it all the time. i see welfare queens and food stamp talk. it s the same ol it s not even code. it s direct. my thought. yours? it s pretty direct. no, you re right here, chris, and i m glad that we can move beyond this ad. this ad has been debunked this ad has been debunked across the board. joe scarborough came against the ads as being inaccurate. why are they used? there are racial codes inherent about public assistance and welfare. we can talk about the history of welfare queens and the ways in which welfare has been racialized historically. once we realize they re not accurate, we have to conclude that the romney campaign has a sinister strategy here about welfare and public assistance being only used and exploited and fraudulently used sometimes by people of color. you know, sam, i remember during the primary campaign it got heated, and i enjoyed it. it got so heated for a while there. people said obama was the food
he may have gotten past that and said i like the guy personally, but in this ad he s out there screwing up the system and letting welfare cheats making it easier for themselves. so i have to vote against this guy. sam is right. he s references michael tesler s study, and i don t know the republicans don t like science so much. but it s a statistically important study to think about the larger problem. bottom line is these things appeal to people these ads appeal to people more conservative racially who are working class white males, but we have to also remember that if this works for a lot of different issues that don t have the same kind of history as welfare. things like welfare and things like cap and trade are racialized in the political environment we re in. the mney campaign is sacrificing the public good of our politics for the short-term advantage of getting these two percentage points.
i believe in evolution, but i also believe when i hike the grand canyon and see it at sunset that the hand of god is there also. that sounds right to me. brown back, huck key and tancredo don t believe in evolution. there s a couple things going on here. obviously business types think if they accept the fact there s a man kind influence on climate changes and they have to change laws and deal with that. it will hurt their freedom in the marketplace, right? there s the other thing about the religious front, and you and i were trained in the bible. we learned it was part of the moral lesson as children so powerful in our lives, but the scientific nature. we always said, yes, but there s important stories in the bible, but there s also science and archaeological fact to deal with and the history of the dinosaurs. that all occurred as well. these new people politically are saying no, no, no. all the answers are in the bible. we politicians have to say so. we have to deny the history of
of thought? it s a mystery. it s generally agreed, but what you believe as a kid sticks with you your whole life. i would say in general these people got misperceptions when they were young, and it s still with them. that wouldn t matter except we have climate change. we have 7 billion people living in what s proven to be a pretty small planet, so being anti-science at this point in history is very serious for all humankind, and, of course, it s very serious for us as citizens of the u.s. who have this expectation that we will be leaders in science and technology. what i really encourage you guys i m just asking you in the media to ask these people running for president and vice president, ask them directly about climate change. ask them directly about science. ask them directly about evolution, rather than just getting the sound bites, which are very compelling and creepy,
here. they make him the good guy and obama the bad guy. i see race here, and i don t see it all the time. i see welfare queens and food stamp talk. it s the same oel it s not even code. it s direct. my thought. yours? it s pretty direct. no, you re right here, chris, and i m glad that we can move beyond this ad. this ad has been debunked aacross the board. joe stcarborough came against te ads as being inaccurate. why are they used? there are racial codes inherent about public assistance and welfare. we can talk about the history of welfare queens and the ways in which welfare has been racialized historically. once we realize they re not accurate, we have to conclude that the romney campaign has a sinister strategy here about welfare and public assistance being only used and exploited and fraudulently used sometimes by people of color. you know, sam, i remember