A Seriously Skewed Worldview Is Not Just A Series of Gaffes
June 11, 2010
The press is primarily obsessed with appearance, with politicians’ performance as opposed to the views they actually hold. Often they confuse crazytown viewpoints with errors of performance–or conflate the two. And that can be dangerous, as journalists fail to get to the bottom of radical political philosophies like that of Rand Paul or newly-minted GOP candidate Sharron Angle. Jonathan Chait explains:
To the political journalist, a gaffe is any impolitic statement. But, of course, Sharron Angle hasn’t committed “rhetorical screw-ups.” She has made numerous expressions of a lunatic worldview.
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