February 5, 2012
“President Reagan’s oily Arab pals are a bunch of back stabbers,” Ed Anger, Weekly World News, November 24, 1981. One reaction: The more things change, the more they stay the same. 1981 was two years after Brezhnev sent troops into Afghanistan. November 1981 was a few months after Operation Opera, in which Israeli forces blew up a nuclear reactor being built in Iraq. Another reaction: Ed Anger’s origin was not as a gleeful neo-con. He was originally conceived as a furious populist. He was too irate to toe any party line. Somehow, the ascendancy (and subsequent decline) of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck seem to have blurred that line in the media discourse. Whither, furious populism?

“President Reagan’s oily Arab pals are a bunch of back stabbers,” Ed Anger, Weekly World News, November 24, 1981.

One reaction: The more things change, the more they stay the same. 1981 was two years after Brezhnev sent troops into Afghanistan. November 1981 was a few months after Operation Opera, in which Israeli forces blew up a nuclear reactor being built in Iraq.

Another reaction: Ed Anger’s origin was not as a gleeful neo-con. He was originally conceived as a furious populist. He was too irate to toe any party line. Somehow, the ascendancy (and subsequent decline) of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck seem to have blurred that line in the media discourse. Whither, furious populism?

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