Do Americans really believe they started the whole “tea party” Idea as a grassroots organization?
ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the “Sam Adams Alliance,” whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public. Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots “tea party” protests going on today. All of these roads ultimately lead back to a more notorious rightwing advocacy group, FreedomWorks, a powerful PR organization headed by former Republican House Majority leader Dick Armey and funded by Koch money.
On the same day as Santelli’s rant, February 19, another site called Officialchicagoteaparty.com went live. This site was registered to Eric Odom, who turned out to be a veteran Republican new media operative specializing in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns. Last summer, Odom organized a twitter-led campaign centered around DontGo.com to pressure Congress and Nancy Pelosi to pass the offshore oil drilling bill, something that would greatly benefit Koch Industries, a major player in oil and gas. Now, six months later, Odom’s DontGo movement was resurrected to play a central role in promoting the “tea party” movement.
seems something sinister is abreast
http://www.jossip.com/ed-koch-is-rick-santellis-puppet-master-exclaims-playboy-20090303/
I am not against the tea party because I want higher taxes, that really sounds silly. but i am not going to be used to further the agenda of some rich guy.
anybody notice how us so called “Libs” don’t insult or call names when we post?
I don’t think it will get out of hand bret, the folks behind this need to have a working society in order to make more money, chaos is not an option.
The GOP specializes in grass roots movements as fake as astroturf.
Just as long as they’re not associated with ACORN.
Of course its not. Anyone capable of critical thought could have figured this out.
funny… i thought those guys a few hundred years ago came up with the idea.
WOW!!!! Another Conspiracy Theory!!! COOL!!!!
You are against the “Tea Parties” because you want Higher Taxes on Working People.
You’ve Never worked and paid taxes, eh?
(Never will. I’m sure.)
Don’t feel bad. Most Democrats on Yahoo have never worked and paid any taxes, either.
And they will Agree with You.
Cool!!!!!
YEAH!!!! Fucking Americans!!! Who the hell do they think they are?
No matter what they start or how many people go, the main stream media is ignoring the whole thing. Power to us , the people..I remember the 60′s.
The whole “Tea Party” thing is aimed at idiots who have no comprehension whatsoever concerning the original American version. They are ignorant people totally mis-informed of the concept. They will ALL look like fools.
Paying less taxes is sinister????
Debt-free living is sinister?
How much do they pay you???
ACORN sent paid staff to picket AIG. LOL.
What’s a TEA PARTY?
WRITE FOX AND COMPLAIN:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html
So what? If your rich you cannot get involved in politics. If your rich you are not allowed to support a cause you believe in?
You might be on to something, but I’m not worried about that. I’m more worried about folks losing their cool at just ONE of these protests, and lighting off a powder keg. I worry about folks looking to start a French Revolution, rather than a 2nd American Revolution. The folks are just trying to protest peacefully, but I’m afraid they will be the start of something violent. I could see things getting very easily out-of-hand.
who cares who started it? I still support the idea regardless, myself and many, many others
Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.
But I have been against the hiking up of taxes for a long time. Sending a tag from a tea bag lets them know how many people are getting fed up. It doesn’t matter who first cam up with the idea.
Rich people will always try to make a certain policy work for them. We can’t just sit still & do nothing because we don’t want them to try.
I feel these tea party’s are just another way to mislead the middle class .If people would take time to look into there agenda they (the middle class ) would find there is nothing to benefit the middle class in them and I feel this is just one more ploy to get peoples mind’s off of one very important thing .Passing the Employee Free Choice Act .Passing this would help the middle class to rise and be counted!