Operation Hey Mackey: flashmob protests Whole Foods' CEO in Oakland branch

Feeling conservatives had been winning the limelight in the debate over healthcare reform through a serious of high profile stunts and remarks, advocates of reform decided to steal back some of the media's attention, forming a flash mob Sept. 26 in an Oakland Whole Foods in response to the CEO's recent Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he argued healthcare is not an intrinsic right.
At 6:11 p.m., 35 protesters, who had been fake-shopping the aisles of the green foods giant, convened at the middle of the store, and launched into singing "Hey Mackey, you're a swine," some shouting it into a megaphone and others dancing a choreographed jig as a live orchestra blared from all directions.
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[jonandonie]

I will now shop at whole foods more than ever now. You have the right to earn enough money to buy health care. You do not have the right to free health care.

[Ghettobuster13]

HEALTH CARE HAS NEVER BEEN A RIGHT TO BEGIN WITH..... YOU ARE F UCKING STUPID!!!! Please go shop at Walmart. Whole Foods does not need your money. Or support. The Company is Doubling in Size This Year! LOL

HEALTH CARE, SHELTER, CLOTHES, FOOD, WATER, its all FREE!!!. Just keep all your receipts and bills and send them to any of the half wits involved with this big waste of life flash mob to be reimbursed . Hopefully there sh it diets will rid us of them promptly. Thx For Watching :-)

[gigglefeather801]

This has got to be one of the most wildly illogical things I have ever seen. Ok, so the Whole Foods guy, we can safely say, most likely believes in healing with natural foods and natural remedies...so why would someone who more than likely thinks good health is a result from eating and healing naturally(and has dedicated his life to the cause) think healthcare should be a ''right''? He probably, like most natural health supporters, would rather stay away from doctors anyway...just sayin.

[randarthedolphin]

You think talking with your state representative or lobbying might be a better idea than disrupting honest, blue collar workers ability to earn a living with a ridiculous staged event that can't even be taken seriously?

[Kowsneetch]

Ah yes.Never disagree with Organizing for America, or they will disrupt your ability to make a living . Kind of a Hippie Kristalnacht.

[farsak1953]

love it!

[fordtristan]

Here's what I don't understand. If you support federal disaster relief and most Americans do, then you believe that as a country we should come together and support others in times of unexpected crisis. Isn't someone who has cancer and can't afford health insurance in an unexpected crisis beyond their control? Or should hurricane victims pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

[piewolfe]

Am I seeing RED....? No just COMMUNISM at it's BEST. I don't shop there because the libs love the GMO food sold there. With their right to Gov Health Care they will win the race to the to the grave.

[theBUTCHER1349]

bunch of libtards !!!!!



[William John McCloskey]

I would bet that most of these hippies were beaten up in high school.

[puffpuffshare]

Useful idiots for Obama