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truthdig.com - 4/16/2009
Armey’s Tea Party Army
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At the apex of the tea party movement is FreedomWorks, headed by former Rep. Dick Armey. His past career should be instructive to any starry-eyed citizens who believe that they have at last found the true right-wing revolutionary path. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries April 16, 2009 The ...
Schuster: If You're Planning Tea Bagging Across The Country, 'You're Going To Need A Dick Armey' (video)
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youtube.com - 4/14/2009
Schuster: If You're Planning Tea Bagging Across The Country, 'You're Going To Need A Dick Armey' ...
— youtube.com — http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/04/14/schuster-dick-a rmey/ (more) Schuster: If You're Planning Tea Bagging Across The ...

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FreedomWorks Orchestrates ‘Grassroots’ Movements To Serve Dick Armey’s Corporate Clients
thinkprogress.org - 4/14/2009
FreedomWorks Orchestrates ‘Grassroots’ Movements To Serve Dick Armey’s Corporate Clients
— thinkprogress.org — ThinkProgress reported last week that corporate lobbyists are helping to orchestrate the anti-Obama tea party protests. These... lobbying run front groups, along with promotion help from Fox News , are organizing the tea parties by calling right-wing ... (more) FreedomWorks Orchestrates ‘Grassroots’ Movements To ...

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teapartynation.com - 4/14/2009
Tea Party Nation
— teapartynation.com — Welcome TEA PARTIERS! Updates from Nashville & Franklin, TN Want to know what these “tea parties” are... all about? Wondering what to do now that the tax day tea parties are over? Join this new social network and contribute the the cause in the red ... (more) Tea Party Nation

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Hit & Run:  Army of Dicks Goes After Dick Armey

Politics Daily:  The Tea Party Attendance Count

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Army of Dicks Goes After Dick Armey
Hit & Run — ... Not very ambiguous, is it? Portraying Dick Armey and his organization as an amen chorus to big-government Republicans is just willful ignorance. Which, I suppose, is marginally more defensible than cold making shit up, which Cooper does here: ...

The Tea Party Attendance Count
Politics Daily — ... Also note that the tea parties dominated the news cycle for two days now. Not bad for a disorganized leaderless mess. Well either that, or Dick Armey is a super genius with astroturfing campaigns and has been hiding it all these years. Who knew? ...

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FreedomWorks Lobbyist Dick Armey Takes Credit for Organizing Tea Parties
firedoglake.com 4/13/2009 — Glenn Reynolds, who has made himself the online face of the Teabagger extremists, certainly knows more than his "peeps" that there is huge right wing infrastructure behind the demonstrations. But he plays the good soldier in today's ...
The Tea Parties — Political Punch
As thousands of voters make their way to "Tea Party" protests today, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, whose conservative group "FreedomWorks" is part of these activities, weighs in on the importance of the protests in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
Dick Armey And Sean Hannity Perpetuate The “Grass Roots” Myth About Tax Day Tea Parties — News Hounds
During his appearance on last night's (4/14/09) Hannity, Dick Armey disingenuously told Sean Hannity that he was going to the Atlanta Tax Day Tea Party because he “was invited” by people he didn't know who were “not paid political operatives.” In fact, Armey heads FreedomWorks, one of three ...
FreedomWorks Orchestrates ‘Grassroots’ Movements To Serve Dick Armey’s Corporate Clients — Think Progress
ThinkProgress reported last week that corporate lobbyists are helping to orchestrate the anti-Obama tea party protests. These lobbying run front groups, along with promotion help from Fox News , are organizing the tea parties by calling right-wing activists and asking them to organize. They are ...
Wrong on so many levels — Political Animal
WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS.... Brendan Steinhauser, a spokesperson for Freedomworks, a group started by Dick Armey, offers his take on the historical context of the "Tea Parties" he's helped organize. "We're applying Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals' here," said...