Naomi Wolf: Tea Party Darling?

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[Michael van der Galien]

Naomi Wolf believes 9/11 truthers have “legitimate questions,” conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is a brave truth teller, and the early Bolsheviks opposed torture.

In 2007, 100 copies of Wolf’s book, The End of America, were donated to Code Pink for distribution to United States senators. In 2008, she announced that the fascist Bush administration was intercepting her mail, including letters from her 13-year-old daughter. Later that year, she called Sarah Palin “the muse of the coming police state.”

And now we are told by Alternet that Naomi Wolf is considered a “Tea Party darling”? Huh? Did I blink and miss her overnight conversion from devoted leftist crank to Gadsen flag-waving protester?

Not likely. Camille Paglia provides some insight in a 1993 New York Magazine interview:

“I don’t think Naomi has any deep beliefs,” Paglia says. “She’s derivative, picks up on whichever way the wind is blowing, and uses that to advance herself.”

Over the last few years, Wolf has discovered that despite her leftist feminist roots, some small but vocal groups on the Right find her flavor of anti-government paranoia attractive. Thus, her treatise on the ten steps to fascism (step 1: Bush lied, step 2: Bush lied again, and so on) is a runaway hit with conspiracy nuts and Ron Paul supporters (but I repeat myself.) And Wolf is happy to substitute Obama for Bush now that the Rove/Cheney cabal has come and gone.

But it is a mistake to consider Wolf a libertarian ally.

[hinckley buzzard]

Wasn't she the one who tried to get Algore elected by dressing him in "earth-tones?" An airhead at large.

[Tribune7]

But it is a mistake to consider Wolf a libertarian ally.

Um, yes.

OTOH, she might work OK as a libertarian suicide bomber i.e. let her rip 0 on MSNBC.

[vladimir998]

that’s the gal!

[Clock King]

“I don’t think Naomi has any deep beliefs,” Paglia says

Nailed it!

[mlocher]

“I don’t think Naomi has any deep beliefs,”

Or any beliefs at all.

[MrEdd]

There is no “Tea Party Darling” Not Naomi Wolf, not even Sarah Palin.

There are only Ideololical principles being promoted.

This is not about personalities.

[Marty62]

“Bolsheviks opposed torture.”

BS.

[Past Your Eyes]

I think that’s the one. And also encouraged him to enhance his “package”.

[Sherman Logan]

The “early” Bolsheviks, as in before they came to power, probably did oppose torture, seeing as they were the ones being tortured.

Changed their minds right quick after the Revolution, of course.

[Madame Dufarge]

Judge Andrew Napolitano had her on Glenn Beck's show this week when he was substituting.

Couldn't figure that one out at all.

She was her usual snarky, smug self.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Wolf is a pop culture flake. If she had not started out as a feminist writer she would have been torn to pieces by critics long ago.

We live in a society so screwed up that a screwball like Wolf can be a Rhodes Scholar and be taken as a serious person when she is completely unworthy.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

The entire challenge of politics can be boiled down to the statistical process of discrimination (the D² statistic). You are trying to minimize within-group differences ( to form a cohesive group) while at the same time maximizing between-group differences (the difference between the core of your group's belief's and that of your opponents) to maximize contrast and perceived separation, to maintain a unique identity.

The interesting thing about the so-called "Tea Party" movement is its amorphousness and lack of formal structure. My wife attended a Tea Party rally in Fort Lauderdale in April of 2009 - and there was no PA system, there were no speakers, there was no written agenda or leaflets of any kind. Absolutely no organization (mailing list, responsible leaders, etc.). Nothing. It was just a very large (and diverse) gathering which got its point across in the media coverage of the event. This presents an interesting "moving target" phenomenon (like the proverbial "nailing jelly to a tree") for the left and the Obama Administration and they have tried a number of things to co-opt the movement. The key is not to organize too formally and be pinned down. And it will help to keep folks like Naomi Wolf from claiming some official authority or sanction from the "Tea Party" movement to speak on its behalf.

[originalbuckeye]

The police state is here, courtesy of Zero and his Chicago thugs. I raced home from work on Thursday to make sure that our census form was postmarked on April 1st. I didn’t want to be prosecuted.

[driftless2]

"beliefs at all

She has beliefs, but like virtually all rad feminists they most likely stem from her cherished belief in abortion "rights." Just about all radical feminists esteem abortion "rights" above any other. They'd also prattle the usual Marxist talking points, but abortion was their one and only god. If the Republican Party endorsed abortion "rights" and the Democrats became pro-life, many (not all, the man-haters would stay with the Dems) of these rad feminists would switch political positions. That's why they revile Sarah Palin so much. She's a woman, therefore she's supposed to support abortion.

[FrankR]

I do not know who started all this "tea party darling" nonsense, but it must be the folks who still think the moon is made of green cheese. Time and time again it has be said - TV, Radio, Newspapers, and all over the internet, that the TEA party movement is NOT a "political party"...it has no "leader", per se, and the left is not going to define it for us.

Again, here is what Sarah Palin said at the TEA party convention in February of this year:
I caution against allowing this movement to be defined by any one leader or politician. The Tea Party movement is not a top-down operation. It’s a ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way that they're doing business, and that’s beautiful. This is about the people. This is about the people, and it’s bigger than any king or queen of a Tea Party. And it’s a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter.

The soul of this movement is the people -- everyday Americans who grow our food and run our small businesses, teach our kids, and fight our wars. They’re folks in small towns and cities across this great nation who saw what was happening -- and they saw and were concerned, and they got involved. Like you, they go to town hall meetings, and they write op-eds. They run for local office. You all have the courage to stand up and speak out. You have a vision for the future, one that values conservative principles and common sense solutions. And if that sounds like you, then you probably too are feeling a bit discouraged by what you see in Washington D.C.

The left doesn't want to believe that the TEA party movement is about the people...for that would blow their whole leftist, progressive, socialist argument.

For them, it's got to be a "vicious right wing militia, issuing threats and racial epithets"...bacause without that definition, the democrats are just plain ol' liars (which they are anyway).

Liberalism/socialism cannot abide the light...when the light is shone upon them, they scurry for cover and make up some new lies behind closed doors, in the dark.

Everyone knows they do that, even other democrats, but for some reason mentioning that 800 pound gorilla is not "politically correct" these days.

Then there are those - like one liberal who calls Rush - who thinks the original Boston Tea Party was to protest tea - the drink - because drinking tea is too "British" and Americans drink coffee. She has no idea it was about the same think the current TEA party movement is about...EXCESSIVE TAXATION.

But, we as a nation seem to forget the lessons of childhood...the libs say their daddy can whip our daddy, and we engage in a debate over it; our moms told us to "ignore them and they'll go away", or "to argue with them only makes it worse", but we've forgotten that and we let them pull us into their world of ultra-ridiculousness.

Like the history of socialism, most things that liberals do and believe in eventually fall apart for they are based on adolescent ideas of candy canes and utopia for all, and the world just doesn't work that way, and never will...and all because of one thing that even king obama can't change...human nature.

So, there are no TEA party "darlings", because there is no TEA "PARTY"...only Americans citizens sick of their country being ripped apart by a National "frat party" gone awry.

[Marty62]

According to a first hand report from a Jewish Lady I knew. Who btw would try to sell a bar of soap so that her Mother could buy a Potato. She feared the Bolsheviks more than the Nazis. I believe her. Lived in Kiev.
Considering the wrath of the Nazis, that was a telling statement.

[Marty62]

“At Ron Paul rally in Washington, D.C., Wolf met “a lot of ‘ordinary’ people, as in not privileged” and advises her fellow leftists to communicate with limited government plebs “by using language that anyone can understand even if you majored in semiotics at Yale.”

More leftie psyops.
Forget Wolf, she thinks you all are stupid.
Typical elitists leftie.

[tet68]

Note to All:

Don’t get Naomi confused with Claire Wolfe, two
totally different creatures.

[alstewartfan]

Yeah, she may think that WE are stupid, but her acolytes include many leftist women who failed to notice that while she was telling them all to look more like men (ugly), she herself was in perfect shape, wore make-up and long, ravishing locks! *Who* is stupid now? lol Bob