Rush-ing To Judgement: National commentators don't understand Detroit's plight

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From the Detroit News,

http://www.detnews.com/article/20091011/OPINION03/910110312/Rush-ing-to-judgment--National-commentators-don-t-understand-Detroit-s-plight

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How did this woman's anticipation and excitement become a trigger for ridicule? For contempt and loathing?

From that brief exchange, Limbaugh extracted a wealth of knowledge about this anonymous woman. He went on to describe her as "dumb, uninformed, shockingly, saddeningly stupid, the model citizen for Barack Obama."

The truth is that her answer wasn't stupid: She believed she had a chance to qualify for assistance from the federal government. She received an application.

But she said, "Obama money," a phrase that he uses to then disparage the entire mass of people in attendance, people he assumes lack all good qualities, from work ethic to intelligence to education. Those are qualities he and his audience apparently share automatically, by virtue of their enjoying of his program and their shared ability to sneer at desperation.

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1. The line forming was intentional. The "intertubes" exist for such things.