The Radical Left: Pelosi, Krugman and Matthews Are Wrong
• Economic Policy JournalOne further point that came out of the left wing panel discussion here at tht ASA conference in San Francisco was that to a man Steve Kest, executive director of ACORN, George Goehl of the National People's Action Network, Gabe Gonzales of the Center for Community Change and Matt Hammer of the People Acting in Community were not buying into the claims that the protests going on against the healthcare plan were staged or because Obama is black. None of them believe Nancy Pelosi's claim that the protests are orchestrated. None of them buy into Krugman's statement that ..they’re probably reacting less to what Mr. Obama is doing, or even to what they’ve heard about what he’s doing, than to who he is. That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that’s behind the “birther” movement, which denies Mr. Obama’s citizenship. Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the sa