The Real Names for the "Tea Party

The Real Names for the "Tea Party"

By Alex Gross

Has there ever been a greater waste of time than the recent, trumped-up deficit crisis???

And has there ever been a gaggle of ignorant yahoos more worthy of blame than those who caused it???

Why have they not been named and blamed for the phonies they are by our media???  Why have Wolf Blitzer and John King and Anderson Cooper treated them with the slightest smidgeon of respect???

Why have they not been named and shamed for their sham arguments and statistics by all responsible news crews???

Why was it ever suggested they played an honorable role in this nation's affairs???

Why weren't they called the Christian Extremist Party from the beginning???

Just ask them--they'll tell you for themselves.  They're
Christians. They're proud of being Christians. Like that guy in Norway. No, they're not terrorists yet, but just listen to Sharron Angle--Second Amendment Solutions indeed.

They're all such Good Christians, they're not just ignorant about economics, they're ignorant about everything.

Ask them, and they'll be happy to tell you. They're against Evolution, they think the world is 5,000 years old. They're against science and scientific research. They're against abortion and even the availability of birth control. They're against Gays and Gay Marriage. They're against pornography, they're even against all sex that might be enjoyable. They're against Blacks and Mexicans and Jews and Muslims and Orientals and all Foreigners.

They're proud of their faith, they've been born again, and they want you to know all about it. And they impose their cocksure Christian faith onto all their other weirdo and distinctly non-Christian values. With Christians like this, who needs the Anti-Christ???   

But they're not just the Christian Extremist Party, they're also the Rupert Murdoch Party. Face it, what Murdoch did to infiltrate two English governments is child's play compared to what he's done to take over the American political system.

Through Fox News Murdoch invented, incited, and
carefully nurtured the so-called Tea Party into existence. What's more, he used his network's power to steal the 2010 off-year election. 

Not since the days of Cromwell in 1653 has there been such a gross invasion of government by religious partisans in the English-speaking world. And Murdoch's done it all by perverting the guarantees of press and religious freedom guaranteed by the Constitution.

At least the British government has had the courage to face Murdoch down in London.  Does anyone want to bet on the odds of the US government doing the same over here?

So call it either the Christian Extremist Party or the Rupert Murdoch Party. How long will it be before our media dare to call it by either name???

--------------------
You can find out more
about the author by clicking
here

and more about his book
The Untold Sixties: When Hope Was Born
by clicking
here

BY ALL MEANS
POST YOUR COMMENTS
BELOW



The Real Danger Posed by Rupert Murdoch

The Real Danger Posed by Rupert Murdoch
By Alex Gross
Author, The Untold Sixties

Many Americans may not fully understand what role Rupert Murdoch's News of the World played in English life and why its departure is so long overdue. In the same way many Americans may not fully understand what role Murdoch's
Fox News has played in our own country. Nor how remarkably similar, despite all the seeming differences,
these two invasions into our national lives have been.

Let's start by explaining how News of the World looked on
a typical English newsstand. Americans are accustomed to seeing the weekly National Enquirer and its imitators on sale, but on almost all newsstands they will be found in their own section, away from genuine newspapers. Or perhaps we'll see them only at our supermarket checkout counters. Yes, we certainly know the Enquirer exists, but we also know that it's not the same as a real newspaper.

Not so in England. On British newsstands News of the World regularly appeared in the very same place as genuine Sunday newspapers, right next to them, on the very same bench as The Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, and the Sunday Times. But the last three can at least lay claim to being legitimate newspapers (though Murdoch now owns even the Sunday Times). But News of the World was alway filled with photos of near-naked women and celebrity gossip to an extent that might make even the editors of the National Enquirer blush.  

Nor did it sit alone on that bench, right next to where it lay you'll still find The People, remarkably similar in tone, along with the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday Mail, only slightly less offensive.

Some of this may come as a shock to many Americans.  That's because over the years a unique kind of love-hate relationship has grown up between Britain and the US. It's also because the two nations, even though they share a language and centuries of history, are so different in so many ways. I grew up only too familiar with this relationship in an Anglo-American family, with my American mother constantly at odds with my British father and my very British half-sister.

This love-hate has always been based on a special kind of
unrealism, on the notion, shared by many Americans and Britons alike, that the British are somehow more sophisticated and cultivated than Americans, that they
manage affairs in more tactful and dignified ways than Americans do. Even though this view has been jolted in
recent years by the emergence of obscenity-shouting,
beer-swilling footballers, this comparison still hangs on
in many quarters.

The entire News of the World affair is likely to jolt this image even further out of focus. There's nothing wrong with a bit of sensuality in the news, even a bit of ribaldry. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous American journalists, clearly enjoyed his more sensual side and even wrote about how to  manage a mistress, but he was also a scientist, a diplomat, and an astute politician.

Franklin himself actually worked as a reporter and wrote
perfectly straight news stories on crime, legal matters, and
natural disasters. He understood the difference between
neutral reporting and sensual titillation. As surprising as it
may be to Americans, much of English journalism has failed
to observe this difference and has long sought a lower level
than its American counterpart.

Not just Murdoch's papers but much of the English press has
featured a rough he-man's view, favoring simplistic notions
of society, politics, and sex. Far too much of English journalism has always been less concerned with Benjamin
Franklin than with Benny Hill.

Murdoch was clever enough to recognize that this view of 
journalism could not enjoy the same success in America. But
he has come as close as possible to achieving the same goal.
At Fox News he has merely adapted the very same approach
with remarkably few changes. Here too simplistic notions of
society, politics, and sex are the rule, while the appeal to the
he-man mindset is only too evident in the TV personalities
of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

Both broadcasters make no secret of their tough-guy approach to world politics. They are constantly urging their
audience to suppose that US and foreign events are easy to
understand, so easy that their audience can readily grasp
them and are certain to agree with O'Reilly and Hannity on
the details.

Most important, just as constant lies and cover-ups have
been the rule during the English scandal, deep, vast, and
unending lies have saturated Fox from the very outset. 
O'Reilly, Hannity, and everyone on the channel have never
stopped intoning the whopper that Fox is "fair and
balanced," even though some of their own newscasters have
conceded that it mainly serves as a mouthpiece for the right
wing of the Republican Party. 

Not to mention the continual Fox claim that "We Report,
You Decide," when in fact they have already decided what
audience members are meant to decide. They continually
impose their stamp of what reality is supposed to be for
Americans just as surely as News of the World has done for
Britons.

Almost all Americans are well aware that Fox was largely
responsible for the birth of the so-called "Tea Party," that
they actually nursed and incited its growth at every turn,
culminating in the recent off-year election. Most of the
members of this party are clearly ignorant of history,
geography, economics, and science, they are swayed by
simplistic faith-based beliefs dictated to them by Fox News.
Just as News of the World has been guilty of breaking the
law in England, so Fox News has played so fast and loose
with journalistic standards in the US that there are grounds
for believing it has set out to undermine and destroy the
guarantees for freedom of the press enshrined in the
Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson was so deeply concerned that the
Constitution should protect freedom of the press that he
persuaded James Madison to compose the "Bill of Rights."
He went even further when he wrote: "Were it left to me to
decide whether we should have a government without
newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should
not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

In other words, he assumed that our newspapers were in
most cases likely to be less corrupt than out governments.
But Jefferson could not foresee radio, TV, or the Internet,
and he clearly could not conceive of what we find today: a
consortium of press and other media even more corrupt than
government itself, bent on reducing government to its own
level of corruption.

This is the real threat facing society today in the US, the
UK, and elsewhere. Dealing with this threat will take time
and will require all the patience and wisdom our
governments can muster.

--------------------

You can find out more
about the author
by clicking
here

and more about his book
The Untold Sixties: When Hope Was Born
by clicking
here


BY ALL MEANS
POST YOUR COMMENTS
BELOW

Why Would You Vote for Republicans???

Why Would You Vote for Republicans???

Twelve Rock-Solid Reasons to Help You Decide...

1. Republicans caused the stock market crash.

2. Republicans caused the real estate catastrophe.

3. Republicans caused the banks to collapse and also drove the deficit sky-high.

4. Republicans sent millions of American jobs overseas.

5. Republicans keep bringing illegal immigrants into the US so they can pay them lower wages, and then Republicans insist illegal immigrants must be forced to leave.

6. Republicans claim they want more jobs for Americans, yet they have repeatedly voted against--or refused to vote at all--on crucial measures to create more jobs.

7. Republicans want to destroy Social Security.

8. Republicans want to destroy Medicare.

9. Republicans want to destroy middle class Americans and make the rich richer.

10. Republicans are religious fundamentalists and extremists unable to reverse or even criticize the hold of weird and unpredictable forces in their party.

11. Republicans have handed our elections over to foreign corporations.

12. Republicans totally and in every way caused this recession. They have no sound ideas for this nation, or none of this could have happened.

Can you imagine what they'll do if you vote 

them back in again...?

Are you STILL thinking about voting 

for Republicans...?

Please read this message carefully again on 

Election Day before you go out to vote.

Responsible
for this
unpaid
personal
message:

Alex Gross

Author, The Untold Sixties
www.untoldsixties.net

Visit My Main Website
http://language.home.sprynet.com/

FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS MESSAGE!

Copy It!

Retweet It!

Print It Out!

Slide It Under Your Neighbor's Door

Publish and Distribute It!

(Please copy it in its entirety, including the author's name and web credits.)

PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS BELOW

-----------------------------------------

NOTE: The full tweet to reach the original web page is:

Why Would You Vote for Republicans???
Twelve Rock-Solid Reasons to Help You Decide...
untoldsixties.net/nov-2b.htm

The Big Tea Party Lie

It's starting to show up everywhere, on TV, in the blogosphere, even in major newspapers*.

The enormous lie--or at least the stupendous exaggeration-- that the US has never been more divided than it is today.

But it's not even remotely true. Divisions were far more acute during the Sixties, by at least a factor of two or three.

At that time more than two-thirds of the population seriously believed that the government was busy preparing internment camps to lock away rebellious youth.

And at least one-third of Americans agreed that such camps were desperately needed. Another third was less sure but probably wouldn't have objected if the camps had ever opened their gates. 

And of course another ten percent of Americans were fairly sure that they had a good chance of ending up in  the camps.  There's even a 1971 film devoted to this theme, Punishment Park--it depicts the growing sadism of the American soldiers who guarded the prisoners.

Why are so many pundits suddenly voicing these doom's day sentiments? First of all, most of them are too young to know better, while the older ones have simply forgotten. Besides, it always sounds good to use  superlatives. "Most divided in our history" sounds a lot better than just "divided" or "severely divided." "Most divided since Lincoln" sounds even better and suggests that the authors know something about our history.

But they don't.  There have been quite a few periods that have rivaled or surpassed ours in divisiveness.  The fight over Joe McCarthy and alleged communists in the government during the Fifties, for example. Or the political climate between the Crash of '29 and Roosevelt's election in 1932.  Or the divisions between 1914 and 1916 over whether to enter World War I.

In any case, today's divisions center around our Congress, around the refusal by one political party to cooperate with the other one.  In other words they are limited to the workings of our government, as our constitution intended,  and with few exceptions have not yet spread to our streets or our citizenry.

Sure, there are thousands of Tea Partiers around.  But so far no one is calling for their imprisonment. Sure, Tea Partiers are pretty ugly, but this cabal of libertarians, racists, and outright loonies has been a constant over at least the last century. 

In 1900 they would have been screaming over the ratio of gold to paper money as the be-all and end-all of civilization as we know it.

So however you cut it, we're still quite unlikely to come anywhere near the level of Sixties anger.

Unless of course the likes of Palin, Paladino, Angle, and O'Donnell are actually elected to office.  If that ever happened, and they ever started to work their will on American laws and institutions...that's when we might begin to see a return to Sixties levels of anger.

If you need any further evidence that the passions of the Sixties far surpassed our own 
simply click here. . .

www.untoldsixties.net

No, the nation is not more divided now than ever before. It is simply caught up in a rhetorical whirlwind--one that could  conceivably turn into a truly destructive political tornado, even a hurricane. Or it could with a bit of luck simply dissolve back into the dirty little swirl of hot air it came from.

*Just a few examples:

http://www.squidoo.com/americancivilwar2010

http://www.centurycitynews.com/article/Columnists/Michael_Douglas_Carlin/Constitutional_Convention_Anyone/65396

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/09/avlon.9.11.anniversary/index.html?iref=allsearch

http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/why-is-america-so-divided/

Palin Caught Pallin' Around With Sixties Radicals

For Immediate Release
September 13, 2010

PALIN CAUGHT PALLIN' AROUND
WITH SIXTIES RADICALS

Indisputable evidence clearly linking Sarah Palin with Sixties radicals has driven Tea Party
organizers around the nation into near panic. Most leaders are currently keeping a strained
silence, but persistent questioning reveals an unmistakable rift. No one is willing to state
categorically that the Tea Party will not fall apart over this issue. The scandal is unlikely to
abate soon, since evidence clearly points to Palin's guilt in promoting radical Sixties ideas
and programs on three separate fronts.

Loud objections have sprung from Palin's use of the word "sexism" to characterize those
who oppose her views.  "We can't have any kind of Republican candidate using the word
‘sexism,’ observed a Texas Tea Party leader. “‘Sexism’ is a Sixties word, a Sixties idea, no one in America talked about sexism until the Sixties came along," he continued.
 
A Colorado activist agreed: "Anyone who uses the word ‘sexism’ is likely to mention
racism and ageism in the same breath,  these are all well-known Sixties slogans. Anyway, we all realize that sexism, racism, and ageism don't really exist, they're simply the product of
high taxes and a soaring budget--those are our real issues today."

Will the Tea Party Survive?

Many Tea Party stalwarts also see unmistakable Sixties influence in the way Palin dresses.
"Why she actually shows her knees while she's speaking in public, she even wears a
miniskirt," observed a prominent Tea Party matron in Kentucky.  "We all know where
miniskirts came from--they’re straight out of the Sixties, they’re English, they’re
socialist." “No true moral revival can come about,” added a well-known west-coast
evangelist, “unless we expose the Sixties origin of all such customs.”

As if this were not enough, even on the east coast a major right-wing ideologist has
expressed serious doubts about Palin and is only days away from going public. "There is a
fundamental position at stake here," he confided. “Not just Palin but McCain himself
have repeatedly referred to themselves as ‘mavericks,’ even as ‘rogues,’” he went on.

"But there can be no place on the right for either ‘mavericks’ or ‘rogues’--we are
essentially a party of like-minded conservatives.  Mavericks and rogues belong back in
the Sixties. I hate to sugest such a thing, but it could just be that there has been a
long-term radical conspiracy by the likes of Palin and McCain to bring the Sixties back
into our nation and undermine the purity of American conservative thought."

By All Means Leave Your Comments Below
Responsible for this article:
Alex Gross
Author, The Untold Sixties:
www.untoldsixties.net
Visit His Main Website:
http://language.home.sprynet.com/

 

The Most Dangerous Mistake All Humans Make...

      This is the revised version of my earlier blog...

      The Most Dangerous Mistake
      All Humans Make...
      
      There's a horrendous mistake all of us make
      almost every day.  It inevitably leads to
      even more horrendous consequences.
      
      We make this mistake repeatedly,
      without thinking about it
      in the slightest.
      
      Even though the only way
      we could ever stop making it
      would be to start thinking about it...
      
      Which no one really wants to do. 
      because we're truly in love
      with this mistake
      and want to go on
      making it forever...

      Despite its disastrous consequences
      for politics, economics,
      scientific truth,
      and our everyday personal lives...
      
      Let's call it:

      THE DEEP-DOWN FALLACY
      

      It has many forms, but basically
      it goes like this:

      Hey, deep down life isn't really
      all that complex...

      Basically everybody everywhere
      deep-down is the same...

      Basically deep-down
      everybody everywhere wants
      the same things...you know,
      food, shelter, that stuff...

      Basically deep-down
      all peoples & cultures
      are pretty much the same too...

      Basically deep-down
      all societies and all nations
      seek the same goals
      & for the same reasons...

      Basically deep-down
      all languages are the same
      and say the same thing
      in pretty much the same way... 

      Basically deep-down
      everybody everywhere
      believes in "God..."

      Which is why
      basically deep-down
      a yearning for "God"
      is universal...
      
      And why the word for "God"
      is basically deep-down
      the same in all languages...
      
      There, now you've seen them...

      At least some of them...

      Needless to say, however helpful
      so many of us may have
      found these notions
      over the years and centuries,
      not a single one of them
      is even remotely true... 

      And our insistence
      that they might be true
      has in so many different ways
      led to all the feuds, wars,
      genocides, crazed political theories,
      and murderous off-the-wall
      religious doctrines that have typified
      the last several thousand years
      of human history...

      Since it's so obvious
      that all of them MUST be true,
      any time we find people
      who resist these ideas
      or claim they aren't the same as us,
      they must be mistaken,
      and we must EDUCATE them...

      If they still resist
      after we EDUCATE them,
      then they quite obviously
      must be PUNISHED
      or somehow be made to obey...
      or else...
      disappear...

      
      It's precisely
      these stupid ideas
      that end up
      in disastrous results...
      

      Maybe the worst part comes
      when someone challenges us
      on our opinions,
      how pompous and hypocritical
      and downright belligerent
      we can become
      in defending ourselves...
      
      We'll go to almost any lengths
      to avoid admitting
      our lack of knowledge
      and experience of other peoples,
      not to mention
      our almost total
      lack of imagination.
      
      Can there be a solution...? 
      
      Maybe...
      
      Just maybe...
      
      Stay tuned...

Leave Your Comments Below...

Responsible for this article:
Alex Gross

Author, The Untold Sixtieswww.untoldsixties.net

Visit My Main Website
http://language.home.sprynet.com

      The Most Dangerous Mistake
      All Humans Make...
      
      There's a horrendous mistake all of us make
      almost every day.  It inevitably leads to
      even more horrendous consequences.
      We make this mistake repeatedly,
      without thinking about it
      in the slightest.
      
      Even though the only way
      we could ever stop making it
      would be to start thinking about it...
      
      Which no one really wants to do. 
      because we're truly in love
      with this mistake
      and want to go on
      making it forever...

      Despite its disastrous consequences
      for politics, economics,
      scientific truth,
      and our everyday personal lives...
      
      Let's call it:

      THE DEEP-DOWN FALLACY
      
      It has many forms, but basically
      it goes like this:

      Hey, deep down life isn't really
      all that complex...

      Basically everybody everywhere
      deep-down is the same...

      Basically deep-down
      everybody everywhere wants
      the same things...you know,
      food, shelter, that stuff...

      Basically deep-down
      all peoples & cultures
      are pretty much the same too...

      Basically deep-down
      all societies and all nations
      seek the same goals
      & for the same reasons...

      Basically deep-down
      all languages are the same
      and say the same thing
      in pretty much the same way... 

      Basically deep-down
      everybody everywhere
      believes in "God..."

      Which is why
      basically deep-down
      a yearning for "God"
      is universal...
      
      And why the word for "God"
      is basically deep-down
      the same in all languages...
      
      There, now you've seen them...

      At least some of them...

      Needless to say, however helpful
      so many of us may have
      found these notions
      over the years and centuries,
      not a single one of them
      is even remotely true... 

      And our insistence
      that they might be true
      has in so many different ways
      led to all the feuds, wars,
      genocides, crazed political theories,
      and murderous off-the-wall
      religious doctrines that have typified
      the last several thousand years
      of human history...

      Since it's so obvious
      that all of them MUST be true,
      any time we find people
      who resist these ideas
      or claim they aren't the same as us,
      they must be mistaken,
      and we must EDUCATE them...

      If they still resist
      after we EDUCATE them,
      then they quite obviously
      must be PUNISHED
      or somehow be made to obey...
      or else...
      disappear...
      
      It's precisely
      these stupid ideas
      that end up
      in disastrous results...
      
      Can there be a solution...? 

      Maybe...
      
      Just maybe...
      
      Stay tuned...

 
( Post Your Comments Below... )