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Digby: CNN Hires CPAC Star Dana Loesch, Who Acts Out Violent 'Metaphors' Against Democrats


Metaphors For Dummies

This is yet another fine contributor CNN has hired as part of their "best political team on television:

Watch: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/473148/cnn_hires_cpac_star_dana_loesch%2C_who_acts_out_violent_%27metaphors%27_against_democrats/

Loesch has been having a lot of fun in recent weeks with the idea that violent right wing political rhetoric has anything whatsoever to do with the spate of "isolated incidents" of real violence around the country. And for good reason. As you can see by that video she's quite the bomb thrower and would be left without a career if society decided that they didn't care much for her special brand of politics.

Her origins are in the St Louis Tea Party which is one of the more colorful of the genre. Bloggers at the St Louis Activist Hub has been following her for some time:

Loesch has started a cute movement on Twitter called No Metaphors, ostensibly mocking the idea that nonstop right-wing extremist rhetoric might play a role in anti-government violence...Given Loesch's new fascination with metaphors that I'm sure she'll be pitching as she does her whine-to-the-media-about-how-the-tea-party-are-the-real-victims-here tour, I thought it might be worthwhile to go back to one of Loesch's most interesting metaphors. ..............(more)

more at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/473148/cnn_hires_cpac_star_dana_loesch%2C_who_acts_out_violent_%27metaphors%27_against_democrats/