{"id":673,"date":"2008-05-16T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=673"},"modified":"2008-05-16T09:21:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T13:21:52","slug":"so-let-me-get-this-straight-im-inferior-to-these-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"So, Let Me Get This Straight: I’m Inferior<\/i> To These People?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThey prefer Americans, not Muslims: W. Virginians Tracy and Janet <\/em><\/p>\n

The Real News Network<\/em><\/a> (Motto: “The Future Depends On Knowing”) describes itself as “a television news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism.”<\/p>\n

So, it was fitting, a little before this past Tuesday, that TRNN journalist Matthew Palevsky went down to West Virginia to cover what this traditionally blue collar, Democratic-voting bloc was saying about the then upcoming primary. (Huffington Post<\/em><\/a> linked to this video, but TRNN<\/em>‘s own page<\/a> contains a transcript to the video, part of which is reproduced below.)<\/p>\n

As we now know and expected, Hillary Clinton won West Virginia handily; The New York Times<\/em> called her victory “lopsided,”<\/a> noting that this was “a primary where racial considerations emerged as an unusually salient factor.” In other words, water is wet.<\/p>\n

TRACY, CLINTON SUPPORTER: My opinion is I think the United States of America should be run by somebody from the United States of America.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: But he’s from the US. He’s born here. He’s been raised here.<\/p>\n

TRACY: And he’s Muslim.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: But why do you think he’s Muslim? He wasn’t raised Muslim.<\/p>\n

TRACY: But I don’t agree with that.<\/p>\n

JANET: You feel like there’s a lie behind it.<\/p>\n

TRACY: Yeah, I don’t agree with that.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: Do you think that’s a smear tactic in politics, to label him as a Muslim?<\/p>\n

TRACY: I think it is a smear tactic.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: I mean, but\u2014.<\/p>\n

JANET: Do you?<\/p>\n

TRACY: Yeah, I do think it’s a smear tactic, but I think we have the right to know. I mean, I think we have the right to know everything in their background.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Palevsky speaks to other West Virginians, then comes back to the two women.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: Will you get behind Obama if he does win the nomination?<\/p>\n

TRACY: No.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: Why not?<\/p>\n

TRACY: No. I’ll go Republican.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: You would vote for McCain.<\/p>\n

TRACY: Yeah.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: And why? Why that decision for you?<\/p>\n

TRACY: I just\u2014I just don’t agree. That’s\u2014I’ll just leave it at that. I just don’t agree that he should be president of the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At one point in the piece, Palevsky speaks to a Black West Virginian named Brenda.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: So whom would you vote for today?<\/p>\n

BRENDA, OBAMA SUPPORTER: Obama.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: Why Obama?<\/p>\n

BRENDA: ‘Cause we need a change.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: And what do you think he’ll provide for the country?<\/p>\n

BRENDA: A better world.<\/p>\n

PALEVSKY: And do you think West Virginia will come out for Obama when it comes to the general?<\/p>\n

BRENDA: No. There’s too many rednecks here in West Virginia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Water. Wet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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