Reply #21: The tone.

[ColbertWatcher]

He's the president and he dismissed legitimate protests with a flippant remark.

He made the remark after having been driven by them protesters and entering the Beverly Hills Hilton. There is no indication of how much time passed between the time his car passed them on the street and when he delivered his remark. Yet, there didn't seem to be any indication that he showed any intellectual curiousity about who was in the "group" that he could only hear "vaguely" (there was only one?), what they were protesting and what promises they were talking about.

He has a staff. I can't believe that he didn't bother to ask anyone on his staff to take note of who those people were and what they wanted.

Did he think they were teabaggers? Or, worse, Birthers!?

One more thing, it's interesting that he characterized the sight of people protesting as "nice," but it's insulting that he didn't care enough to find out what promise they said he wasn't keeping.

Maybe the protesters should have hired lobbyists to get to that table single-payer can't get to and discuss their concerns in an air-conditioned room.