Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Sirota on the Fox Incentive

David Sirota offers his insight on the Fox News incentive to town hall bullies.

Here's a sample:

What this does is create a vicious cycle whereby the small group of conservative activists who are terrorizing these town halls have an incentive to be more and more aggressive. They know that if they can go further than the last supposed martyr, they might get their mug on Fox News. And so from protestors trying to shut down town hall meetings with screaming we get protestors shoving matches and then protestors arming themselves and then protestors making death threats. This is the Fox News Incentive System at work.