Monday, September 28, 2009

Your Brain On Tea Bags

Max Blumenthal covers the 9.12 anti-Obama rally on the National Mall, where tens of thousands of teabaggers, including a busload from Venango County organized by "Christian" radio station WAWN and the American "Family" Association of Pennsylvania, demonstrated their opposition to healthcare reform by calling Obama the biggest Nazi in the world, claiming he wants to put "real" Americans in concentration camps, and was born in Kenya. But how many of them have health insurance, and do they know they're pawns in the game of healthcare industry front man Dick Armey? Of course not.




Bill Moyers: Conservative Radicals and the Politics of Vengeance


Intellectual conservatism is dead. And the angriest, most intellectually bankrupt elements have taken over the movement.

In the following interview, Bill Moyers and powerhouse NYT editor and author of "The Death of Conservatism," Sam Tanenhaus, discuss the last gasps of the conservative movement. Tanenhaus says that far from signifying a resurgence of conservative ideals, the Tea Party protesters and shock jocks like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh spell the doom of the conservative movement.

See the full interview HERE

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