"That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom"

Promoting his remarkably timely new book, Michael Graham writes, “OK, now we’re angry:”

It is a painful, personal irony that my new book, “That’s No Angry Mob, That’s My Mom” was released yesterday – the day after the House voted to stick us with Obamacare. Perfect timing for the book, pretty lousy for America.

I wrote it to push back against the idea that tea partiers and talk radio listeners are an angry, inchoate mob. It’s been the town hall opponents who’ve been asking pointed, specific questions while the O-bots lashed out in anger, arrogance and often hate.

Tea partiers have waved humor-laced signs like “Think Health Care’s Expensive? Wait ’Til It’s Free!” Team Obama has responded by denouncing these concerned citizens as “evil-mongers” who are “motivated by racism.”

Mary Katherine Ham did an analysis of the “tea party violence” of the infamous “Summer of Protests ’09,” when MSNBC was trying to convince us that “white supremacists” were gunning for the president. There were 10 reported incidents – seven by Obama supporters.

Given the insults these blue-collar workers, stay-at-home moms and politically-engaged retirees have suffered, I’ve been impressed by their generally friendly and unflappable response.

But they’re ready to “let the Founders’ freak flag fly!”

Related: Meanwhile, regarding the flip-side of the equation, found via Maggie’s Farm, Jonah Goldberg spots “Culture Wars for as Far as the Eye Can See.” And as part of which, Roger L. Simon explores “America the Hateful: Why the F-bomb Epidemic?”