Tag: Twilight Zone
Heartland Institute Crashes Through The Overton Window
A Heartland Institute billboard along Chicago’s Eisenhower Expressway Last October, in Twilight Zone Candidates, we noted that the then current crop of GOP presidential candidates were forced to out-crazy each other in order to secure the support of the extremist wing of the Rethuglican electorate. We agreed with the conventional wisdom that once the nomination was settled, as it is …
Twilight Zone Candidates
Watching the likes of Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich these days, I feel like I’ve been ‘ported to The Twilight Zone. In the classic intro to the original Rod Serling series, the shattering window pane is the Overton Window of radical right wing craziness, pushed off the edge of the …
Attacking Obama From the Twilight Zone
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices – to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own. -Rod Serling, “The …
