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Authors, sign in!If you get an opportunity, go to National Public Radio and listen to the Fresh Air segment that Terry Gross did yesterday with David Weigel of the Washington Independent blog.
Interesting information, and another tool for those of us keeping an eye on the right, and especially fringe elements. When Terry asked Weigel if he was concerned about giving too much press coverage to fringe crazies, Weigel said that the importance of his work was tracking which of the crazies' ideas escaped and made it into the mainstream dialog of the right. That's where the real dangers are. That's how the Birther stuff got started and how it morphed into something more than a rant by a handful of nutballs. But Weigel insists that if people listening to these weird arguments get an idea of how the ideas were generated in the first place--and who ginned them up--then maybe they'd start asking tough questions.
Ask different questions.
Published September 24, 2009 by Will Corsair |
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