Michael Graham (1) (1963–)
Auteur van Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War
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Michael Graham spent six years on the national comedy club circuit opening for performers like Jerry Seinfeld and Robin Williams, then spent the next six years as a Republican political consultant
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At the heart of his book, Graham uses his own mother's participation in the tea party movement to illustrate the absurdity of anti-tea party stereotypes and rhetoric. His mother was as surprised as anyone by the characterization of her civic activism as racist, privileged, violent and dangerous. (As Graham says, his mother IS dangerous, but only when she tries to parallel park.) Mrs. Graham not only seems to be an extremely nice lady, but she is hardly privileged, having come from a poor family and worked for everything she ever got. Far from being racist, when she moved from her native California to South Carolina at the height of civil rights unrest she was appalled by the level of racism she encountered and acted against it.
Using a sea of humor, an arsenal of facts and a dumpster-full of over-the-top anti-tea party quotes from prominent members of the ruling class in politics and media, Graham argues that the tea party is the embodiment of traditional American values, and it is rather the Democratic party with its elitist policy mavens--who cannot demonstrate that they are competent to run an entire society from their Washington, DC catbird seats and yet try to--who are the extremist goofballs.
BTW, Graham mentions the sign that compared Obama to Hitler at a tea party rally and notes that leftists ever since have cited it as evidence that 1Cthat 19s what they 19re all like 1D even though there was only one such sign. In fact, it turns out that that sign, which was not even carried around, was fixed to a book stall, which was run by a follower of the late American fascist Lyndon LaRouche. At the rally in question, only a few participants perused the stall 19s wares, but most walked without a buy once they saw what the guy was peddling. A similar 14or, who knows, perhaps the same 14LaRouche-supporter later set up a stall at Occupy Wall Street. (No sales figures available for comparison.)
One painful note is Graham 19s enthusiasm for Republican senator Scott Brown who amazed everyone across the spectrum with his win of the seat formerly held by Edward 1CTed 1D Kennedy. Brown 19s commitment to opposing government over-reach has since been less than inspiring, but Graham, writing five years ago, seems to have a point worth not missing: a conservative message that at least seems genuine can actually win votes even in a notoriously leftward state.… (meer)