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  johnpi 2:26 pm on February 27, 2010 | 6 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 'teabaggers' (13), healthcare (8), public health (6), Tea Parties, UK (121)

  Lucky you…’Brighton Tea Party’: Tea Party movement spreads to Britain.

  Apparently some character named Daniel Hannan is involved:

  In addition to being anti-tax and a vocal Eurospectic, Hannan is also well known for his outspoken criticism of publicly funded health care. Last summer he appeared on Fox News to bash proposals to fix the US health care system as well as rail against Britain’s health services.

  ‘Eurospectic’ – Did they mean ‘Eurocentric’?

  Who knew Brits were pining for a US-style health system…

   

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  johnpi 9:34 pm on February 18, 2010 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 'teabaggers' (13), Tea Parties

  The Tea Party movement is eclectic and sometimes contradictory. I find it hard to understand or describe as anything other than ‘right wing’, but this insight from a NY Times profile pulled it all together:

  It is a sprawling rebellion, but running through it is a narrative of impending tyranny. This narrative permeates Tea Party Web sites, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds and YouTube videos. It is a prominent theme of their favored media outlets and commentators, and it connects the disparate issues that preoccupy many Tea Party supporters — from the concern that the community organization Acorn is stealing elections to the belief that Mr. Obama is trying to control the Internet and restrict gun ownership.

   
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  johnpi 9:29 am on December 8, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 'teabaggers' (13), health reform (12), racism (201), Tea Parties

  Heres an anti-healthcare reform ad running in the US right now that is somewhat disturbing. It is titled “I guess I’m a racist” and the ostensible intent is to mock the assertion that at least some of the opposition to Obama’s policies arise from racism.

  My subjective response to the ad is that it powerfully affirms racism whatever its other goals are, and there really are racists in the teabag, anti-healthcare reform movement:

  On Stormfront, the most popular white supremacist Internet forum, members have discussed becoming local organizers of the “Tea Parties” and finding ways to involve themselves in the events. Many racists have voiced their intent to attend these rallies for the purpose of cultivating an “organized grassroots White mass movement,” with some suggesting that they would do so without openly identifying themselves as racists.

   
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  aziz 7:12 pm on November 8, 2009 | 43 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: anti-Semitism (20), conservatism (21), Elie Wiesel, Tea Parties

  Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party’s anti-Semitism and Holocaust comparisons: “This kind of political hatred is indecent and disgusting”

  – The Elie Wiesel Foundation (@eliewieselfdn) on Twitter