Why Did It Take Two Weeks To Discover Parkland Students’ Astroturfing?
3rd March 2018
What’s striking about all this isn’t the organization. If you start reading books about organizing, it’s clear how it all works. But no journalist covering the story wrote about this stuff for two weeks. Instead, every story was about the Parkland kids being magically effective.
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The real tip-off should have been the $500,000 donations from Winfrey and Clooney. Big celebrities don’t give huge money to strangers on a whim. Somebody who knows Winfrey and Clooney called them and asked. But the press’s response was to be ever more impressed with the kids.
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But it’s not just a mainstream media problem. None of the righty outlets writing about Parkland picked up on the clear evidence that professional organizers were backing the Parkland kids, either. Instead, they objected to the front-and-centering of minor kids as unseemly, which does no good: Lefties aren’t going to listen, and it doesn’t educate the Right to counter.
In other words, this was a carefully calculated and professionally run campaign to look like ‘spontaneous uprising by the oppressed’, the very thing that Lefty functionaries spend their lives doing. It’s no accident that Barack Obama’s first job out of school was ‘community organizer’.