In describing why he decided to challenge Rep. Jan Schakowsky this election year, Republican (and Fox News darling) Joel Pollak refers back to an August 31, 2009 health care town hall she held in Skokie. Here he is on Sean Hannity's Fox News program last Friday:

I came back home and saw the same thing happening in my community when Jan Schakowsky suppressed questions outside and inside her own town hall meeting. ... And that clinched my decision to run.  I said, "You know what?  I gotta stand up for people in my community who are just trying to be heard."

While Pollak has widely circulated a video of a health care activist instructing supporters to "block" reform opponents at the Skokie event, there is still a major problem with his narrative: Opposition voices were not actually "suppressed" at the meeting.  To the contrary, there were many critics of the federal reform proposal there and they certainly got a chance to "be heard."

Like Pollak, Progress Illinois was in attendance, with our camera.  Here's a sampling of some of the questions asked by reform opponents.  In one case, you can even hear Schakowsky herself instructing the crowd to "Let him speak."  Watch: