"Kill The Bill"

Over at AMERICAblog, they have a video up produced by New Left Media. These two guys have been attending the various Tea Party rallies since they started, and they are very unassuming and simply interview individuals and ask them questions about why they are there.

The videos are hysterical in their showing of the stupidity of the people participating at these rallies. They talk in sound bites they hear from television. In fact, most claim they don't know what's in the health care bill, they just know what they heard on Fox News, and they don't like what they heard!

One young lady when asked about what she didn't like about the bill said "the part about where they give you the little blue pill and send you on your merry way to die rather than pay for your end of like treatment and the like." (I'm paraphrasing from memory). When she was asked where in the bill there was the reference to the little blue pill, she paused, and deadpanned that she was blonde! Ha ha.

Another woman, informing the interviewer she was 67, said she didn't like the socialization of medicine and the death panels. Again, when asked what specific provision of the bill she was against, admitted that she hadn't read the bill and didn't know where the provision was, but she heard it on Fox News and that was good enough for her.

The point of all these videos is that the Tea Party protesters have absolutely no clue what they are screaming and yelling about. They have been lied to consistently by the men and women over at Fox News, and have been told to go to these rallies to protest the socialization of American health care, and so they do. None of them have read the bill, and as some have said, they don't want to read the bill. If Fox News tells them a provision is going to do this or that, then they believe it without question, and hence, are against any reform.



UPDATE 3/20/10: Digby says essentially the same thing:

The modern conservative movement propaganda holds that government is the problem not the solution. The corollary is that is you have a problem, government must be the cause. You are short of money? It must be because of taxes. People don't have health care? It must be because the government is running it. Crime? Big government. Lack of jobs? Government.

This isn't about issues, it's about a delusional worldview formed by people who listen to a bunch of hucksters who have successfully looted the country while persuading about half the people that the government was doing the looting and giving it in the form of "handouts" to people who didn't deserve it. It's a great scam and a lot of people have made a lot of money promoting it.

It's a shame that these same people are getting screwed six ways to Sunday, but I'm getting less and less sympathetic as I see them throwing dollar bills into the faces of disabled citizens and telling them go somewhere else looking for a handout. These aren't just misguided souls. They are cruel jerks.