First, part of her interview from the Austin Chronicle publicizing Ratatouille:
What I took most from the film … was respect for those that are different. Do not react with fear and anger at “the other.” Do not try to eradicate the other, and don’t rob them of their dignity. You can work much better together than you can apart. The rats were afraid of the humans and had many myths built up about their evil, and the humans were afraid of the rats and had many myths built up about their evil – most of which were untrue on both sides. As they overcame their fear of one another, they focused quite peacefully in order to [create] something better than they would have on their own.
And now some of her quotes from Countdown with Keith Olbermann regarding the April 15 tea parties:
“This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.”
” … the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it’s pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring.”
“I didn’t know there were so many racists left. I didn’t know that. I — you know, because as I’ve said, the Republican hype and the conservative movement has now crystallized into the white power movement.”
So... rats deserve more understanding than non-Air America listeners, and if you think the government spends too much, you're a subhuman skinhead.
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