The Blind for Reform

Taste the delicious irony as you watch this video. The organizers don't really seem to get what's going on until they walk into the punchline:

"So you're controlling the message?"

Several things are going on, though I feel that I am insulting my reader's intelligence by pointing them out. Well, except yourself, then, and consider the explanation for those who are coming here for the first time and don't know any better.

• Obviously, the people who are rallying in support of Obama's health initiative do not make their own signs, or even look at them, or if they do, they don't understand them. I wonder how much they are getting paid.
• Part of fascism is controlling the message, controlling the media, and ultimately controlling what people are allowed to say, what they are allowed to think. The organizers are simultaneously claiming that their movement is not fascist, while simultaneously doing all of the above.
• To their credit (I must give them credit for this) they did not violently assault the prankster or the cameraman, which is something we've seen from this thugocracy before. Maybe they didn't get the joke, or if they did, they took it in good spirits. So, maybe there is some hope for these people, after all.