PHOTO GALLERY: Teabaggers and they’re terrible spelingA hilarious collection of the misspelt signs carried by the proud Tea Party movement in the US, carrying such classics as “Protect our boarders”, “No socilism” and “Respect are country, speak English!”.
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Video of the Day: The Mad Hatters at the Tea Party
A little chat with the protesting Tea Partiers in Washington, there to oppose Obama’s health care bill. It’s a happy collection of Fox News lovers, socialised medicine haters, people who haven’t actually read the bill and elephants.
Tea Party backlash brewing: meet the Coffee Party
Has the American conservative Tea Party movement boiled over into a bevvy of beverage-based politics? Meet the Coffee Party: a pro-democracy, anti-corporate movement building grass-roots traction across the States,
What the Tea Party and Woodstock have in common
Today’s right-wing Tea Party movement in the US and the left-wing hippy movement of the ’60s have more in common than you might think, explains David Brooks.
Tea Party or Republican Party?
America’s Right are having their big annual conference in Washington, but a big rift is forming between the traditional Republican Party members and the new wave of conservatives from the growing Tea Party movement. Is the new order about to overthrow the old guard?
Marvel editor: Why Captain America attacked the Tea Party
Marvel comics has recently come under attack from US conservatives, after the latest Captain America comic depicted the superhero making snide comments about a Tea Party protest. Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada explains it was simple the “perfect storm of screw-ups”. After all: they’re only human.
Henry Rollins: Sarah Palin, a dynamo of dumbassity
Henry Rollins rants about Tea Parties, Sarah Palin, homophobia and America’s race to the bottom.
Video of the Day: Sarah Palin goes to a tea party
Sarah Palin goes rogue at the first ever Tea Party National Convention (and all for the low, low price of $100,000!). Is she gearing up for a presidential run in 2012? Did the crib notes help? Have the lunatics finally taken over the asylum in the U-S-of-A? Is First Dude Todd really pulling all the […]
Just what is Sarah Palin up to?
Despite leaving politics in July, Alaska’s favourite hockey mom, Sarah Palin, is possibly more visible now than ever. Is she preparing to challenge Obama in 2012, or just riding high on the wave of kooky conservatism sweeping through the States?
“Retardgate”: Palin sparks another media flame war
Sarah Palin has started another media storm by slamming Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, for using the phrase “f-cking retarded”. Now the Special Olympics and Tea Party movement are involved.
How America’s right-wing grapevine works
The Washington Post looks at how an email by a conservative blogger at 5am can run through the blogosphere, the beltway and the parties, and end up being broadcast to Tea Partiers across the nation by Rush Limbaugh in the very same day.
Video of the Day: Tea Party: The Documentary
So far as we can tell, this is NOT a parody. This is a real film.
The Tea Partiers’ next target: the climate
After kicking up a stink about health-care reform and just in time for Copenhagen, members of America’s Tea Party Movement have zoned in on a new target: Obama’s climate bill.
Krugman: How the lunatic Right could bring down America
The Republican Party’s “lunatic fringe” — your Birthers, teabaggers, etc — isn’t really a fringe at all, says Paul Krugman: it’s taking control of the party. And if paranoid, far-right candidates win state office, the entire country could become “ungovernable”.
A lot to be said for socialism in an American ER …
The Democrats passed their health-care reform legislation in the House of Representatives over the weekend, though a Senate vote will be even tougher. The legislation may be imperfect, but it’s a start.
The Tea Party descends on DC
10,000 members of America’s right-wing Tea Party movement have swarmed DC to “scare” members of Congress from voting for health care reform. 10 have been arrested, while an All-Star line-up of GoP Reps showed up. Can they actually “kill the bill”?
Who is Glenn Beck and where did he come from?
No-one in the US right now is getting more media oxygen — or perhaps creating more hot air — than Fox News anchor Glenn Beck. Meet the new pin-up boy for the American Right.
America: how the lunatics took over the asylum
Birthers, teabaggers, town hallers, speech-to-schools scaremongers… the certifiably insane have officially taken over America’s political discourse. How did things get so crazy, so quickly? Is it fear driven by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, or is Obama himself to blame?
Pants on fire: Fox News vs. CNN
Fox News recently took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post, claiming all other news networks failed to cover recent right-wing protests in DC. CNN was not amused. Things have gone downhill from there…
Guy Rundle: Reality, alternate reality and tea parties
Organisers of a march in Washington against the Obama administration claimed to have attracted 1.5 million attendees, but it looks like they were off by a good 1.43 million. Of course, it’s all the Left’s fault.
Letter from...: Richmond, Virginia, USA
The elitist media and those in Congress and the White House who have been suggesting the rallies were orchestrated and faux-populist events ginned up by partisans and special interest groups are dead wrong, writes Karyn McDermott.
America’s hippie news station
The TEA party protests turn Fox News into long-haired fascism decriers.
Washington Post / Thursday, 8 April 2010
The Washington Post has a new blog all about the “conservative movement” and Republican Party, promising to explain what the right is “doing, thinking, and planning”. Could be fascinating reading for political junkies of all persuasions.