Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Radical Left: Pelosi, Krugman and Matthews Are Wrong

One further point that came out of the left wing panel discussion here at tht ASA conference in San Francisco was that to a man, Steve Kest, executive director of ACORN, George Goehl of the National People's Action Network, Gabe Gonzales of the Center for Community Change and Matt Hammer of the People Acting in Community, were not buying into the claims that the protests going on against the healthcare plan were staged or because Obama is black.

None of them believe Nancy Pelosi's claim that the protests are orchestrated.

None of them buy into Krugman's statement that
...they’re probably reacting less to what Mr. Obama is doing, or even to what they’ve heard about what he’s doing, than to who he is.

That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that’s behind the “birther” movement, which denies Mr. Obama’s citizenship. Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the same; we don’t know how many of the protesters are birthers, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s a substantial fraction
None of them buy into Chris Matthews attempt at throwing out the race card (Transcribed comments via Karen DeCoster):


Matthews asks: If we strapped them all into gurneys and injected them with sodium pentothal, how many would say they don’t like the idea of a black president?

The guest from The Atlanta Journal Constitution replies, “Oh, I’m just guessing, this is just off the cuff. I’d guess 45 – 65% of the people who appear at these groups are people who will never be comfortable with a black president.”

Then Chris Matthews says, “How many of these people are just culturally in love with the idea of far right, anti-big city, anti-Hollywood, anti-New York, anti-Washington personage?”

Keep in mind that Kest, Goehl and Gonzales are hardcore radicals. Kest and Goehl are talking about future militant action. They know an orchestrated even when they see one. They know what's behind anger when they see it. They are always trying to drill into that anger. So what do these professional people manipulators think about the protests?

Goehl came right out and said the protesters were real and not orchestrated and that the anger was real. There was no objection from Kest on this point or any of the others.

Gonzales added that people were angry because they thought they were being ripped off by banks and billionaires. He said that started the anger which transferred into anger over the healthcare plan. No objections from Kest or any of the others.

Remember, this panel was talking to a very friendly crowd and obviously, it's clear from their other comments, they were letting their hair down and telling it like it is. And in this hardcore setting, nobody played the race card and nobody called the protests staged, you could see it in their faces, they knew it was real. And more than anything, they were trying to find a way for the left to tap into that anger.

They weren't for a minute buying into the Pelosi, Krugman and Matthews propaganda.

5 comments:

  1. From many years in Alinsky groups, I think this analysis of professional organizaers is probably correct.

    I think Obama/Emmanuel/Axelare are also professionals. They are developing Plan A, Plan B, Plan C right now.

    One of those plans will be Wag-The-Dog... find some new crisis (real or manufactured) to take attention away from this opposition. The Harvard Gates thing was the teachable moment. All they need to do is find some individual who does something stupid (which happens every day) and have a month of OJ, or Britney Spears or Abducted in the Carribean.

    Another Plan X is to personalize the enemy. They've discovered that Rush is too big to fight. They will pick on a Michael Savage or someone who practices shock-jock on talkradio. Or maybe some Republican/Conservative governor, senator or leader will say something stupid they can milk for a month.

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  2. What happens if someone at this conference reads EPJ? Are you going to be like Tom Cruise when he crashed the dress-up party in Eyes Wide Shut?

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  3. Being evil and wrong-headed doesn't make them stupid. If they could get the left this fired up, ObamaCare would've already passed with single payer as the main ingredient! Fortunately for us, we outnumber them by a large margin, and the election of Mr. Obama has tipped their hand. Conservatives are now aware of Alinsky's rules and what community organizing entails. If trends continue, we may someday get our Republic back.

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  4. Machiavelli wrote:

    "And men are so naive, and so much dominated by immediate needs, that a skillful deceiver always finds plenty of people who will let themselves be deceived."

    Regardless of how insiders' assess the truth or otherwise of the words of Pelosi, Krugman and Matthews, one should be on guard that the weaving of new deceptions has begun.

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  5. Machiavelli wrote:

    "And men are so naive, and so much dominated by immediate needs, that a skillful deceiver always finds plenty of people who will let themselves be deceived."

    Regardless of how insiders' assess the truth or otherwise of the words of Pelosi, Krugman and Matthews, one should be on guard that the weaving of new deceptions has begun.

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