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Did Sarah Palin write this Amazon review?
I thought that the below Amazon review of Michael Hyde’s The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgment (Purdue 2005), in its unironic anti-intellectuality and impatience with anything not conventionally “normal,” inadvertently channelled Sarah Palin. It was as if the person had accidentally walked into the … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, college, intellectuals, michael hyde, middle brow, populism, Sarah Palin, tea partiers
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Fox News 101: What Every Authoritarian Knows
Hermann Goering to Captain G. Gilbert, Nuremberg, 1945: “Naturally the common people don’t want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country … Continue reading
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Tagged authoritarianism, fascism, fascists, Fox News, patriotism, populism, Republican party, right wing, rush limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity
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Glenn Beck Friday: Creepy, Maudlin, Hysterical Populism on Display
The clip below is illustrative of how religious emotionalism is easily translated, by a charlatan like Glenn Beck, into political emotionalism. And notice the Nazi-like volkish essentialism at work here. Implied by Beck is the notion that all true Americans can tap their inner … Continue reading
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