Arlen Specter, Kathleen Sebelius meet tea party/GOP braintrust, massive intellectualism ensues

I recently posted Tea partiers meet Rep. Lloyd Doggett; grown-up high-level debate, intellectualism ensue about loons from the tea parties chanting like ACORN at that Rep.'s appearance rather than trying to engage him in debate in order to show how he's wrong (see question authority). Something similar happened recently involving an appearance to promote Obama healthcare by Arlen Specter and Kathleen Sebelius, and it might be even dumber because they lost an opportunity to put two nationally-known politicians on the spot (video link).

The first thirty seconds features someone going through the long intro to his question, then he spends ten seconds asking a generic question about politicians reading bills. When Sebelius doesn't give the answer the crowd want, they begin shouting and booing. What should have happened is he should have used his full forty seconds to ask a detailed question about some specific flaw in Obama's plan with the intent of boxing Sebelius in and even stumping her. Now, that would have made a great video and have been a great public service. Instead, the tea parties/GOP/FreedomWorks types can't figure that out.

Tue, 08/04/2009 - 20:55 · · Importance: 4