re: #111 The Ghost of a Flea

The entertainment wing?

Ha…no. That itself is a revision. Angry Southerners, Birchers, and ultra-Christians were working the corner of “Angry” and “Self-pitying” long before FOX News sparked to life. Indeed, it’s a calculated revision to shift the blame off the “serious” GOP insiders that encouraged Bullshit Voltron to assemble.

This is what tall tales of welfare queens with Cadillacs looks like, thirty+ years on.

Interesting. I would trace it back somewhat later, to the rise of the evil, cynical politics of Lee Atwater. Reagan may have danced around feeding the narrative, but Atwater really jammed it into a higher gear and floored the bitch with the whole Willie Horton meme.