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Please do sign-up for this… So you get all the hilarity of their planning missives, as Michael P. Leahy lures all the suckers into one big marketing tent for his goofy Saul Alinsky books with their make-believe history. Oh, and it may also help screw up AFP/David Koch's bus-buying and booking plans for the big Back in the summer of 2007, Josh Silver's FreePress.org, and the Center for American Progress published a very important, and little discussed report called The Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio It found that:
Last Spring… David Neiwert's The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, which sliced and diced the preposterous right wing revisionism of Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism," got a fair amount of attention in the press. Here's a brief taste of it:
Try this at home Get out a notepad, and spend an hour reading these two articles, which, while pretty general, do a very good job of reciting the bullet points of these eras. As you read, write down points of interest which you think clearly resonate with our present populist "rebellions." They don't have to be exact I just woke up, and in my stream, was this tweet from Micah Sifry.
I had this hunch that my response was going to be more than 140 characters, so best to respond to it here where I can G.O.P. Group to Promote Conservative Ideas. There has been no shortage of Conservative think tanks. We're inundated with them. What this is really about is an organization specifically designed to exploit the Citizen's United Ruling. There are literally hundreds of these advocacy groups already, with combined budgets well over a billion dollars. And they funnel Introduction The entire Teaparty movement is based on ideas that have been continuously discredited for years. Yet the GOP, eager to leverage all the passion and zeal of these misguided populists, is promising policy based on still more of the fiscal absurdity that has already wreaked havoc on our cities. Over the next few weeks, I Preface: I really prefer micro-blogging about short, concise, action-oriented bits of news and information. I am not a journalist, and have never considered myself much of a writer, so forgive me as I stumble through a screed that is far longer and more ambitious than what I first intended, or what I normally offer on I always forget about this gem. Twitter just reminded me of it. Everyone needs to watch this 3 times, and then remember these words: "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
R.I.P. George Carlin. We never really appreciated you in your time. We miss you and
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