Boiling Mad - Inside Tea Party America, by Kate Zernike

Macmillan ^ | October 4, 2010

[Big Giant Head]

Thanks for posting this. I myself heard this delightful “piece” and was astonished at how they STILL don’t get the Tea Party. In fact, it is rather humorous to see NPR attempt to understand the Tea Party any time they try.

I actually tried to poke around on the National Propaganda Radio website to find this piece, but I didn’t know the name of the show I was listening to, and I didn’t care THAT much. I’m glad others get to hear the same entertainment I did.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Boiling mad?.....

Putting it mildly!.....I don’t want radicals running my country!

[relictele]

who "don't know any better than to always vote against their own interests."

Hmmm...does that apply to energy sector workers (read: coal miners) who voted straight party line Dem tickets despite the lefty-green agenda now part and parcel of the Dem platform?

[Psalm 144]

They want to control us
we want freedom

the two concepts cannot “co-exist”,
and force will be used if one side doesn’t “give in”.

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I agree with your analysis. I also believe that neither side will give in.

[Interesting Times]

Zernike wrote article after article in 2004 trying to prop up John Kerry's absurd combat stories. She's a full-fledged DNC Media apparatchik.

[jiggyboy]

Hah, a NYT reporter pretending to be knowledgeable about the Tea Party. “We see how young conservatives, who model their organization on the Grateful Dead...”, did a computer generating random combinations of words come up with that part of the article?

“Tomorrow, one of those kids from ‘Tiny Beauty Queens’ will explain the National Electric Code.”

[2001convSVT]

Yep, the two concepts can't co-exist, Liberty or Slavery, Zernike and Edwards can go pound sand!

[MrB]

"don't know any better than to always vote against their own interests."

I've heard this same crap from leftists for YEARS.

Somehow, they think that we should vote for our "best interests" to empower THEM to steal from other people to [not] give it to us.

Sorry, lefties, we're not the thieves that you are.

[Kozy]

He’s not black.

[Brookhaven]

a response to the election of the nation's first black MARXIST president

Any analysis of the tea party movement that assumes it has anything at all to do with race is missing the point. Race has nothing to do with it--never did; never will.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

“Grateful dead” is what I call democrat voters!

[CitizenM]

Isn't it amazing that everyone who is trying/has tried to analyze and describe the TEA Party movement are not part of the movement. They are always outsiders making assumptions, or taking pot shots, trying to paint the protesters as anything but seriously concerned and responsible citizens. No liberal seems to want to recognize that the TEA party is just a huge, loosely organized conglomerate of millions of people across America who come together out of frustration and who have similar feelings about being ignored and abused by our government officials. We have had enough of the lies from all politicians, the lies of the media, the lies and snobbery of the limousine liberals, and the intent of government to control our lives and take away our freedoms.

We are people who made America great and who just want to be heard in our pleas for less government spending, lower taxes, less government control and a return to the principles that set our country apart from every other nation and made it the success it was.

What the devil is so darn hard for anyone to understand?

[fr_freak]

IIRC, there was a story about an American who renounced his country and was perpetually remanded to different warships off-shore as a punishment - never to see his homeland again....

"The Man Without a Country"

by Edward Everett Hale

http://www.bartleby.com/310/6/1.html

[Brookhaven]

.....I believe this was some sort of story loosely connected to Francis Scott Key....

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Key was a prisoner aboad a British ship. The Star Spangled Banner is an account of the British attack on Baltimore, which he witnessed as a prisoner from the deck of that British ship.

I’ve always the the SSB, taken in that context, was very moving. Key knows the country is young and under attack by superior forces. He has real doubts in his mind that it will survive. He is on the edge of hopelessness, The one thing he has to hang on to is the fact that he can still see the American flag flying.

[cripplecreek]

confident that they will gaze at it like cows looking at a new gate, with dim incomprehension swirling in their sluggish minds.

LOL That's about the size of it.

[La Lydia]

It was made available by PRI (Public Radio International), not NPR, hence the difficulty. You know PRI: the even-farther-to-the-left version of NPR.

[tophat9000]

"don't know any better than to always vote against their own interests."

Ive always found that line from the left "vote against their own interests" intriguing and reveal..

Because we are suppose to be the selfish taker yet the "selfish taker" ... "vote against their own interests"? ...does the left ever get these two stereotypes they have of the right contradict each other

[BooBoo1000]

” The Man without a Country” “No man ever lived that loved his country more, or deserved less at her hands”

[BooBoo1000]

” The Man without a Country” “No man ever lived that loved his country more, or deserved less at her hands”

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘there was a story about an American who renounced his country and was perpetually remanded to different warships off-shore as a punishment - never to see his homeland again.’

The story is ‘The Man Without a Country’, by Edward Everett Hale, written in 1863 about fictional incidents surrounding the treason trial of Aaron Burr in 1807. It was meant as an attack on ‘traitor’ confederates. It has no connection to Francis Scott Key.