TYT Now: Rick Perlstein Interview and Rick Warren Tweeting for the Rich
Think Progress pointed out, the half-full Rick Perry prayer rally was on the same day – down the street from an event for poor Texans to get free school supplies, uniforms and immunizations. The 100,000 person event was so over capacity it was turning people away . There seems to be a theme here. The poor have no more famous an advocate than Jesus Christ but the mega-churches seem to be focusing on the mega-donors and the mega-rich. Case in point: Rick Warren. Last week he tweeted a hard-right (and incorrect) talking point about how half of Americans pay no taxes . This coming from a guy whose the leader of a non-profit (think tax exempt) church in affluent Orange County. Above is a video from my show, a The Young Turks spin-off, TYT Now talking about this divide. It’s a disconnect that gets worse in countries where wealth distribution is stark. In the same show we talked to C&L reader, author Rick Perlstein about the right-wing, conservative women and the effort to scare up the votes for 2012. “I’m writing the third book in my trilogy about how these guys [GOP] took over the country,” says Perlstein. If you guys have any guests you like to see interviewed let me know! Here’s our Facebook page .
TYT Now: Rick Perlstein Interview and Rick Warren Tweeting for the Rich
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on August 9, 2011. Filed under