n Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If the parties don't arrange to put their protesters at each others' > > conventions, you're left with a lot of career protesters who are as > > predictable as the pols inside the hall. > > Of course the career protestors will be there -- that's when the role > of a journalist being able to differentiate between a shill and > someone with a legitimate grievance comes into play. I'm certain there > are birthers and related whack-jobs outside the DNC, but I'm also sure > there is an unemployed father of four whose wife has cancer and wants > to know what happened to all the promises Obama made to him and others > like him. But they have no voice at these conventions. Nobody who will > speak for them; nobody willing to speak truth to power. (SNIP) > Well, maybe unemployed people have a gripe with this President (though I think President Clinton had the perfect response to that last night), but people with serious health problems for the most part can only be grateful - perhaps their only gripe might be that some of the provisions of the ACA have taken a few years to get implemented. There were some real Occupy-type protests, a lot of it (IMO) valid, in advance of the convention, and I read substantial coverage of it. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
