Juan Williams baffles me.
There are times he seems to have his head on straight, then there are other times he says things like this:
WILLIAMS: Look, I think this is, and as far as the Missouri vote, you get 70 percent inside an echo chamber of older white people, no not in St. Louis not in Kansas City, saying, “Oh yeah, we don’t like a requirement that everybody has to have healthcare even though the hospitals in Missouri say it’s gonna drive up our costs, everyone is just going to run to the emergency rooms when they have their accidents.”
Here’s the video:
Um, do I count as an older white person? I know I qualify for half that statement, but older? I’m not even 40 yet and I voted for it.
And an echo chamber? The state nearly went for Obama this election. It’s not like Missouri is a solidly red state.
Van Helsing has a great point when he writes:
It would be worth it for someone to get on the air and sneer that a left-wing initiative doesn’t count because only black people voted for it, just to see all the establishment pundits’ heads explode.
Consider that for a second, because that’s essentially what Williams did, only he used white folks.
I guess if we wanted, we could say that the election in 2008 doesn’t matter because so many Republicans didn’t vote. Or any vote in the future that doesn’t go our way we can just dismiss because not enough folks on our side voted for it. It’s not that it’s what the people really want, but that the people who really do want it didn’t vote for it.
That makes sense, right?
Not really. Like Chris Wallace rebuts, “That’s their fault, isn’t it?”
