{"id":7137,"date":"2010-08-29T10:36:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2010-08-29T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T17:59:16","slug":"tea-party-rocks-primaries-rollingstone-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/08\/tea-party-rocks-primaries-rollingstone-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Rocks Primaries &#8212; RollingStone.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"taibbi_tea_party.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2010\/08\/taibbi_tea_party.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"taibbi_tea_party.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/matt-taibbi\/blogs\/TaibbiData_May2010\/195177\/83512\" >Tea Party Rocks Primaries &#8212; RollingStone.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia; color: #202020; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia; color: #202020; line-height: 17px;\">?There\u2019s nothing in the world more tired than a progressive blogger like me flipping out over the latest idiocies emanating from the\u00a0<em style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Fox News<\/em> crowd. But this summer\u2019s media hate-fest is different than anything we\u2019ve seen before. What we\u2019re watching is a calculated campaign to demonize blacks, Mexicans, and gays and convince a plurality of economically-depressed white voters that they are under imminent legal and perhaps even physical attack by a conspiracy of leftist nonwhites. They\u2019re telling these people that their government is illegitimate and criminal and unironically urging secession and revolution.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia; color: #202020; line-height: 17px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px;\">On July 12, Glenn Beck implied that the Obama government was going to aid the New Black Panther Party in starting a race war, with the ultimate aim of killing white babies. &#8220;They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are going to poke, and poke, and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it.&#8221; He also said that &#8220;we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, &#8216;Kill all white babies.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px;\">CNN contributor and Redstate.com writer Erick Erickson, on the Panther mess: &#8220;Republican candidates nationwide should seize on this issue. The Democrats are giving a pass to radicals who advocate killing white kids in the name of racial justice and who try to block voters from the polls.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px;\">On July 6, the\u00a0<em style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Washington Times<\/em> columnist J. Christian Adams wrote an editorial insisting that &#8220;top [Obama] appointees have allowed and even encouraged race-based enforcement as either tacit or open policy,&#8221; marking one of what would become many assertions by commentators that the Obama administration was no longer interested in protecting the rights of white people. &#8220;The Bush Civil Rights Division was willing to protect all Americans from racial discrimination,\u201d Adams wrote. \u201cDuring the Obama years, the Holder years, only some Americans will be protected.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px;\">July 12: Rush Limbaugh says Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder \u201cprotect and represent\u201d the New Black Panther party.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px;\">July 28: Rush says Supreme Court decision on 1070 strips Arizonans of their rights to defend themselves against an \u201cinvasion\u201d: &#8220;I guess the judge is saying it&#8217;s not in the public interest for Arizona to try to defend itself from an invasion. I don&#8217;t know how you look at this with any sort of common sense and come to the ruling this woman came to.\u201d That same day, Rush says this: &#8220;Muslim terrorists are going to have a field day in Arizona. You cannot ask them where they&#8217;re from. You cannot even act like we know where they&#8217;re from. You cannot ask them for their papers. We can ask you for yours. Not them.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px;\">July 29: The\u00a0<em style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Washington Times<\/em> asks \u201cShould Arizona Secede?\u201d and says the Supreme Court &#8220;is unilaterally disarming the people of Arizona in the face of a dangerous enemy\u201d with the aim of creating a \u201csocialist superstate.\u201d The paper writes: &#8220;The choice is becoming starkly apparent: devolution or dissolution.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px;\">July 29,\u00a0<em style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Fox and Friends<\/em> host Steve Doocy continues the Radio Rwanda theme, saying, &#8220;If the feds won&#8217;t protect the people and Governor Brewer can&#8217;t protect her citizens, what are the people of Arizona supposed to do?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia; line-height: 17px; color: #202020;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia; line-height: 17px; color: #202020;\">I&#8217;m beginning to wonder why effective boycotts against these hate-media channels, and particularly<em style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Fox<\/em>, haven\u2019t been organized yet. Why not just pick out one\u00a0<em style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Fox<\/em> advertiser at random and make an example out of it? How about Subaru and their unintentionally comic \u201cLove\u201d slogan? I actually like their cars, but what the fuck? How about Pep Boys and that annoying logo of theirs? Just to prove that it can be done, I\u2019d like to see at least\u00a0<em style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">one<\/em> firm get blown out of business as a consequence of financially supporting the network that is telling America that its black president wants to kill white babies. Isn&#8217;t that at least the first move here? It&#8217;s beginning to strike me that sitting by and doing nothing about this madness is not a terribly responsible way to behave.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea Party Rocks Primaries &#8212; RollingStone.com: ?There\u2019s nothing in the world more tired than a progressive blogger like me flipping out over the latest idiocies emanating from the\u00a0Fox News crowd. But this summer\u2019s media hate-fest is different than anything we\u2019ve seen before. What we\u2019re watching is a calculated campaign to demonize blacks, Mexicans, and gays &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/08\/tea-party-rocks-primaries-rollingstone-com\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tea Party Rocks Primaries &#8212; RollingStone.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1R7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7144,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/7144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}