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A witty look at Tea Parties and the reactionaries that is both funny and frightening. It explores how it overtook the conservative movement after Obama became president. The book helps readers make sense of the chaos in the media and offers ideas for bringing a stop to it and help make America sane again Compiling example after example, the editors of Crooks and Liars, a popular blog, examine the torrent of right-wing kookerythe eager willingness of conservatives to fervently believe things that are provably falseand its ramifications both for our national discourse and our national well-being. The authors show how this outlandish, overheated rhetoricgenerated by mainstream-media figures like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Lou Dobbsis accompanied by a wave of lethal right-wing threats and violence. They carefully expose the bias of Fox News contributors Neil Cavuto, Greta, Van Susteren, et al, and political opportunists like Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich. The book explores the main drivers of this descent into the extremist Radical Right and the longtime Republican willingnessdating back to Nixon, but refined in more recent years by Lee Atwater and his acolytesto engage in a divisi

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Author
John Amato; David Neiwert; Digby
Publisher
PoliPointPress : Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780982417171
Category
history
Subjects
Political Science, Fiction, Science
Rating
3.81 / 5 (109 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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