NPR Has the Answers
Mr. Kai Wright, senior writier for Root.com, unchallenged by the banal and thoroughly predictable NPR host Guy Raz, has exposed the true motivations behind the health care debate.
Mr. KAI WRIGHT (Senior Writer, The Root): We're seeing the manifestations of an anxiety amongst poor and working class white folks about what is my place in a vastly changing culture and a vastly changing economy. Those are real and meaningful anxieties, and we're seeing a group of folks trying to exploit those anxieties.So there you have it. NPR's conspiracy among conspiracy theorists trumps the garden variety conspiracy theories of the birthers (oddly unmentioned is the fact that this movement was the brainchild of the Hillary Clinton campaign,) Timothy McVeigh types, and the rest of us poor and uneducated white folks driven into a frenzy by the evil puppeteers at Fox News and inside the GOP.
The fear of Barack Obama not being a citizen, to these notions that people would have to stand in front of a death panel and defend their right to live. We've seen a handful of folks, both in corporate media and the Republican Party try to elevate those ideas in effort to exploit those anxieties.
RAZ: It's almost impossible to sort of do an empirical study on, you know, on who is going to the meetings, who is expressing anger. How can you be sure that most or many of the demonstrators are poor or working class?
Mr. WRIGHT: Well, you can't. What we do know, and there has been some reporting on this on where the ideas are coming from. And they do seem to be coming from the militia movement. When you trace some of who the leaders are, particularly amongst the Birthers, they're folks who have a history in the militia movement.
Where else could you possibly get that kind of hard hitting analysis?
Pop a Dramamine and head on over to NPR for the whole thing.
2 comments:
When you trace some of who the leaders are...
I find it interesting that to Mr. Wright it is useful to trace the political background and associations of these "leaders", whoever THEY are.
Aren't these the same folks who dismissed the tracing of Obama's political background and associations as irrelevant old history that means absolutely nothing in terms of trying to figure out what the man believes and stands for.
Absolutely correct.
Pay no attention to Frank Marshall Davis, or Jeremiah Wright, or Saul Alinsky, or William Ayers. The important thing to remember is that the town hall meetings were filled with anxious poor white trash at the behest of the militia movement and Fox News.
This is what NPR poses as news analysis these days.
I listen to this crap so no one else has to.
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