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Ignore the JournoList Meme of the Week and Go to a Tea Party!
The Sundries Shack —
... saying the same thing. Notice how she scampers away like a scared rat when someone asks her if she has anything close to, you know, proof. Steve Benen’s on the same kick and he quotes Oliver Willis who put on his deerstalker cap and came up with, you guessed it, ...
The Tea Party protests
The Next Right —
... arisen in the Leftosphere recently, and their attempts to delegitimize these policy protests are not likely to stop unless the Right fights back. For starters, unless Krugman and the New York Times issue a correction, the people they have libeled should consider responding to this libel through appropriate legal channels. ...
Remember, Left Wing Operatives, I Need Your Reports In Triplicate
Oliver Willis —
Blast it, my effort to silence the right wing has been uncovered by a writer for the… American Spectator. They were alerted by commandant Benen’s missive about their fakeroots protests, scheduled for tax day (More from Benen here, where he tries to fool the right into thinking we didn’t write our posts on George Soros’ say-so). No doubt, they are certain that writing about this made-up protest by Fox News & co. was a coordinated activity? Why? Well, that’s how they do things and they’re projecting ...
Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars —
BeggarsCanBeChoosers: Where were the 'Tea Party' protesters during the Bush years?
Intrepid Liberal Journal: The Democracy Index: An interview with Yale Law School professor Heather Gerken, who on January 1. 2007, published a widely read article in the LegalTimes entitled, “How Does Your State Rank on The Democracy Index.” Gerken argued that just as the Environmental Performance Index (“EPI”) shamed countries such as Belgium to upgrade their environmental practices, a “Democracy Index” would embarrass state and ...
4/13: Obama's 3 A.M. Moment
Blogometer —
... , Benen ) are criticizing the right-wing "tea party" protests, arguing that they're not spontaneous grassroots uprisings because Fox News and other outlets have been promoting them. Conservative bloggers ( ...
Dick Armey, Tea Party Organizer
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
... Teabaggers are having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that "grassroots" demonstrations aren't orchestrated by corporate lobbyists. Understandable -- if you didn't have any experience organizing a demonstration that didn't have millions in free PR from Fox News and well-funded GOP fat cats providing a national infrastructure, you wouldn't know the difference. ...
Republican Teabaggery And Calls For Violence
DownWithTyranny! —
... Teabaggers are having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that "grassroots" demonstrations aren't orchestrated by corporate lobbyists. Understandable-- if you didn't have any experience organizing a demonstration that didn't have millions in free PR from Fox News and well-funded GOP fat cats providing a national infrastructure, you wouldn't know the difference. ...
Teabagger Parties - Remember The Seeing the Forest Rule
Seeing the Forest —
... Firedoglake points out , the tea parties are organized, funded and promoted by a big lobbyist organization . Think Progress also writes about this and Media Matters writes about how these anti-Obama events are receiving exhaustive on-the-air promotion from FOX News, to the point of calling them "FNC Tea Parties." (So does Think Progress .) Also be sure to read Oliver Willis , The Seminal , Crooks & Liars , Washington Monthly , Newshounds and DownWithTyranny writes about the calls to ...
