re: #289 Sleepyone

If anything the media will use the crazies in attendance to paint conservatives as extreme.

Regarding the videos in question: they suggest a small town dynamic - everyone knows everyone else (see some of her other videos.) The videographer is no more a “plant” than anyone else who would choose to show up from that small town (unless you’re suggesting anyone who wouldn’t agree with that group automatically becomes a “plant”.) If the organizer and her don’t get along - well, that is true in any small community; not everyone will get along with everyone else. So the young woman is making fun of those she disagrees with in her community. In this case I would encourage her to continue as those people in the video need to be confronted.

More important is your contention that the “media” will try to paint conservatives as extreme. Here is where many of Charles’ critics have missed the point - the so called painting will stick because so many of those who self identify as conservative are refusing to call out and ostracize the likes of Beck or those three people shown in those videos from OH.