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A Day At The Freak Show: A Report From The Heart Of The Tea Party Protest
The only thing more frightening than being caught in an angry mob of health care protesters is revealing to that angry mob that you work for the Huffington Post. On Thursday, I ventured down to Capitol Hill with a professional death wish. I was going to mingle with a group of tea partiers to ...
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Notes From a Grumpy Old Man — ... Michelle Bachman had a rally on the Capitol steps, where several thousand people were bussed in. If you were just curious or a reporter, you would have been hassled by angry and hostile people: "For two-and-a-half hours, I got the Glenn Beck treatment -- accused of, among other things, subverting freedom, working for a communist propaganda outlet, and having a soulless devotion to slander and scandal." ...

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