http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/7514/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/book-critic-kakutani-beck-fans-moved-threat-black-president <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Charming: Book critic Kakutani on the Tea Party movement, composed of among other things &quot;militia members, Ayn Randers, Limbaugh &#039;ditto heads,&#039; Glenn Beck fanatics, birthers, Birchers, and supporters of Sarah Palin and Ron Paul.&quot; Those Beck fanatics are motivated by &quot;his shameless emotional appeals to his audience&#039;s deepest fears about change and the threat of the Other (be it a black president, Mexican immigrants or East Coast liberals).&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Times book critic Michiko Kakutani really liked liberal Philadelphia Inquirer journalist Will Bunch's book "The Backlash," his paranoid-sounding attack on Tea Party America.<br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/book-critic-kakutani-beck-fans-moved-threat-black-president" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch "TeaParty "TheBacklash Books liberalmediabias MichikoKakutani NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias TimesWatch WillBunch Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:42:00 +0000 admin 7808 at http://archive2.mrc.org