Teabaggers are all Fakes: Alternet

[Mari333]

going to post this again:
Fake Teabaggers Are Anti-Spend, Anti-Government: Real Populists Want to Stop Banks from Plundering America


The Tea Party movement was born on Feb. 19 with a now-famous rant by second-string CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli, who called for a "Chicago Tea Party" in protest of President Barack Obama's plans to help distressed American homeowners. Santelli’s call blazed through the blogosphere, greased along by a number of FreedomWorks-funded blogs, propelling him to the status of a 21st century Samuel Adams — a leader and symbol of disenfranchised Americans suffering under big-government oppression and mismanagement of the economy.

That same day, a nationwide "Tea Party" protest movement mysteriously materialized on the Internet. A whole ring of Web sites came online within hours of Santelli's rant, like sleeper-cell blogs waiting for the trigger to act, all claiming to have been inspired by Santelli's allegedly impromptu outburst.

At first glance, the sites appeared to be unconnected and unplanned. But many were suspiciously well designed and strangely on point with their "nonpartisan" and "grassroots" statements. It was as if all of them were reading from the same script. The Web sites heavily linked to each other, spreading their mission with help of Facebook and Twitter feeds. FreedomWorks, as if picking up on rumblings coming from the depths of the conservative netroots, linked to them, too.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/136688/fake_teabaggers_are_anti-spend%2C_anti-government%3A_real_populists_want_to_stop_banks_from_plundering_america/

[ladjf]

1. Good thinking! nt

[Barack_America]

2. That was a great read.

Thanks!

:hi:

[leftstreet]

3. K&R

[Why Syzygy]

4. Victims still.

The suckers in the Tea Party movement have no idea that while their anger is genuine, they're doing the king's bidding, not their own.

It's very unfortunate for all of us that these people are willing suckers.

[myrna minx]

5. Great article. K&R n/t

[Kip Humphrey]

6. Not to mention the chicagoteaparty URL which was purchased in August 2008

VERY spontaneous!

[csziggy]

8. And the taxteaparty.com group in Tallahassee which started in 2007

[Beam Me Up]

7. I hope Obama or someone close to the president exposes this BS

for what it is. This whole astroturfed movement is VERY disturbing. It's a "spark" and I don't think it is going to "catch" at this time but if the economic situation in this country should get significantly worse there could be some very dry tender. Brown shirts start coming to mind. Someone on the left/center needs to be thinking of creative ways to expose how it is people's understandable economic concerns and fears are being distorted USED by right wing operatives. It isn't a "real" threat yet but it could become one. What we somehow need to do is make sure it backfires BIG time.

[Quantess]

9. I didn't know Rick Santelli started it.

That says a lot about the integrity of the so-called grassroots movement.