Posted on 09/13/2010 10:15:17 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In his new book, “The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama,” the progressive journalist Will Bunch serves up his own anatomy of the Tea Party movement, that loose agglomeration of right-wing insurgents, libertarians, conservatives, evangelicals, survivalists, gun-rights crusaders, anti-tax protestors, deficit hawks, anti-government zealots, militia members, Ayn Randers, Limbaugh “ditto heads,” Glenn Beck fanatics, birthers, Birchers and supporters of Sarah Palin and Ron Paul.
As Mr. Bunch sees it, there are three main reasons for the rise of the Tea Party:
1. “Genuine anger and panic by rank-and-file conservatives” who were deeply frustrated by the election of Barack Obama, and who “suddenly saw a world in which — thanks to a growing electoral base that did not think or look like them — their Reaganist conservative philosophy might be shut out of power for good.”
2. “The electronic media” — including the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and local talk radio imitators, as well as social networking forces like Facebook and Twitter — which have enabled “like-minded Obama naysayers” to come together “without actual journalists intervening to filter out untrue information like the canard about the president’s birth certificate.”
3. “The ever-circling capitalists — the policy pushers who saw a new grass-roots movement as a back-door way to revive the big-business agenda” that had thrived from the 1980s through the George W. Bush era, along with “the pure-profit hucksters” eager to cash in on voter anger.
Mr. Bunch seems to have spent a lot of energy looking into Reason No. 3:(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Amazingly clueless.
Can’t progressives even write a book without name-calling, labeling, and getting personal? Must be a book written for other progressives.
No mention of bailouts? No mention of the US Constitution and the role of the federal gov’t? No mention of Rick Santelli?
This will not move my opinion of progressive journalist Will “My Panties” Bunch up a notch.
Projection.
Yeah, well he got that much right. Journo-lists who have served as the Democrat's life partners constantly filtering the news to assist them and hide the truth through omission and deceptive reporting.
Will Bunch can be summed up by “Losers gotta lose” - “haters gotta hate”.
Bunch is a ‘Progressive’ sore loser even before they have lost... He sees that light at the end of the tunnel and it is a oncoming Conservative Train... And Bunch just hates losing... In fact Bunch and his Leftist - Liberal - Progressive crowd will be crushed and much of their power will be short lived and gone with the advent of a big fat lame duck Obammy in office ...
“The electronic media” — including the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and local talk radio imitators, as well as social networking forces like Facebook and Twitter — which have enabled “like-minded Obama naysayers” to come together “without actual journalists intervening to filter out untrue information like the canard about the president’s birth certificate.”
How dare the people get information from some source not properly filtered by the left wing media!
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