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The Tea Party Jacobins — Mark Lilla, NY Times Book Review
This is a wonderful interview, and like most of the Washington Journal good stuff, it was buried in the early morning segment when only we hard core @cspanWJ watchers even saw it. You really need to spend some time with this segment. He covers a lot of ground, and he knows his subject(s) really well. He's Typically, whenever some new event prompts a collective cry of disgust or outrage, the right wing noise machine leaps into action with some demonstration of false or exaggerated equivalency. In minutes, freedom rings with the sounds of "both sides do it." Whatever the meme, be it racist, violent, anti-semitic, or unpatriotic, the right uses an Russell King has penned a brilliant rant, and it's perfectly timed. I was just about to embark on a treasure hunt to find the best examples of this insane journey these freaks have taken us on. As I've been tweeting lately, Batshit Crazy is The New Normal. I doubt my Rants and Primers 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 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 My Definitions These are definitions I have created at UrbanDictionary.com. If you visit them, please vote them "thumbs up?" Thanks! Note: All terms are to the best of my knowledge, my creations, except where indicated by "*", in which case, I was defining a term coined by others. 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 |
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