Video: Rep. Baron Hill (D-IN): Town Hall protesters are “political terrorists”

Posted August 12th, 2009 under Headlines Tags: baron hill, health care reform, protest, terrorism, town hall

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Indiana Congressman Baron Hill is on the hot seat in the health care reform debate.

Hill is a leader of the so-called Blue Dog Democrats, Moderates and Conservatives who recently won a health care compromise.

But, his criticism of health care opponents has Republicans demanding an apology.

Hill traveled outside his southern Indiana district to address the Indianapolis Rotary Club Tuesday where he made no effort to avoid controversy, criticizing the health care reform opponents who disrupt town hall meetings.

“They have only one purpose in mind and that’s to blow up the meetings that are being held and that serves no one, ladies and gentlemen,” said Hill.

Hill recently called them political terrorists, a term he avoided in his speech but not in a 24-Hour News 8 interview.

“If you just want to blow up a meeting that’s a political terrorist,” said Hill.