As vital as Episode 2 was, Episode 3 of @onthemedia’s outstanding #purpleproject features @AnandWrites, who, with his elegant precision, explains just how where we are now was the result of the “most successful intellectual campaigns in history.”
@onthemedia @AnandWrites I can’t stress enough how every single person in this country should hear, and have explained to them, exactly what Episodes 2 & 3 covers in only 20 minutes. If everyone reading this learns how to discuss these things, it might have a profound impact on our … 1/2
@onthemedia @AnandWrites narratives & conversations. I could even see @anandwrites explaining these basic ideas to 7th graders. He’s really easy on the ears, and his gift for illuminating why these ideas are vital to understand is just unmatched by anyone I’ve heard or read. 2/2
@onthemedia @AnandWrites I was hammering people with the #Powell Memo in the earliest days of Twitter (consolidated here: shoqvalue.com/powellmemo), because I realized that there was finally a way to broadcast explainers without a media platform. @anandwrites is going to help a whole new … 1/10 
@onthemedia @AnandWrites audience discover that seminal work of corporate activism. It explains so much about why we got here. It wasn’t a “vast right wing conspiracy,” as @hillaryClinton called it, only because it was all being done in the daylight. They used money and media manipulation … 2/10
@onthemedia @AnandWrites @HillaryClinton to completely refactor American ideas of government, society, and capitalism, and advance an agenda that would make corporations our one and only overlords and saviors. Virtually everything bad that’s happened to us, from the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and … 3/10
@onthemedia @AnandWrites @HillaryClinton helmet laws; defeating the ERA; Rush Limbaugh and @newtgingrich willfully destroying Congress; @jiminhofe’s global warming denialism; the Iraq War; Birtherism; the Tea Party, FoxNews, and everything that led to Trumpism. They can all be laid at the feet of this … 4/10
@onthemedia @AnandWrites @HillaryClinton @newtgingrich @JimInhofe movement and its truly devious funders, operators and bag men.
I’ve always wanted @maddow, @joyannreid and @alivelshi (with @chrisLhayes doing town hall tie-ins) to do a 4 hour show over 2 nights, on this entire “corporate makeover of government movement” that had … 5/10
I’ve always wanted @maddow, @joyannreid and @alivelshi (with @chrisLhayes doing town hall tie-ins) to do a 4 hour show over 2 nights, on this entire “corporate makeover of government movement” that had … 5/10
@onthemedia @AnandWrites @HillaryClinton @newtgingrich @JimInhofe @maddow @JoyAnnReid @AliVelshi @chrislhayes earlier roots, but really took flight after the Powell Memo gave them a road map in the 1970s, explaining how they could mold America to their liking. And it worked brilliantly.
The @MSNBC hosts have all covered it in bits and pieces of the story over the years, … 6/10
The @MSNBC hosts have all covered it in bits and pieces of the story over the years, … 6/10
@onthemedia @AnandWrites @HillaryClinton @newtgingrich @JimInhofe @maddow @JoyAnnReid @AliVelshi @chrislhayes @MSNBC but together, they and Anand could document all the paths and nodes leading from Barry Goldwater and Pete Coors, thru Paul Weyrich and Orrin Hatch; Ed Crane, David Horowitz, @GroverNorquist and @FrankLuntz; and with depressing but important detours to the odious, … 7/10
@onthemedia @AnandWrites @HillaryClinton @newtgingrich @JimInhofe @maddow @JoyAnnReid @AliVelshi @chrislhayes @MSNBC @GroverNorquist @FrankLuntz ethics-free hit-men like Dr.Evil (Rick Berman), and @JohnStossel; and of course, the case and impact of all their “astroturfed” trickery like the infamous “McDonald’s Coffee” narrative.
In service of the plutocrats, these have been just a few of the greasy … 8/10
In service of the plutocrats, these have been just a few of the greasy … 8/10
@onthemedia @AnandWrites @HillaryClinton @newtgingrich @JimInhofe @maddow @JoyAnnReid @AliVelshi @chrislhayes @MSNBC @GroverNorquist @FrankLuntz @JohnStossel mechanics of the massive conservative retooling and bodywork done to our politics and culture. Much like Lee Atwater and Roger Stone, their fingerprints and tactics are littered all over the past 40 years of the the conservative mauling of American life.
Their … 9/10
Their … 9/10
@onthemedia @AnandWrites @HillaryClinton @newtgingrich @JimInhofe @maddow @JoyAnnReid @AliVelshi @chrislhayes @MSNBC @GroverNorquist @FrankLuntz @JohnStossel story has never been adequately told. It’s time. 10/10
@onthemedia @AnandWrites @HillaryClinton @newtgingrich @JimInhofe @maddow @JoyAnnReid @AliVelshi @chrislhayes @MSNBC @GroverNorquist @FrankLuntz @JohnStossel If you like this idea, reply to the top tweet in this thread and let @MSNBC know. I’d ask @CNN and other networks, but we know that isn’t going to happen. They both plutocrat blood in their veins, but @MSNBC is the only network that can bite the hand that feeds … 1/2
@onthemedia @AnandWrites @HillaryClinton @newtgingrich @JimInhofe @maddow @JoyAnnReid @AliVelshi @chrislhayes @MSNBC @GroverNorquist @FrankLuntz @JohnStossel @CNN them, just a wee bit. They’ve done it before. 2/2
