Defending the Indefensible by Anil Dash, Ep 70

Paris Hilton. Tea Partiers. Michael Jackson. Anil Dash (twitter.com/anildash) searches through pop culture for misunderstood souls and looks at the world through their eyes.
This was filmed at Ignite NYC (www.ignitenyc.org). See more Ignite talks at igniteshow.com) Distributed by Tubemogul.

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[huhuyem334g]

The pretentiousness of the individual in this video is staggering.

Once you're past a certain tipping point, as government expands, freedom contract. Also, as government expands, prosperity contract. This is what the Tea Partiers believe. It's not that complicated.

Of course, they're easier to oppose if you ignore this and call them all racist or act as though their opposition to a leftest president is racially based.

Watch some more MSNBC, dude. Seriously.

[kwrestad]

(1:43) I believe he meant innocence, not innoscence. Seriously? I'm not sure spelling errors on a public presentation such as this are defensible.

[tmoney1876]

@noferblatz Yeah... a huge oversimplification of an overall misunderstanding of the basis of the movement. On top of that, the tea party movement has been found to follow the demographics of the overall population of this country.

[todnyc]

So his thesis is that If you understand why someone is doing something, it is defensible? THAT is indefensible!

[todnyc]

@DjChronokun And consider the second argument here: "A guy who was trying to get Michael Jackson's money committed suicide; therefore, Michael Jackson was not a pedophile." That type of "logic" is indefensible.

[todnyc]

@noferblatz You are referring to the fact that white people are obviously still IN power, right?

[Cheekybarber]

I really loved this one! It was truthful. A++++

[Canonpixmalogitechko]

I don't think paris hilton being greedier than her siblings makes her better than them. Michael Jackson was wierd regardless of the molestation charges. "They're old and white" isn't defense for being a bigot.

There is nothing wrong with powerpoint, except that it costs money.

[DjChronokun]

did he just say that Paris Hilton's music is better than the kind that goes NTS NTS NTS NTS... ?!!!?!??!!! this guy is now indefensible...

[neoaeonian]

This is amazing!

I'm not with the guy's tea party analysis,

but his, "Follow the money." "Empathisize."

This was a very good talk!

I've seen lots of things slammed for money that were actually quite good.