GRITtv: Chip Berlet: Tea Party Isn't The Fringe

Chip Berlet, longtime researcher and reporter on right-wing populism, explains that the tea party and the religious right are Republicans' base.

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[HulksHeroes]

Exactly! How can you differentiate teabaggers from repukkkes?...evangelical nutcakes from repukkkes?....white supremicists from repukkkes? Simple answer, you can't.

They are one in the same. I realize there are some rational, sincere republicans that are sitting on the sidelines, watching their party being taken over by these idiots; but they are ALL repukkkes. Ignorant morons. It's an illness. We should pity them as well as be disgusted with them.

[lildoeidgrl45]

Repugs and tea baggers are one in the same..Dilusional morons!

[knightschwartz]

mass immigration is destroying the west. The left use's mass immigration to bring in democratic voters.

[DaHonestAbe]

@mizzoulibertarian Your tone aside, I understand you don't like the way that the tea party can be portrayed. But now you know what some of us in the anti war movement felt like when we were being slandered. And not all the language (in either movement) is slanderous. Some of it is simply concerned criticism. So the "back off" tone doesn't help anyone. Speaking in the language of violence is a slippery slope. Believe me, I've seen it happen. But I get the tea party concerns, whole heartedly.

[NMghost223]

@lildoeidgrl45 people preaching the false left/right paradigm are dillusional morons!!

[NMghost223]

@HulksHeroes youre an idiot, first there are several different tea party groups not just one and 2nd not everyone is a republican or rightwing or religious.. you are stuck in the false left/right paradigm and youre brainwashed.. i attend every tea party rally in my city regardless what group it is and i hand out antiNWO material and wake people up, i hated bush from day one and obama is just bush 3 so suck dick you nazi asshole

[mizzoulibertarian]

II am a Ron Paul supporter who donated money in 2007 to Ron Pauls campaign during an on line fund raising event we called a tea party. Never been to an actual tea party event. But I would warn the left that the slanders they are pushing on law abiding patriotic Americans is excessive. And they should be cautious because they are denigrating my fellow citizens. (who I may disagree with on Sarah Palin) If a fight comes you will not like the outcome. Back off