WRONG TURNS

How Obama's Health-Care Push Went Astray. The complete Wall Street Journal article is interesting and well worth reading, but here is the key graf:

Rep. Peter Welch, a liberal Democrat from Vermont, had his epiphany during a meeting in a Mini Mart parking lot in Derbyline, a small town on the Canadian border. Over 50 people crowded around a couple of Dumpsters to berate him. “It was stunning,” Rep. Welch said. “They came with talking points’ gleaned from talk radio.”

In their infinite wisdom, the liberals have it wrong (again). The people didn’t come with talking points from from talk radio; talk radio got its talking points from them. That’s the difference between grass roots and astroturf.