The more I read about the Tea Party movement, the more these guys scare the shit out of me.
Today, I posted a review on Whisperin’ & Hollerin’ for an album by a late-blooming American folk singer named Chip Murray. On first hearing, the album, called Wide Awake, sounds like a straightforward mix of songs about personal growth and political protest.
It is that but digging into the background of the artist reveals he is part of an online group aligned to the Tea Party with the sinister name – Big Dawg Music Mafia (“Where ‘conservative’ is cool“).
This group of musicians, authors and poets see themselves as ‘cultural warriors’ redefining ‘pop culture’ from a right-wing perspective. One of their prominent members is a woman named Lisa Rei Norton who has posted a video of her singing a dire song called Enemy Number One which taunts those who dare to accuse Tea Party goers of being racists, rednecks, reactionaries etc. She sings, by way of defence that “We are proud, God-fearing Americans, Who cling to our faith and our guns”. I’m not sure about you, but I don’t find this reassuring. Continue reading
