Yes To Puppets

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Matt Osborne

I’m with Digby in her analysis of right-wing dominance in the health care debate:

This is, btw, why people make those stupid puppets for the big marches. If you aren’t willing to bring on the Nazi imagery, it’s the only way you can get the damned media to show any pictures of the crowd. It’s sad but true.

The puppeteers were targeted with arrest in Seattle. That sort of idiocy is why you’ve had riots at WTO meetings ever since. And yes, the European continent gets this right more often than we do:

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  • http://www.facebook.com/WayneNix Wayne Nix

    The right is very good at creating and controlling the narrative. In the 60's the left and the civil rights marchers were good at it. In fact they created a lot of the standard imagery and publicity tools that the right uses today. Remember Pigasus?

    Today progressives just react to what the right does. I got an email today asking me to join a Coffee Party movement. Coffee party? That name just reinforces the teabagger imagery without really countering or opposing it.

    The pro-heathcare people (it's sad that they don't even have a nickname) should do something weird, like have a progressive minister exorcise the demons out of the CEOs of Anthem and BCBS. Or maybe have a hospital bed race in front of the Lincoln memorial. Something, anything, would be better than just having a march.

  • http://www.osborneink.com OsborneInk

    Coffee parties are a late attempt to meet the teabagging with local organizing. It should have happened a year ago.