Filmmaker Goes Undercover to Expose Corporate Links to the Tea Party (VIDEO)

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/filmmaker-goes-undercover_b_749819.html


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The film singles out free-market 'grassroots' groups FreedomWorks and Americans For Prosperity (AFP), whose million-plus memberships helped create the Tea Party movement and led the uprising against the Democrats reform agenda.

While AFP have been getting a lot of press lately for their ties to billionaire oil man David Koch, (Astro) Turf Wars take this to a whole new level. Of particular note are the revelations that in a previous incarnation both AFP and FreedomWorks were paid by tobacco companies to kill the Clinton healthcare reforms in 1994, mobilizing their grassroots army to fight a 'government takeover' and 'socialized medicine'.

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The 90 minute film, which is available online at astrotufwars.com, comes at opportune moment for President Obama and the Democratic Party who are being drowned in a flood of corporate money to special interest groups like AFP, who according to the Associated Press have already spent $5.5m on attack ads against Democrat candidates -- that's a lot of moolah for a supposedly "grassroots" group.
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[SpiralHawk]

1. "Smirk." - RepubliCorporate Crony Puppetmasters (R)

[SpiralHawk]

3. "D'oh." - TeaBagliCon Sockpuppet Suckers (R)

[rocktivity]

2. James O'Keefe, eat your heart out!

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rocktivity

[AC_Mem]

4. You can watch it online for $1.99

I will absolutely be watching this one tonight! Thanks so much for the information ensho!

Annette

[Supersedeas]

5. the fake new cast brought to you by....the fake grassroots movement brought to you by...

[AldebTX]

6. What's Funny

The Repugs bring up George Soros as the big boogie man on the democratic side as if he is a mighty puppet master.

The Koch brothers actually are EVERYTHING they accuse George Soros of and are tied for 5th with each other as the 5th wealthiest person in the U.S.