Blowing Smoke - Michael Wolraich [0]
Title Page
Dedication
PREFACE
Chapter 1 - HOW BILL O’REILLY SAVED CHRISTMAS
“A Very Secret Plan”
“Superior Analysis”
The Persecution Formula
The Plot Heard around the World
Conservatives Gone Wild!
The Regular Schmo
Don’t Tread on Me
Persecution Politics
Chapter 2 - WEEP FOR YOUR CHILDREN
A Very Brief History of Corrupting the Youth
The Segregation Academies
Kicking the Sleeping Dog
Nailing Jell-O to a Tree
Back to School
“The Most Dangerous Religion in America”
“Is Humanism Molesting Your Child?”
Judge W. Brevard Hand, “Defender of the Constitution and Religious Liberty”
Secular Humanism’s Spawn
Chapter 3 - MORE OR LESS NORMAL PEOPLE
“He Hates (Persecutes) Me”
“The Paranoid Style in American Politics”
Projecting Intolerance
Chapter 4 - ATTACK OF THE GAY FASCISTS
The Gay Agenda
Save Our Children
The Homosexual Explosion
Gay Fascists
Thought Crimes
Chapter 5 - MAD AS HELL?
Don’t Blame the Stupids
The Angry Right
It’s the Economy, Stupid (Or Is It?)
Fear Leads to Anger, Anger Leads to Hate
Paranoia for Fun and Profit
Chapter 6 - OBAMA’S AMERICA
The Good Ol’ Days
A New Breed of Racism
The Fightin’ Little Judge
The Southern Strategy
“Discrimination in Reverse”
The Great Communicator
The Exeter-Yale GOP
Brown Becomes the New Black
National Suicide
La Reconquista
A Brief Interlude
The Change We’ve Been Waiting For
The Maverick
“Forced Reparations”
A Wise Latina
The Racist Regime
Chapter 7 - THE SWEETEST OF DRUGS
The Inequality Taboo
The Intolerance Taboo
“Sweet Crack-Pipe of Moral Indignation”
A Society of Archie Bunkers
Spreading the Word
Chapter 8 - RETURN OF THE INTERNATIONAL JEW
“The Jewish Problem”
The Conspiracy Theory of Society
The International Jew
Right-wing Journalism
“The Guy That James Bond Goes After”
“The Shadow of the Court Jew”
“Lord of the Democrats”
Chapter 9 - A GOAT FOR AZAZEL
Spanking the Scapegoat
Dawn of the Supervillain
Chapter 10 - THE PROGRESSIVE HUNTER
A Legendary Crank
“The Goal Is Globalization”
Czar Wars
Angry Black Men
The Revolution
A Reichstag Moment
”Everything Is Connected”
The Progressives
Progressive Hunter
Storyteller
Chapter 11 - AN APPEALING WONDROUS STORY
Rodeo Clown
Frame Confusion
A Narrative Helps Make Sense of Chaos
Metanarratives and the Persecution Frame
Chapter 12 - SECOND AMENDMENT REMEDIES
Jackbooted Thugs
“The Slickest, Most Aggressive Anti-Gun White House in History”
“What Color Star Will They Pin on Our Coats?”
Refreshing the Tree of Liberty
“RELOAD!”
“Let’s Roll”
Chapter 13 - THE TENT OF FREEDOM
The New Right
The Republican Revolution
“The Vito Corleone of the House”
“We’re Watching Their Votes”
Something about Sarah
“The Shout Heard ’Round the World”
Getting Rid of RINOs
Chapter 14 - WAKE UP, AMERICA
A Troublesome Movement
A New Class-Consciousness
“The Jackass Quotient”
“Nuances Don’t Work on the Radio”
Boycott Beck
Freedom of Speech
Connecting with Others
“Every Good Christian”
A Few Good Men
“Scorn and Derision”
“No Sense of Decency”
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Acknowledgements
INDEX
Copyright Page
To Freedom, the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, Fox News,
America except the elitist parts, Capitalism, Non-gay marriage,
Being born in the U.S. instead of Kenya like some people,
Guns, Mooseburgers, Freedom again, Christmas, and
Glenn Beck’s ferocious chalkboard.
Not necessarily in that order.
PREFACE
“WHY IS IT OKAY TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST WHITE MALES?” demanded MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan, his voice shrill with outrage. His colleague Rachel Maddow had invited him onto her liberal news and opinion show to discuss the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, but the debate quickly shifted to affirmative action. Warming instantly to the topic, Buchanan indignantly denounced the