Tea Baggers.
The Tea Party's Toxic Take on History Ignore it at your peril.
By Ron RosenbaumPosted Thursday, April 22, 2010, at 4:50 PM ET
I am a great believer in used-bookstore serendipity. Sometimes when you're thinking about how to express something, you find a perfect exemplification of it just by chance in the musty stacks of such an emporium. Here's a remarkable example. I'd been trying to find a way to write about Tea Party ideology, and in particular about the fraudulent history and distorted language it indulges in. Listen to Tea Partiers on cable news-or read the signs they hoist or their Internet comments-and you frequently encounter the flagrant abuse, the historically ignorant misuse, of words such as tyranny, communist, Marxist, fascist, and socialist.
http://www.slate.com/id/2251669/
By Ron RosenbaumPosted Thursday, April 22, 2010, at 4:50 PM ET
I am a great believer in used-bookstore serendipity. Sometimes when you're thinking about how to express something, you find a perfect exemplification of it just by chance in the musty stacks of such an emporium. Here's a remarkable example. I'd been trying to find a way to write about Tea Party ideology, and in particular about the fraudulent history and distorted language it indulges in. Listen to Tea Partiers on cable news-or read the signs they hoist or their Internet comments-and you frequently encounter the flagrant abuse, the historically ignorant misuse, of words such as tyranny, communist, Marxist, fascist, and socialist.
http://www.slate.com/id/2251669/