Essay: Tea party has roots in the Dallas of 1963

Washington Post ^ | 11/21/2013 | Bill Minutaglio

[GeronL]

The MSM needs to be erased and replaced

[SC_Pete]

We all have to support the alternative media. We need our billionaire supporters to counter Soros.

[GeronL]

There are no billionaires on our side

[kcvl]

And all this time I thought a PINKO COMMIE killed Kennedy...

Update: Tim Graham at PA Pundits has a much more informed report on NPR’s original segment (of which I caught the tail end of, or the following day’s listener mail) and quotes sections of the NPR interview with author Bill Minutaglio, who peddles this “right wing hysteria” fantasy:

BLOCK: As we approach the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, a new book dives deep into the city where the murder took place. “Dallas, 1963; explores the swirling forces of right wing fanaticism at work in the city during the three years leading up to JFK’s assassination. By this account, Dallas in the early ’60s was a stew of super-patriotism, fueled by anti-communist paranoia, fierce racism and anti-Semitism.

Reading Tim’s account, it appears that historians and authors on the Left not only still dust off and promote this toxic mythology, they’re doubling down on it. Or at least Bill Minutaglio is, in his new book. And, I’m sure, ties it to the Tea Party, casually and dishonestly mislabeling it as a racist, radical pro-white, ‘hate’ group. Identical to those “right wing fanatics” in Dallas who collectively killed Kennedy, dragging America with it. Good grief. Who is the paranoid one here?

Besides George Will, I hope other rational reviewers take Minutaglio’s book apart, and expose it for what it is. Paranoid Left Wing Fantasy. Reason-free, heartfelt, self-affirming propaganda. Other historians are sure to agree. It hits all the right notes, in harmony.

As Tim notes:

Among the book blurbs for Minutaglio is one of the liberal media’s favorite historians/hysterians, Douglas Brinkley:

“Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis’s DALLAS 1963 is a brilliantly written, haunting eulogy to John F. Kennedy. By exposing the hatred aimed at our 35th president, the authors demonstrates that America–not just Lee Harvey Oswald–was ultimately responsible for his death. Every page is an eye opener. Highly recommended!”

http://punditfromanotherplanet.com/tag/james-reston/

[Just mythoughts]

This turkey must have slept through the Bush years. ‘No blood for oil’, ‘what did Bush know and when did he know it?’... for starters.

Bunch of perverts ... TeaParty = NO taxation/mandates without representation.

[Just mythoughts]

I forgot to add this link. This dark mind's fellow traveler claims the lying liberals only see darkness presently... So given who it is that keeps the ‘host’ in business it can not be ignored what is the primary agenda. Demonize the TeaParty into blood thirsty killers. Once again the ‘devil’ is in their details.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3094113/posts

[SC_Pete]

Koch Brothers:

Members of the Koch family have given to conservative and libertarian policy and advocacy groups in the United States,[12] including think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, and more recently Americans for Prosperity.[13] Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks are organizations with links to both the Kochs and the Tea Party movement.[14][15][16][17]

According to the Koch Family Foundations and Philanthropy website, “the foundations and the individual giving of Koch family members” have financially supported organizations “fostering entrepreneurship, education, human services, at-risk youth, arts and culture, and medical research.” [18]

[smokingfrog]

I think I lost 50 IQ points just by reading that.