The Unauthorized 9/12 Teabagger Tour

The Unauthorized 9/12 Teabagger Tour

The Unauthorized 9/12 Teabagger Tour

Nation contributor Max Blumenthal captures the protest’s atmosphere of ignorance by interviewing the rally’s most delusional attendees.

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Nation contributor Max Blumenthal (author of
Republican Gomorrah) teams up with AlterNet to present a short
documentary on the 9/12 tea party
protests. Blumenthal captures the protest’s atmosphere of ignorance by
interviewing the rally’s most delusional attendees.
Some of the highlights include die-hard Glenn Beck fans, birthers, and a
man who claims Obama is “the biggest nazi in the world.” The icing on the cake is that some of these protesters don’t even have health insurance (or pay “up the wazoo” for it).

To read an excerpt from Republican Gomorrah click here.

—Alana Levinson

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Max BlumenthalMax Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Huffington Post, the Independent Film Channel, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English and other publications. He is the author of the bestselling book Republican Gomorrah. His new book, just published, is Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel (Nation Books).


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