Ted Talk Outline: Four Faces of the Tea Party

https://www.audacy.com/kxnt/hosts/the-glenn-beck-program

https://www.latimes.com/world/la-et-wink14-2008oct14-story.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-hospitalized-stroke-live-stream-vide0-2020-9

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2011/06/30/michele-bachmann-on-board-with-tax-holiday/?sh=1c9f6982167d

 

Outline

 

INTRO

• Gain attention-make a statement about the current time and challenges presented (get some laughs)
• Guide it to the tea party-explain briefly how it informed the transition to the state of politics now
• Introduce main players-Beck, Bachman, Palin, and Paul (special note-from my home of Texas) by name and epithet
• Cite reason for specific selections-https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/tea-party-canvass/

 

BODY

• RON PAUL, father of RAND-THE ELDER STATESMEN

• Brief History
• Give the highlights 
• Work through the Tea Party Express, presidential runs
• Talk briefly about Rand, current anti-vaxxer phase

 

MICHELE BACHMANN-THE LAWYER

• Brief History
• Give the highlights
• Hit on the Muslim Brotherhood, Tea Pary Express, Competition with Paul Ryan, sewing dissension in Republican Party
• Presidential candidacy, Hose Ethics Investigation, retirement

 

GLENN BECK-THE THEORIST

• Brief History
• Give the highlights (No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you, that’s Glenn Beck, not Alex Jones)
• Need to dedicate time to Obama theories, Books, GEORGE SOROS, TheBlaze
• Trump comments-didn’t like him, admitted to feeling bad for helping destroy political discourse, now likes Trump and enjoying political discourse being destroyed

 

SARAH PALIN-THE ONE, THE ONLY, THE MAD HATTER, THE ALASKAN JOKER HERSELF

• Brief History
• Give the highlights
• Governorship, 2008 election, being a deciding factor in McCain losing
• Campaigns for Tea Party candidates 2010-14, Fox News commentary
• Reality TV, endorsement of Trump
• Defamation lawsuit, possible Senate run in 2022

 

CONCLUSION

• Wrap up, rephrase general statements including all four
• Be serious for a change-hammer home the importance of history, and how current affairs were entirely predictable and preventable
• Lighten up again-even if people like these four stick around, at least they’re there to be laughed at