William Blum: Tea Party Crazy Has a History

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consortiumnews.com

Tea Party Crazy Has a History

By William Blum
May 12, 2010

If you shake your head and roll your eyes at the nonsense coming out of the Teabagger followers of Sarah “Africa is a country” Palin and other intellectual giants like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh ...

If you have thoughts of moving abroad after the latest silly lies and fantasies like “Obama the Marxist” and “Obama the antichrist” ... If you share Noam Chomsky’s feeling: "I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime” ...

Keep in mind that the right wing has long been at least as stupid and as mean-spirited.

Consider some of the behavior of the same types for half a century during the Cold War with its beloved -- albeit imaginary -- "International Communist Conspiracy.”

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--1966: “Rhythm, Riots and Revolution: An Analysis of the Communist Use of Music, The Communist Master Music Plan”, by David A. Noebel, published by Christian Crusade Publications, (expanded version of 1965 pamphlet: “Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles”).

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--1985: October 29 BBC interview with Ronald Reagan: asked about the differences he saw between the U.S. and Russia, the president replied: “I'm no linguist, but I've been told that in the Russian language there isn't even a word for freedom.” (The word is “svoboda”.)

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Stupid. It's been eating away at America for a long time. Check yourself.

[noiretextatique]

1. this current version of rw idiocy is nothing new

as i am fond on saying, teabaggerts are the folks who bombed churches, cursed at little black kids trying to go to school, and murdered civil rights workers. like ronald reagan, their fantasy is a return to the america of 1946.

[MikeMc]

3. Or a return to Lindberg's America First movement from 1941

nt

[noiretextatique]

7. right...they long for a time when people were kept in their places.

women in the kitchen and black people cleaning the kitchen.

[louis-t]

2. Great read. Saved to favorites.

More evidence.

[laststeamtrain]

4. Blum's a gem. Here's his "Brief History of U.S. Interventions: 1945 to the Present"

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/US_Interventions_WBlumZ.html

[Bitwit1234]

5. I truly think the only movement that republicans should ever have

is bowel.

[eridani]

6. Unfortunately they do

Too bad it always splatters all over the general public.