to Orrin Hatch's office to question whether his opposition to health care reform is tied to the $900,000 he took from insurance interests, and what did he do? Go on national TV and threaten to kick them in the teeth. Apparently, this was easier than defending his ties to the insurance companies who have a stranglehold on our healthcare system. The people of Utah, including 23,000 Utah MoveOn members, deserve better. Hopefully, whoever Sen. Hatch kicks in the teeth is independently wealthy, in case their claim is denied by one of the insurance companies who've been funding his campaigns.

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October 15, 2009 2:43 PM   

Wow, violent rhetoric from a right wingnut conservative idiot? What a surprise. Good luck, jerk. MoveOn will crush you.

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October 15, 2009 2:47 PM   

Time to get out the old credit card again for MoveOn. Was this Hatch's intention?

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October 16, 2009 6:17 AM    in reply to MJMS

ONLY S-H-E-E-P-L-E will not admit that Soros funds MoveOn!
How does it feel to be a "useful idiot?"
Time for you Soros idiots to get off the plantation. The white self hating Jew massa doesn`t care about the little people. All the massa cares about is lining his own pocket. Wake up out of your Kool-Aid stupor, idiots!

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October 16, 2009 12:31 PM    in reply to GMAN

Here's the list of individual donors to MoveOn's PAC in the 2007-08 campaign cycle. If you find George Soros's name on there, you give us a call, mmkay?

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October 15, 2009 2:52 PM   

MoveOn is "scurrilous?" Really? And this is coming from someone who says they have a "kick in the teeth coming."

Typical Republican.

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October 15, 2009 2:53 PM   

And one of the richest financiers is the country is "about as left-wing as you can get." Go figure.

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October 15, 2009 2:55 PM   

Orrin thinks he receives donations from "liberal people"? What a moronic cur. More proof of the need for mandatory mental health evaluations for ALL Congress critters.

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October 15, 2009 3:07 PM   

poor orrin, if only liberals didn't exist.

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October 15, 2009 3:09 PM   

Methinks he would not be saying this is a bunch of Teabaggers were demonstrating outside his office.

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October 15, 2009 3:30 PM    in reply to commie atheist

Hatch is scared of the Tea Baggers -- they eat their own. Just ask Lindsey Graham.

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October 15, 2009 3:12 PM   

That's just rhetoric from the chickenhawk Hatch. If he really confronted someone one on one he would sh!t his pants in fear. Someone once told me he was originally from Pittsburgh, Pa. If so he wasn't there long enough to grow balls. All talk. He hasn't anyt6hing to fall back on except frank Luntz.

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October 15, 2009 3:14 PM   

That's just rhetoric from the chickenhawk Hatch. If he really confronted someone, one on one, he would sh!t his pants in fear. Someone once told me he was originally from Pittsburgh, Pa. If so, he wasn't there long enough to grow balls. All talk. He hasn't anything to fall back on except Frank Luntz inflamatory talking points.

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October 15, 2009 3:22 PM   

Only in the deepest, darkest recesses of the mind of this doddering demagogue would George Soros, super-capitalist extraordinaire, come off as "as left wing as they come in this country." Pray tell, "Orrin," what about Soros is left wing? That he doesn't send you and your fellow Republicans large checks for reelection campaigns? That he supports the Democratic party, another capitalist political party that would be to the right of virtually any political party in the world today, but the wingnut GOP?

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October 15, 2009 3:26 PM   

Did you hear Hatch on election day last November, he was practically sobbing. At one point he said he thought McCain would "pull it out," whatever the hell that means. Then he started whining about Obama is a communist or socialist --it sounded like he didn't know the difference. Then he lauches off on ACORN. The guy is a tool, always has been, always will be.

SG

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October 15, 2009 10:58 PM    in reply to SaintGenesius

I believe what Orrin meant by "pull it out" was that McCain would pull his head out of his ass. Being as McCain has been trying to do that, without success, for at least 50 years, the statement is truly a testament to the depth of Hatch's pulp-fiction faith.

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October 15, 2009 3:27 PM   

"Everybody knows how much money you have to raise to run for the Senate." And everybody in Utah knows that Orrin Hatch is a senator-for-life. He barely bothers to campaign. Wonder what he does with all the leftover money.

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October 15, 2009 3:44 PM   

Touchy, touchy. I wonder why he's so sensitive given his presumed invulnerability? You'd think they'd said he'd taken money from atheists or Muslims or homosexuals or something. Has AHIP managed to turn the industry into such a complete leper that Republicans now talk about "kicking people in the teeth" for being accused of associating with them?

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October 15, 2009 3:45 PM   

No, Orrin. We're going to kick you in YOUR (electoral) teeth. That's what's going to happen here.

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October 15, 2009 3:58 PM   

The Right is getting increasingly upset since MoveOn and other non-Right groups now have such an overwhelming presence, visibility, and ability to mobilize.

MoveOn and Fox News are now essentially counterparts. Hatch and his ilk find this unpleasant, since any potential falsehoods from the GOP are now trivially refuted thanks to the Internet.

The modern world has leveled the playing field of communications, and they can't deal with it.

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October 15, 2009 3:59 PM   

What the hell did Teddy see in this guy?

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October 15, 2009 4:10 PM    in reply to Dorn76

A rube who thought he was getting the better of Teddy. Teddy always walked away with 75% of what he wanted and Hatch felt good about being a speed bump.

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October 15, 2009 4:05 PM   

Take it as an indication that the accusation is dead on target... 1st rule of debate: If you can't debate the point, make a personal attack...

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October 15, 2009 4:06 PM   

We all know Orrin Hatch is a twisted, sick mofo - dripping with hypocrisy. MoveOn and Media Matters are the big obvious targets of the Right. It's amazing how thin-skinned these racist, mysogynist bastards are when they're (finally!) called on the carpet.

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October 15, 2009 4:09 PM   

It's just amazing that the party that wants people to shut up is willing to say anything whatsoever.

Here's how they should re-brand themselves:

http://bit.ly/fxv3G

(satire)

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October 15, 2009 4:13 PM   

I tuned in just as he made the threat. Wow!!! He was steamed! Yes! That MoveOn head just hit nail.

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October 15, 2009 4:19 PM   

Hmmmm...has Hatch ever accepted any money from the Mormon Church which has proven itself to be a right-wing hate group as per California's Prop 8? Just asking since his FOX doll string seems to have been pulled. Could someone please reconfigure these FOX dolls to say something else occasionally? I don't know. Maybe they could take the recording from the Tim Gunn bobble head and install it in all FOX dolls. Then maybe we'd hear "Make it work!" each time they were asked a question instead of this drivel.

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October 15, 2009 4:32 PM   

Hypocrite, thy name us Hatch.
Ever since his unctuous whining about minority Democrats using 'Blue Card' holds on Bush's judicial nominations- after 6 years of the same from Hatch's crew under Clinton- I have felt there could not be a more hypocritical, noxious American politician.
This latest clip is par for the course.
Hatch, your loathing is so well earned.

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October 15, 2009 4:37 PM   

Orrin Hatch hates George Soros because he's a rich guy who supposedly uses his money to help politicians.

Hatch also belongs to the "Money = Free Speech" party.

So why does Orrin Hatch hate freedom?

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October 15, 2009 4:39 PM   

Orrin, Orrin..... You left out the first part of your hyphenated surname.. Isn't it Booby-Hatch.. You miserable morsel of doggie doo doo.... Contempt, you are so far beneath that trigger you old reprobate. You take money from any and all sources, you take it from the health care crappers, from the vitamin companies that your mormon church runs... What you really need is to go on a mission somewhere really remote, perhaps Jupiter or Pluto... There must be some aliens out there who need to find Gawd or Jeezbus or Moroni... Whatever!!!!

Just this old chief's 2 cents

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October 15, 2009 4:47 PM   

Oh Orrin, you wouldn't kick anyone in the teeth - you'd probably drop your purse in the process. We couldn't have that tough guy.

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October 15, 2009 5:18 PM   

Can't kick my teeth. Neener, Neener!

(Moveon member and small $ donor)

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October 15, 2009 5:23 PM   

This guy is really flippin' his wig.
Just a few weeks ago, he was crying about his love for Ted Kennedy. Now it's pure rage!

Kinda sad, really.

Do Senators get mental health care at tax-payer's expense?

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October 15, 2009 5:29 PM   

What really bothers me is this:

The old a-hole doesn't mean he's going to "kick MoveOn in the teeth" literally--he probably means he's going to do it in the sense of having them nickeled-and-dimed by every bureaucracy, law enforcement agency and civil court he can sic on them.

Now, a year or so ago, when the Rs were running everything, and turning every government agency into their own Soviet-style party tool, this might have been a plausible threat. But now, MoveOn is a big campaigner/fundraiser for the majority party.

So the majority party will protect them--if only because it's manifestly in their interest to do so. Right?

Well, I hope so. But given the doormat-lichkeit of the Democratic Party, I can easily envision MoveOn getting the business from Hatch, while the Dems do their famous impression of Kitty Genovese's neighbors--even knowing that next election cycle, they're going to want MoveOn's help.

Stay tuned.

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October 15, 2009 5:33 PM   

The rage and anger of the re=Thugs derives from their feelings of powerlessness. This is a feature of their natural propensity for bullying. When the bully can't push everyone around - they get even angrier. Then in the media the re=Thugs resort to whining in a mass pity-party.

Sucks, doesn't it Hatch?
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October 15, 2009 5:48 PM   

If I were working in any MoveOn office, I'd be keeping a lookout for anybody coming around posing as a pimp and a prostitute.

As for Hatch, he needs to take his meds and be put under observation.

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October 15, 2009 5:52 PM   

If I were working in any MoveOn office, I'd be keeping a lookout for anybody coming around posing as a pimp and a prostitute.

As for Hatch, he needs to take his meds and be put under observation.

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October 15, 2009 5:53 PM   

Pointing out that Hatch receives money from the insurance industry -- which he admits he does -- is a smear? Really?

Another case of projection: Just who is it who is really doing the smearing here? The people saying Hatch receives contributions from big insurance, or the guy who says those same people are "scurrilous" and exist only "to smear good people"?

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October 15, 2009 6:14 PM   

Tea-Baggers eat their own....Does that mean they think for themselves? They aren't lemmings, falling of a cliff? Not drinking the Jim Jones kool-aid? Wow, imagine that, people who don't care about the R or the D, people who would vote for the policy instead.

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October 15, 2009 9:04 PM   

I happened to be at this rally, which was really nothing more than 30-40 friendly people carrying non-offensive signs, with little more than a single microphone and a small amp to make our reasonable requests/concerns heard to whoever was willing to listen (certainly not Senator Hatch). However, the degree of equivocation regarding his campaign contributions (as if it doesn't matter WHO gives him money) and the reactionary threat of violence to come out of his mouth in response would suggest that we hit a sore spot for him. Must be some truth to our claims after all! Thanks again to everyone who helped to make it happen. We might just come knocking on his door again to see if he really will give us the kick in the mouth we apparently deserve for simple telling the truth.

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October 15, 2009 10:48 PM    in reply to agelsing

You needed an amp? LMAO!

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October 16, 2009 8:43 AM   

Funny how Moveon wasnt protesting outside of Queen Hose-Bag pelosi's house when she had a big fundraiser with insurance execs, or when or when mr NoBama had his close door meeting with the same people, or the AIG thingy.

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October 20, 2009 2:58 PM   

America need to move forward – one group continually stands in the way. It’s time for MoveOn to Move Over! The group turned 11 this year, and has repeatedly been the source the drives American politics into the gutter. Stop embarrassing our nation, and move on. http://www.friendsoftheuschamber.com/moveover/

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