{"id":12895,"date":"2010-03-30T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=12895"},"modified":"2010-03-30T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:55:51","slug":"is-the-left-responding-to-the-tea-party-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2010\/03\/30\/is-the-left-responding-to-the-tea-party-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Left Responding to the Tea Party Movement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-033010\/2010_03_30_berlet.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-033010\/2010_03_30_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/img\/2010\/03\/25\/alg_gun_sarah-palin.jpg\" alt=\"sarah palin is a nut\" \/>Thousands of conservative Americans gathered over the weekend in Searchlight, Nevada, hometown of Democratic Senator Harry Reid, to kick off a national tour that will culminate in Washington DC on April 15th, tax day. Under the banner of the right-wing so-called Tea Party movement, activists carrying signs that read Don&#8217;t Tread On Me, rallied to condemn the Obama Presidency. Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, a Tea-Party favorite, addressed the crowds defending her recent rhetoric loaded with violent, firearms-related imagery where she urged her supporters to set their sights on &#8220;targets,&#8221; and to &#8220;never retreat, instead reload.&#8221; The provocative language coming from the right is not easily dismissed in light of yesterday&#8217;s charges against a Michigan-based right-wing Christian militia for conspiracy to murder police officers in an attempt to set of an anti-government insurgency. Chip Berlet, a Senior Analyst with the Boston-based Political Research Associates, has studied the spectrum of right-wing movements for many years. I recently ran into to him at the Annual Left Forum in New York. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Chip Berlet, Senior Analyst with Political Research Associates<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Thousands of conservative Americans gathered over the weekend in Searchlight, Nevada, hometown of Democratic Senator Harry Reid, to kick off a national tour that will culminate in Washington DC on April 15th, tax day. Under the banner of the right-wing so-called Tea Party movement, activists carrying signs that read Don&#8217;t Tread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}