Wednesday, September 15, 2010

From the US comes a nasty whiff


Sarah Palin has a serious, instinctive gift for connecting with the bemused and the credulous that it would be folly to underestimate

By Matthew Norman
The Independent

"....Watching the Tea Party crush centrist Republicans in race after race regardless of the damage this will do the GOP in November, noting the fanaticism at the rallies headlined by Palin and Beck, and recalling from his own childhood the power of crazed but charismatic rhetoric over a middle class grown poor and confused in Wehrmacht Germany, Noam Chomsky sniffs fascism on the breeze.

If that sounds hysterical, please God that it is. But something dark and hateful is stirring in America, and it seems certain to grow as long as unemployment and poverty persist...."

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