Lighting a Fuse for Rebellion on the Right

New York Times by David Barstow | Feb. 15, 2010 (Investigative Report)

Sandpoint, Idaho — Pam Stout has not always lived in fear of her government. She remembers her years working in federal housing programs, watching government lift struggling families with job training and education. She beams at the memory of helping a Vietnamese woman get into junior college.

But all that was before the Great Recession and the bank bailouts, before Barack Obama took the White House by promising sweeping change on multiple ... Full Story »

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by Fabrice Florin - Feb. 22, 2010

Great investigative journalism from the New York Times, which spent five months researching this story. This in-depth report presents a great overview of the Tea Party movement, how it came about, who's involved in it, and why it's attracted so many Americans who have lost faith in their government.

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by Joey Baker - Feb. 23, 2010

She was happily retired, and had never been active politically. But last April, she went to her first Tea Party rally, then to a meeting of the Sandpoint Tea Party ... More »

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Not Beck's Cup of Tea

Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor by Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck | Feb. 21, 2010 (Interview)

(Video) Bill O'Reilly interviews Glenn Beck on the Factor. O' Reilly: Earlier this week the New York Times published a front page article about the tea party that linked it to a ...

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The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political Journalism

Press Think by Jay Rosen | Feb. 21, 2010 (Editorial)

(Blog Post) This sounds like politics the way our journalists narrate it, but as Packer notes, “A war or an economic collapse has a reality apart from perceptions, which imposes a ...

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4.2

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The Making of the Tea Party Movement

Time by David von Drehle | Feb. 18, 2010 (Special Report)

Whether bitter or sweetened, the tea is winning admirers. According to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, roughly 1 in 5 adult Americans identifies with the Tea Party ...

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