Monday, December 26, 2011

Kathleen Parker Uses Recent Gallup Poll to Minimize American's Concerns Over Income Inequality | Video Cafe

Kathleen Parker Uses Recent Gallup Poll to Minimize American's Concerns Over Income Inequality Video Cafe

On this Sunday's Meet the Press, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker thought that a recent poll by Gallup was very "interesting" and something to watch, which naturally fed right into the meme that our beltway Villagers love to espouse, which is that Americans really aren't that concerned about income disparity and have bought into that talking point we constantly hear out of the right wing, that "big government" is the source of all of our problems and something to be more concerned about, rather than whether CEO pay is out of control with executives making hundreds of times more money than their average employee.

Parker seemed to be parroting much of what was written by Washington Post columnist Charles Lane, who recently poo-pooed President's Obama's talk about income disparity as "overly simplistic" and who wrote this about the recent Gallup Poll:

Seems like another exciting edition of Meet the Republican Press.

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