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yeah, see i don't really get all the harumph harumph we are not racists "outrage" from folk sympathetic to the tea party above. it is self-evident that the movement is open to the whole spectrum of rightwing-to-ultra rightwing groups and people and that anyone--at all--was welcome by the non-center when they were useful as bodies for tea party astroturf events. astroturf because there's also little doubt that the sweetheart coverage provided the ultra-right by those fine impresarios of reaction at fox news played a big role in creating the tea party.
anyway, it seems to me that folk simply want to have it both ways: when the mirror is held up to some nebulous "populist outrage" and the cameras are assumed not to be rolling, any noxious sloganeering is fine. but once folk who aren't interested in being part of the party start looking, so once focus changes to what these people are doing and what they say and what they might stand for or want based on that....then it's all WHADDYA MEAN?
as for the xenophobia--yeah. it's appalling. but it's the kind of mideval ignorance that gives the tea party traction.
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