Tag Archives: Ken Kesey

Kesey, Spokesman for Reactionary Men

By Robin Bates | Published: April 18, 2022

“One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” anticipates rightwing attacks on women and people of color.

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Limbaugh’s Clinton-Ratched Comparison

By Robin Bates | Published: March 30, 2016

Rightwing radio host Rush Limbaugh regularly compares Hillary Clinton to Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and, in so doing, can be said to have paved the way for misogynist Donald Trump. If it’s Trump vs. Clinton in the general election, things will get ugly.

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Rebelling against Big Nurse’s Nanny State

By Robin Bates | Published: April 19, 2011

If Hillary Clinton were currently our president, I have no doubt in the world that rightwing pundits and politicians would be comparing her to a lead character in the work I am writing about today. She would be Nurse Ratched from Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

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Analyzing Loughner’s Booklist

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2011

Like much of America, I am still in a state of shock over Saturday’s shooting of a Congresswoman, a judge, and 16 others. Like many I wonder if this was an example of a disturbed mind encountering the inflamed political rhetoric that has come to characterize American political discourse. (Add Arizona’s permissive gun laws into […]

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