Oct 27 2010
At the Tea Party with Laura Flanders – Part 2
The Tea Party movement may be a loose network of ultra-conservatives that don’t always agree with one another, but they have managed to alter the political landscape in a very short time, likely affecting the outcome of next week’s election. A new book published by OR Books, and edited by journalist and writer Laura Flanders focuses on the Tea Party, its politics, and progressive responses to it. The book’s title summarizes it well: “At the Tea Party: The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right… And Why We Should Take It Seriously.” At the Tea Party has essays by Max Blumenthal, Alexander Cockburn, Lisa Duggan, Bill Fletcher, Glenn Greenwald, Arun Gupta, Chris Hedges, Katha Pollitt, Sarah Posner, Tim Wise, Alexander Zaitchik and many others. Yesterday you heard part 1 of my interview with Laura Flanders – here is the second part.
GUEST: Laura Flanders is the host and founder of GRITtv with Laura Flanders, author of the New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species, and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians. Se also writes for The Nation and The Huffington Post and is a regular contributor to MSNBC
Purchase the book online at www.ORBooks.com. Find out more about Laura Flanders and her show Grit TV at www.grittv.org.
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