<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><DIV>Many elite Americans--mostly liberals--read the Sunday NYT in order to be told what to think. Today Frank Rich told them that the Tea Party movement has no basis in genuine dissatisfaction, including antiwar sentiment (foreign policy is not mentioned in the article). Liberal Rich throws in his lot with the "mainstream" GOP perspective:</DIV>
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<DIV>"No less an establishment conservative observer than the Wall Street Journal editorialist <A title="Rabinowitz’s recent editorial in which she describes Paul’s followers." href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703444804575071330757893248.html"><FONT color=#004276>Dorothy Rabinowitz describes Paul’s followers</FONT></A> as “conspiracy theorists, anti-government zealots, 9/11 truthers, and assorted other cadres of the obsessed and deranged.”"</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28rich.html?ref=opinion">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28rich.html?ref=opinion</A></DIV>
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<DIV>From Israeli Ephraim Karsh, we get a racist view of the Islamic world, and the case for an attack on Iran:</DIV>
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<P>"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s two-track plan — discussion with Tehran while at the same time lining up meaningful sanctions — is fine as far as it goes. But a military strike must remain a serious option: there is no peaceful way to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, stemming as they do from its imperialist brand of national-Islamism."</P>
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<P><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28karsh.html?ref=opinion">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28karsh.html?ref=opinion</A></P>
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<P>This is scary "mainstream" stuff, and should be taken seriously.</P>
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<P>DG</P></DIV></div><br>
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