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Redstate…
Mitt
Romney’s Remarks are Another
Chick-Fil-A Moment
By Erick Erickson
September 19th, 2012
Just
a few months ago, Dan Cathy of
Chick-Fil-A, gave an interview to a Christian publication that asked
him about
the Chick-Fil-A Foundation’s support of marriage. Cathy defending his
position
and spoke about his family’s faith. CNN.com picked it up and ran a
story that
Cathy had come out against gay marriage.
In
fact, Cathy hadn’t been asked
directly about gay marriage, but it was implicit in what he said. The
CNN.com
story swirled around the internet. Leftwingers and media mouthpieces
across the
country condemned Chick-Fil-A for serving bigotry on a bun. Suddenly
the most
controversial thing in America was two buttered buns and a pickle.
Mayors were
demanding Chick-Fil-A not come to their cities. Liberals were screaming
about
intolerance and bigotry.
Then
Mike Huckabee and others
declared a Chick-Fil-A Day. On the appointed day, lines of cars
stretched
around city blocks. Lines of people stretched across parking lots.
Turns out a
lot of people agreed with Dan Cathy. But it also turned out a lot of
people who
did not agree, but were not offended and showed up to support
Chick-Fil-A.
A
counter protest was held — a so
called “kiss in.” Few people showed up.
The
Chick-Fil-A controversy
animated a whole lot of people. It just turned out that the people it
most
animated were the people who agreed with Dan Cathy.
So
it is, I think, with Mitt
Romney’s comments. I think the media and the left have badly misread
the
American mood on this. On CNN yesterday, I spent a fair amount of time
with
Kate Bolduan and Joe Johns, two of my favorite people. They kept
focusing on
Mitt Romney’s characterization of the word “victims.”
What
I explained to them and what I
think the media misses is that many of the people the media would claim
Mitt
Romney described as “victims’ weren’t who Mitt Romney was speaking
about. And
those people intrinsically know it. They may technically fall into the
category
Mitt Romney described as government dependent victims, but they know
he’s not
talking about them. He’s talking about the people they also are talking
about…
Read
the rest of the article at
Redstate
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