{"id":662856,"date":"2010-02-12T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76486"},"modified":"2010-02-12T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:03:09","slug":"before-she-was-a-truther-debra-medina-was-worried-about-brainwashing-and-bilderbergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/662856","title":{"rendered":"Before She Was a Truther, Debra Medina Was Worried About Brainwashing and Bilderbergers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m really fascinated by the rapid rise and apparent fall<\/a> of Debra Medina, the small-time Republican activist who surged into the mid-20s in her race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Texas, then whiffed on a chance<\/a> to distance herself from 9\/11 conspiracy theories in an interview with Glenn Beck. And what it suggests to me is that the Tea Party enthusiasm has elevated — temporarily, it seems — some candidates who, in previous election cycles, would have remained in obscurity and gotten some fraction of the vote without much scrutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take Adam Andrzejewski<\/a>, the Illinois gubernatorial candidate who ran a pretty platitudinous campaign but aggressively sought support from Tea Party groups. Take some of the small-scale House candidates, like the three people challenging Ron Paul, who’ve gotten media attention for minor campaigning and fundraising. Or take Medina. For months, she had been courting hard-right and fringe support and doing a pretty good job. In October she appeared on Texas-based, conspiracy-minded radio host Alex Jones’s radio show, and the interview delved again and again into bizarre topics. In this clip<\/a>, at 9:20, Jones rants about how law enforcement has been trained to go after patriotic Americans.<\/p>\n

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MEDINA: We’ve got a big problem in Texas. We’ve got a lot of work to do, to re-educate… I’ve seen some activity…<\/p>\n

JONES: We’ve got Soviet brainwashing in the state police.<\/p>\n

MEDINA: We do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At other points in the interview (cut into four piece on YouTube), Medina complains that “Texas hasn’t lifted a finger to nullify anything under [Gov. Rick] Perry’s leadership.”<\/p>\n

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We need the Texas legislature nullifying law and we need the Texas governor interposing against federal law enforcement where it oversteps the bounds of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But the most revealing part of the interview might be the question posed in this clip<\/a> at 8:30.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Would she go on record saying she’s not a Bilderberg and she would not support what Rick and Kay do?<\/p>\n

MEDINA: I think I’m on record loud and clear in lots of places all over Texas saying I’m not a Bilderberger and I in no way support Rick and Kay.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Compare that to her answer to Glenn Beck<\/a> on 9\/11.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t have all of the evidence, there, Glenn. So I don\u2019t\u2026 I am not in a place \u2014 I have not been out publicly questioning that. I think some very good questions have been raised in that regard. There\u2019s some very good arguments. And I think the American people have not see all of the evidence there. So I have not taken a position on that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think because the mainstream media were slow to cover the Tea Parties as anything but a ridiculous joke, there’s been a lot of overcompensating that imbues these activists with fresh, bold, out-of-nowhere political tactics. But that the fact is that some people on the political fringes have made lateral moves from Alex Jones-listening or Obama birth certificate-sleuthing or Bilderberg-obsessing into the Tea Party Movement. And if Glenn Beck hadn’t decided to see how far Medina wanted to go with this, she’d be on track to get into a gubernatorial run-off. (I think Beck has threaded this needle brilliantly, obsessing over some fringe theories while ruling some, like birtherism and trutherism, totally out of bounds on his show.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m really fascinated by the rapid rise and apparent fall of Debra Medina, the small-time Republican activist who surged into the mid-20s in her race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Texas, then whiffed on a chance to distance herself from 9\/11 conspiracy theories in an interview with Glenn Beck. And what it suggests to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Mre","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}