Will McAvoy, the anchor on HBO’s Newsroom, is frequently more honest and ethical than most television journalists in the “real” world. In the season finale of the program McAvoy does it again with an editorial that enumerates the characteristics of the Tea-publican Party:
- Ideological purity
- Compromise as weakness
- A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism
- Denying science
- Unmoved by facts
- Undeterred by new information
- A hostile fear of progress
- A demonization of education
- A need to control women’s bodies
- Severe xenophobia
- Tribal mentality
- Intolerance of dissent
- A pathological hatred of the U.S. government
And McAvoy concludes by saying that…
“They can call themselves the Tea Party. They can call themselves conservatives and they can even call themselves Republicans, though Republicans certainly shouldn’t. But we should call them what they are. The American Taliban.”
It’s never been said better. Here’s the video:
That was a great clip, I loved it! If that doesn’t describe the tea-publican party of today I don’t know what does.
I never thought David Brooks would make me swoon. What do you suppose he’s been smoking?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/opinion/brooks-the-real-romney.html