If You're Working On Better Conditions For Prisoners, If You Make That A Popular Issue And You Invite Mainstream Media To Weigh In On That Subject, You're Going To End Up With A Much More Regressive Public-policy Environment Than If You Approach It In A Quieter Way. It's Not Because The Public Is Stupid, It's Just That People With Only A Cursory Interest In Something Are Going To Have A Knee-jerk Reaction To It. That's Impossible To Explain In A Cable-news Media... It Doesn't Make Sense.
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If You're Working On Better Conditions For
Rachel Maddow
If You're Working On Better Conditions For Prisoners, If You Make That A Popular Issue And You Invite Mainstream Media To Weigh In On That Subject, You're Going To End Up With A Much More Regressive Public-policy Environment Than If You Approach It In A Quieter Way. It's Not Because The Public Is Stupid, It's Just That People With Only A Cursory Interest In Something Are Going To Have A Knee-jerk Reaction To It. That's Impossible To Explain In A Cable-news Media... It Doesn't Make Sense.
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