Palin-Tards on parade

[pureaudio]

Says the guy from Redding. Well, they story I was telling was about younger kids who were too scared and close minded to go live abroad for a
year or two. I didnt say everyone in the military was like that did I? Where did I say that traveling equated to intelligence? I'm just saying most Americans dont have a clue about the rest of the world and that creates some ignorance. Sorry if your idea of travel is resorts and tourist traps, sounds lame. Thanks for the family back ground too, it made the difference in your post.

There is a lot I could say but I think you make yourself look like an idiot just fine on your own.

[blunttech]

You didn't watch the video, didja?

The interviewer wasn't leading people into stupid comments. The sheer idiocy of their volunteered responses-their picture of reality- was unbelievable. You'd know that if you watched it.

I personally think the American population as a whole is getting more and more complacent and the level of intelligence is declining. Smart people don't have enough kids but the ignorant trailer park trash spawn legions of similarly stupid children. Soon, ignorant is the new normal, like fat is now.

It's not a "lefty" or "righty" issue. It's a fucking disaster for all of us.

I dont agree with you on hardly anything but this is right on the money

[joshh]

There are complete idiots on both sides of the isle. But I will say that I'd rather her be president than Obama.

[SamE30e]

Ohhhhhh Cannnnada!!!

[shiftbmw]

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
-Winston Churchill

My favorite Churchill quote. Has been in my sig for as long as I can remember. And so true.

[Justin B]

I didnt read this thread. At all. But I'm trying to make it through this 8-something minutes and I'm progressively becoming more retarded.

[mar1t1me]

I've seen the vid.

Lefty film maker only included responses that fit his agenda and left out those that didn't.

Would you call that responsible journalism?

Like I said, MM wannabe.

You're kidding, right? MM is highly confrontational and makes it a point to phrase questions in ways that make him look like he's done a bunch of research and is light years smarter than his subject. In other words, no matter what the subject says, they will look bad. Agenda or no, I really didn't see anything remotely like MM's style going on there. All the guy says is basically "why do you like her?" "What specific policies of hers do you like"? Then he let them dig their own holes. MM digs the hole, leads you to it and shoves you in.

As a citizen of this country, I'd really like to believe that the majority of people in that line were eloquent and well-versed, or at least vaguely aware regarding the favored policies of Palin. But you and I both know that isn't very likely.

BTW, I tracked the source of that video to a couple of college students in Ohio. Here's what they said about the video:

THERE ARE UNINFORMED OBAMA SUPPORTERS, TOO
It has been said in comments that we would find similarly talking point-driven, substance-less supporters at an Obama rally, and we agree. But no politician has emerged on the national stage as undefined and unqualified as Sarah Palin, and her public persona--which is anti-intellectual by definition--discourages substance. Instead, we get winking. One could hardly imagine her giving a complex speech about race in America, or speaking eloquently about our country’s relations with Islam. Not just because she couldn’t write such a speech (Obama has speech-writers, of course) but because she wouldn’t--such necessarily academic discussion is antithetical to the persona she’s created for herself and that her supporters have come to love.
CHERRY-PICKING
As for accusations of cherry picking, which are commonly thrown at interview-based videos, it simply isn’t what we did. We interviewed only a few more people than ended up in the video, not hundreds, and what was cut was done for time purposes. The people were selected at random--some offered to be interviewed--and we were only there for 90 mins (it gets dark early and fast in Ohio right now). What didn’t make it into the video was just more footage of people talking about taxes/spending, drilling, and abortion, and we constructed blocks in the piece to represent those issues. Of course the piece was edited to be entertaining (this is YouTube, after all, where the currency is cat videos) but we don’t believe we misrepresented the attitudes of the people at that signing in any way.