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 […]

Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged American Community Survey, Arkansas, census, Census Bureau, conspiracy theories, domestic terrorism, internment camps, James Von Brunn, Jerry Kane, Lionel Craig Patterson, Michele Bachman, paranoia, patriot movement, Redemption theory, RedState.com, Scott Roeder, shootout with police, sovereign citizen, tea party, Victoria Roger-Vasselin, violence on the extreme right, West Memphis, Yuba City | 15 Comments

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 […]

Posted in Media, Politics | Also tagged American revolution, bejeweled tea bag, Betsy Ross, Bill O’Reilly, Burberry, Conservative Political Action Conference, flags, Frank Rich, Glenn Beck, Jeffery McQueen, Michael Steele, movements co-opted by hucksters, Nashville, National Public Radio, On Point, Opryland, RedState.com, Sarah Palin, swindles, tea party, Tea Party Convention, Tea Party Emporium, Tea Partyfication, the exploitation of the stupid, the straw that brought the camels back, Tom Ashbrook | 7 Comments

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