#birchers

[howstrangethemusicsoundstome]

Decided to spend the rest of my recovery time reading Matthew Dallek's book about the Birchers. Barely in and already time is a flat circle.

[n0thingiscool]

(via [On This Day] Bob Dylan Walked Off The Ed Sullivan Show In Protest)

[theamericanbear]

So, here's Steve King from Iowa going apeshit. Forget the facts, bring out the ideological blinders:

But the second most sovereign thing we have is our health. Our bodies, our health, the management of it has been nationalized by President Obama in Obamacare. He nationalized your skin and everything inside it and he put a 10 percent tax on the outside if you go to the tanning salon.

Obamacare has got to be ripped out by the roots. [applause] Obamacare is a malignant tumor in our culture, our society, and our civilization. It’s got to be ripped out by the roots so there’s no vestige of it left behind, not one particle of DNA of Obamacare left behind because if we leave it, it will grow, it will regenerate, it will metastasize as this tumor is now. And it feeds on your freedom and liberty.

This should be read.

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch have been dominant financiers for conservative front groups and nonprofits for nearly three decades. Their money has flowed to organizations dedicated to lobbying for corporate and upper income tax cuts, as well as to groups responsible for mobilizing Tea Party rallies against President Obama. But the Koch family’s association with fringe right-wing groups began a generation earlier with Fred Koch, the patriarch of the clan.

Fred not only founded the company now known as Koch Industries, he also was a founding member of the John Birch Society. As a founding board member, Fred helped engineer a hysterical wave of attacks on labor, intellectuals, public education, liberal clergy members, and other pillars of society he viewed as a threat. Birchers decried everyone from former President Eisenhower to water utility administrators as pawns in a global communist conspiracy. In the last two years, as the Koch name has become synonymous with right-wing plutocracy in the United States, the Koch family has played down its relation to the Birchers.

However, the New American, the official mouthpiece of the John Birch Society, published a piece this morning celebrating Fred and the Koch family’s pivotal role in developing the group. [...]