I Gotcher Populism Fer Ye
by digby
[Limbaugh] devoted the remainder of the show to expressing outrage at Congressman Henry Waxman’s committee hearing looking into corporations’ claims about the detrimental effect health care reform will have on them. Deviating only to remark that seeing a brunette on the Fox News Channel must be an “April Fools,” Limbaugh repeatedly warned that this hearing is just the beginning of “statism,” that we are now “watching” “Stalinist[s]” at work, and that Castro and Obama are the “same thing.” He advised the CEOs attending this hearing to “fire back with both barrels.”
You’ll notice that our sweet little teabagger lady also thinks we’ve “demonized” business and that they are regulated too much. The current wingnut “populism” holds that the government has been infilitrated by a foreign communist — a Stalinesque figure who happens to be black and is taking over the private sector in order to enslave the God Fearing Real Americans. They used to be known as Birchers, but Teabagger is so much more modern and sexy.
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