{"id":34815,"date":"2011-05-01T15:42:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/catch-me-tonight-on-msnbc-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T15:42:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:42:47","slug":"catch-me-tonight-on-msnbc-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/catch-me-tonight-on-msnbc-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Catch Me Tonight on MSNBC | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: <\/strong>It appears I’ll be on closer to 8:30 or 8:40 ET than to 8 ET…<\/p>

Tonight I’ll be going on MSNBC’s “The Last Word<\/a>,” where Chris Hayes<\/a> is hosting (in place of Lawrence O’Donnell). The topic is birthers and conspiracy theories, and I’ll be talking about my Mother Jones<\/em> article<\/a> alongside Jonathan Kay<\/a>, author of the new book Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground<\/em>.<\/a> Show airs around 8pm, although I believe our segment will be later than that.<\/p>

By the way, here’s O’Donnell with the original birther Orly Taitz last night, who quite predictably, appears to have gone through a “cognitive dissonance” resolution\/motivated reasoning process<\/a> and found a new way to rationalize her ongoing denial that President Obama was born in the U.S.<\/p>

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>

The more I think about it, the more the birthers and the Seekers (described in the Mother Jones<\/em> piec<\/a>e) have in common. Both had adopted a worldview that essentially required them to bet it all on a single development: The Seekers had predicted that the world would end on a particular day, and the birthers had bet that Obama’s long-form birth certificate would have something wrong with it, not exist, etc. <\/p>

And then, when the day and data finally arrived and the facts didn’t fit their theory (the world didn’t end, Obama had a perfectly good birth certificate) they of course couldn’t give up their prior views–to which they had committed themselves emotionally, financially, etc. These views had quite literally become a physical part of their brains. So what did they do?<\/p>

Well, you saw the video.<\/p>

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UPDATE: It appears I’ll be on closer to 8:30 or 8:40 ET than to 8 ET…Tonight I’ll be going on MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” where Chris Hayes is hosting (in place of Lawrence O’Donnell). The topic is birthers and conspiracy … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}