to prominence. she s written a best selling memoir, resigned as governor of alaska and become a high profile you personality on fox news. welcome to real american stories. she is by far the most endorsement for republicans hoping to capture the new right s vote. he has the wisdom, he has the courage to lead the way. that s why i m here asking for your vote. arizona, what do you say, will you send the maverick back to the united states senate? enlisting both to palin and others on the new right, their words and language are not necessarily all that will new. let s get it together, tea party, america. let s take back our country. we are ready to take our country back. coming up, the new right s loudest voice. progressivism is the cancer in america, and it is eating our constitution.
the new right has one big advantage over right wing movements of the past. the internet. a tea party movement could never have caught on as quickly as it did without protesters all over the country logging on and sharing ideas. militia groups are active on the internet, too, with their training videos easy to download. rumors, true and false, spread viral little through popular conservative web sites and often find their way into the new right s other big asset, cable television s fox news, whose primetime hosts create a daily message of right wing protest. why would a government continue to poke you and poke you and poke you and poke you? some kind of panel telling me i cannot have health care because i m 73 years old. and i m not worth anything
reporter: eric burns is the president of media matters for america, a liberal group that burns says that rightest media, particularly fox news host, glenn beck, plays an active role the motivating and riling up the angry right. beck, who has called president obama a racist, is a hero to the right. he can get down to the level of people. he s not using big words, he s using everyday words. he s making valid comparisons with things that happen in our everyday lives. he seems to be the only one in the media right now that s saying the things that we ve been saying in our meetings, but we haven t been hearing from our leaders. he uses extremely aggressive, revolutionary, antagonistic, sometimes even violent language to define his political enemies. that s all very intentional.
concentration camps for american citizens. i wanted to debunk these fema camps. i m tired of hearing about them. i m tired of hearing i wanted to debunk them. well, we ve now for several days done research on them. i can t debunk them. rumors like this one, which beck later distanced himself from, stoked the new right s fear of federal tyranny. they give a nervous rationale to far right groups, including a new patriot organization called the oathkeepers. its members are military and police officers, both active duty and retired, who swear an oath to defend their view of the constitution, promising not to obey a list of hyothetical orders from the government. these include, in possession of martial law, the herding of american citizens into concentration camps. stewart rhodes, the founder of oathkeepers was a guest on hardball in 2009. when you put your head on the
away from you and you have less to save from your family. will this rage on the right help win elections or will it scare off voters? we will all know more in the fall with the voter reaction to this new range of voices from center right to far right, the tea parties, the birthers, the patriot groups, and the militias. but the new right, as we have seen, may not be satisfied with the election of officeholders a few notches to the right. increasingly, the anger on the right is stirred not just by a particular political party, the democrats, but by the federal government itself, and anyone whose part of it. to some on the right, and not only those who wear military garb on weekend training exercises, washington itself is viewed as a remote, even foreign capital. the elected government housed there is a tranical menace. those who work in it are agents of a hostile force, visibly preying on their freedoms.