The Truth vs. the Fabrication: Town Hall Debates, Staging, and the Effect on Healthcare Reform.
Comedian turned cultural guru/current events pundit, John Stewart (recently voted in a Time Magazine poll as the most trusted News Personality in America), in 2006 said on his nightly television show, “The world is run by extremists because moderates have (expletive) to do.” There is a sense in which that is true. There are not a lot of moderates hanging out at town hall meetings, and those that are can be easily swayed into the fray with a couple of well placed phrases from highly paid lobbyists posing as the “trustworthy looking older gentleman/lady” from “down the street”. The phrase “one bad apple spoils the bunch” is well known among crowd control experts. In fact, experts have known for a very long time that a few people in the right place can change the mood of an entire room. When Frank Sinatra first took to the stage, his handlers used crowd control technique to create a name for their rising star. They hired half a dozen girls to swoon in the front rows. Due to the miracle of crowd manipulation, while half a dozen girls swooned for pay, dozens more followed suit, some even to the point of fainting upon receiving a wink from the blue eyed crooner. The truth of the healthcare debate in town hall meetin
The people that manipulate crowds are smart. They don’t stand up and scream that Barrack Obama is the devil. That would result in discrediting them and thereby their viewpoint. Instead, these puppeteers will say something that the crowd can agree with, such as “Hitler promised healthcare to everyone too and there is no way I want Hitler’s SS looking after the well being of my child”. Local yokels who see the world in black and white respond to that sort of stimulation like moths to light. Before you know it, the town hall turns from a discussion about the benefits of socializing healthcare to a debate and even full-fledged argument about totalitarian government deciding who lives and who dies on the basis of how well they fit into the collective. Once the anti-healthcare reform lobby manages to disrupt a few well publicized town hall meetings, the news media begins to do stories on how the healthcare bill is coming apart at the seams because “people all across America” are fired up about healthcare. The truth is that most of the town halls taking place are happening without incident. Most people agree that no one should have to lose their home over an insurance coverage that is less than insuring. Nobody thinks it’s a good thing to let 50 million Americans, largely women and children, live with
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