Tag Archives: Erick Erickson

Paranoia on the right leads to more bloodshed

By Mark | May 25, 2010

Not too long ago, CNN contributor and Republican blogger, Erick Erickson, publicly threatened to pull a shotgun on census workers if they had the audacity to show up on his doorstep…. Here’s a clip from Politico: …Erickson — the founder of the conservative blog RedState — said on his Macon, Ga.-area radio show Thursday that […]

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The Great Tea Party Swindle

By Mark | January 17, 2010

Frank Rich, in today’s New York Times, suggests that the Tea Party movement is being fostered because it allows ready access easy marks. Here’s a clip: …Both Steele and Palin claim to be devotees of the tea party movement. “I’m a tea partier, I’m a town-haller, I’m a grass-roots-er” is how Steele put it in […]