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Bill Berkowitz: Understanding the Tea Party movement and new anti-Obama Right Wing

Air Date: 
01/05/2010
Segment Host: 
Tammy Bang Luu

dallasteaparty_protestbabe_1.jpgThe election of Barack Obama has clearly emboldened the grassroots Right Wing in the US. From disruptions of town hall meetings on health care to the Birthers to the Tea Party movement, the Right Wing has developed aggressive new tactics and seen the emergence of some new forces. How does the "new new" Right relate to the established conservative organizations and the Republican Party? How central are the politics of racism and xenophobia and the fact of a Black president to this movement? Bill Berkowitz, a freelance journalist who has studied and written about the Right wing for years, helps dissect these new currents in conversation with host Tammy Bang Luu.

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Bill Berkowitz on Tea Party Movement

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