Here’s a crystal-clear illustration of a widespread problem with the far-right wingnuts: fuzzy thinking. Citing a recent article in the New York Times,
Raven screeches:
Hillary? An ordinary average working class American? Hmm. I want her to come to work with me. And do what I do for, oh, say, 16 hours. At the hourly rate I earn. We’ll see how long she claims to be of my class… there is nothing she can do to improve my working conditions either. After all, nursing is nursing and it is what it IS.
How dare she even make such claims? What a lying sack of shit.
Now, go read that NYT article.
Read it carefully.
Is there any evidence in that article that Hillary Clinton has made any claim that she is “an ordinary average working class American”?
Nope. Not one scintilla.
Clinton is trying to resonate with ordinary average working class Americans, certainly. I daresay there hasn’t been a politician who has stood for election on the national stage in the past fifty years who hasn’t done that. There’s nothing unusual or deceptive about that.
But what evidence is there that Clinton actually made the claim that Raven accuses her of having made?
[ insert sound effect: crickets ]
That’s fuzzy thinking. That’s Raven.
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May 9th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Big Dog
Read Raven’s words carefully. Is there any place in there where Raven claims Hillary said that? I believe the people in the article make Hillary seem like “one of us” and a “good ole girl.”
I can’t speak for Raven but I think her response is to the people who make Clinton out to be one of the regular folks.
Regardless, Raven did not say, in any way, shape, or form, that Hillary made such a claim….
I hear those crickets again.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
meatbrain
Dogmeat is lying again:
(Emphasis mine)
Reading for comprehension is not Dogmeat’s strong suit.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Big Dog
It does look like Raven indeed said that. I was incorrect and read right over that. Lying, no just mistaken.
This paragraph implies that the claim is made by action:
Somehow, a woman who has not regularly filled her own gasoline tank in well over a decade, who with her husband made $109 million in the last eight years and who vacations with Oscar de la Renta, has transformed herself into a working-class hero.
In promoting herself as a champion of ordinary Americans in a troubled economy, Mrs. Clinton has also tried to cast her rival, Senator Barack Obama, as an out-of-touch elitist. She has made her case at all the right stops (an auto-racing hall of fame) and used all the right props (lately delivering speeches from pickup beds).
However, I certainly missed that one sentence. Thanks for pointing it out.