The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party

I’m simply using the title of Frank Rich’s excellent article, in which he tells you all, or at any rate, most of what you need to know about who’s behind the Tea Party movement, and its nefarious history. Great that at least someone in the New York Times is engaging in some honest to goodness truth-telling about these all-American extremists.

Update 30 August 2010

Rich himself mentions this essay in his article, and provides a link, but here it is again, in case you’ve not seen it: Jane Meyer’s

Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama

What, if anything can be done? For starters, websites need to be set up that identify, in detail, what products and services are most closely associated with the Murdochs and the Koch brothers so they can be boycotted around the world.

Fox News and the ‘New’ Racists in America

Here’s an article worth looking at—strikes this blogger that it provides a real x-ray of what the Republican Party, with Murdoch’s Fox News as an active collaborator, is up to.

The article is Frank Rich’s There’s a Battle Outside and It Is Still Ragin’