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• Richard Kim: Conspiracies and the Tea Parties

  March 30, 2010

  Richard Kim joins us in studio to explain where the tea party movement's latest bogeyman came from, and how it plays into larger threads within the rise of the organized, angry right under the Obama administration.

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• Tea Party Conspiracies, Max Rameau, and Haiti

  March 29, 2010

  In order to respond, alas, we have to understand, and that means going through the looking glass. So wrote Richard Kim of the tea party movement's latest bogeyman--the Cloward-Piven strategy, which demagogues like Glenn Beck proclaim is the strategy for destroying America and putting in place totalitarian socialism. It sounds ridiculous, Richard notes, and that's precisely why it has such power.

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