First he quotes Paul Krugman:
“But 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.”
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.” Are these the same people who overwhelmingly elected a black president over GWB?
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?” Hmm, let me see…you mean the left-wing millionaires in Hollywood who have, for decades, lived very wealthy, outlandish lives, yet have funded causes and lobbied for left-wing policies to oppress freedom and lifestyle choices for the struggling middle class and the poor? And the New York and Washington D.C. statist power centers, where the arrogant bastards-in-charge think they should be able to rule over people from rural Michigan to Montana to the Kentucky appalachians? Isn’t that a bit like asking why worms don’t want to be ruled by birds?
Do you see the pattern here? Government overlords and their wealthy media enablers are outraged that anyone should resist their tyranny, their central planning, their ideas, their social laboratory not suitable for rats, and their policies that they will be exempt from. Now, about the persistent claims of “organized protests” (though this is very little of the resistance): why, for years, were left-wing organizations not considered evil for organized disruptions? ACORN, unions, minority groups, the EnviroCommunists?
Amazingly, the soft, little worms, once they realized what is at stake, have come out of the grass to face their predators. (Thanks to Travis for the video.)
