Sunday, March 1, 2009

Was The Tea Party Already In The Bag?

As the right side of the country got their snits on by having themselves a little tea party, could it be that they are just being played by other, more nefarious factors of the right's power structure?

Everyone by now is familiar with Santelli's rant against the stimulus package, even though he was all for it when Bush proposed a version of it last year.

Right after he had his YouTube snit fit, a website sprung up within hours.

Interestingly enough, said website was actually created in August 2008:
“Within hours of Santelli’s rant, a website called ChicagoTeaParty.com sprang to life. Essentially inactive until that day, it now featured a YouTube video of Santelli’s “tea party” rant and billed itself as the official home of the Chicago Tea Party. The domain was registered in August, 2008 by Zack Christenson, a dweeby Twitter Republican and producer for a popular Chicago rightwing radio host Milt Rosenberg—a familiar name to Obama campaign people. Last August, Rosenberg, who looks like Martin Short’s Irving Cohen character, caused an outcry when he interviewed Stanley Kurtz, the conservative writer who first “exposed” a personal link between Obama and former Weather Undergound leader Bill Ayers. As a result of Rosenberg’s radio interview, the Ayers story was given a major push through the Republican media echo chamber, culminating in Sarah Palin’s accusation that Obama was “palling around with terrorists.” That Rosenberg’s producer owns the “chicagoteaparty.com” site is already weird—but what’s even stranger is that he first bought the domain last August, right around the time of Rosenburg’s launch of the “Obama is a terrorist” campaign. It’s as if they held this “Chicago tea party” campaign in reserve, like a sleeper-site. Which is exactly what it was.
Read the whole post on it here.

It was also mentioned in the article that some of the bad actors behind this possible fraud include the Koch family, which is also behind the Americans for Prosperity, which is scheduled to hold their local propaganda session next weekend.

I wonder what lies will be coming out of that manurefest.

Tip of the crown to the Chief.

6 comments:

  1. TAXATION BY AN INELIGIBLE PRESIDENT IS TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.

    NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE -- WHO IS HE TO TAKE LAYERS AND LAYERS OF NEW TAXES FROM HARD WORKING AMERICANS?

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  2. TAXATION BY AN INELIGIBLE PRESIDENT IS TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.

    NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE -- WHO IS HE TO TAKE LAYERS AND LAYERS OF NEW TAXES FROM HARD WORKING AMERICANS?

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  3. Wow, Ted, thanks for that insight into a disturbed mind.

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  4. You are aware Playboy's both taken the story down AND killed the link to it, correct?

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  5. Um, no I wasn't. I was working today.

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