The irony was both painful and delicious. “That’s what Bush called the ‘soft bigotry of lowered expectations,’ ” I noted. “Those people were smart enough to rig the system to defraud taxpayers.” That much was obvious, after all. So while Leonnig saw a bunch of low-income, mostly minority community organizers as dummies, duped by predatory Repugnicans, to everyone who actually watched the videos it was clear these were well-trained and well-informed operators, committed to navigating an intricate web of government and private services in order to suckle at the government teat.
