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9781594519444

Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics

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    9781594519444

  • ISBN10:

    1594519447

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-05-30
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Crashing the Tea Partychallenges conventional dogmas related to the most recent #xE2;#xAC;Smovement#xE2;#xAC; of choice of conservative America and the mass media. This book undertakes a critical journalistic and scholarly examination of the Tea Party at the national and local level. Through firsthand observation of local Tea Party chapters, Street and DiMaggio uncover details about the Tea Party that have remained largely unexplored. Is the Tea Party a genuine social movement or a top-down interest group created largely by the mass media, Republican Party, and corporate funding? Street and DiMaggio explore this question systematically, closely documenting their results. They show how mass media reporting and commentary affect public opinion of the Tea Party and its preferred policy whipping boy, health care reform, in particular. This book fills the gap in public understanding of how social movements fit within the larger political ideologies on the left and right, and the growing role of media in influencing public opinion on major issues of the day.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Making Tea from the Top Downp. vii
The Tea Party Does Not Exist: Reflections on a Not-So-New ôMovementö and the Deeply Conservative Essence of U.S. Political Culturep. 1
ôTurning the World Upside Downö: From the Original Tea Party to the Current Masqueradep. 27
Tea Party ôSuper Republicansö: Who They Are, What They Believep. 41
Tea Party Racismp. 75
Return of ôthe Paranoid Style in American Politicsö: Authoritarianism and Hyperignorance in Tea Party Nationp. 101
Astroturf to the Core: Reflections on a Mass-Mediated ôMovementöp. 127
Elections 2010: The Democrats' Midterm Disaster, the Tea Party, and the Challenge to Progressivesp. 145
Prospects for a Progressive Revivalp. 167
Notesp. 183
Acknowledgmentsp. 229
Indexp. 231
About the Authorsp. 239
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