When I attended Michele Bachmann’s impromptu rally against Pelosi’s health-care bill last week, I met a lot of just-plain-good folks. Media accounts ignored them in favor of a sprinkling of offensive signs, although the Huffington Post wasn’t able to muster even 12 offensive signs from the rally of more than 10K. At times, coverage suggested the animating emotion of every attendee was “hatred.” Irresponsible commentators multiplied offensive signs to fit their narrative-in Paul Krugman’s hands, one documented Holocaust sign at the rally became “large signs showing piles of bodies.” If one cared to be fair to the attendees, however, it was easy to find a stream of kind, determined, involved, ordinary Americans. And, occasionally, a truly extraordinary one.
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