Of course, this gem came out last week. I saw it on Real Time (Maher's Show) and then on many blogs, so I thought; why bother?
But this week, Pelosii (Nancy's daughter, and a fine documentary film maker) felt the need to give equal time to some of the locals from her neck of the woods, so to speak, and interviewed people waiting in line at a welfare office in New York City. As the Pace picante sauce folks used to un-ironically intone "Get a Rope"
That sentence alone should sum up what is wrong about the follow up video she aired this week. She went to great pains last week to point out that these toothless confederates, were a random sample, she did not go anywhere special to seek them out (like a welfare office maybe?) and polling done later that week confirmed that these people's views are widely held in the area (53% of Mississippi repubs DO think Obama is a Muslim ..for instance).
The point of the first video was exemplified in her questions about why poor people vote against their best interests (Mississippi being demonstrably the poorest state in the nation). What then was the point of interviewing people waiting in line at a welfare office? According to Pelosi, in her interview on Real Time, it was to show the problems with "the entitlement system".
How is this a counterpoint to the above video? I am not really sure, unless the real point is to show that poverty, hatred and ignorance run hand in hand......I believe this video explains that idea a little better:
(Sorry, it won't allow me to embed, but watch it, ..... a story about a mule)
"An old man that was just so full of hate that he didn't know being poor was what was killing him"
- Gene Hackman "Mississippi Burning"
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