Here Bruce, I will save you some time....Faux news, Dick Armey, Newt
Gingrich...grass roots?, non partisan? give me a break....
"Despite these attempts to make the “movement” appear organic, the
principle organizers of the local events are actually the lobbyist-run
think tanks Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works. The two groups
are heavily staffed and well funded, and are providing all the
logistical and public relations work necessary for planning coast-to-
coast protests:
– Freedom Works staffers coordinate conference calls among
protesters, contacting conservative activists to give them “sign
ideas, sample press releases, and a map of events around the country.”
– Freedom Works staffers apparently moved to “take over” the
planning of local events in Florida.
– Freedom Works provides how-to guides for delivering a “clear
message” to the public and media.
– Freedom Works has several domain addresses — some of them made
to look like they were set up by amateurs — to promote the protests.
– Americans for Prosperity is writing press releases and planning
the events in New Jersey, Arizona, New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas,
and several other states.
This type of corporate ‘astroturfing‘ is nothing new to either
organization. While working to promote Social Security privatization,
Freedom Works was caught planting one of its operatives as a “single
mom” to ask questions to President Bush in a town hall on the subject.
Last year, the Wall Street Journal exposed Freedom Works for similarly
building “amateur-looking” websites to promote the lobbying interests
of Dick Armey, the former Republican Majority Leader who now leads
Freedom Works and is a lobbyist for the firm DLA Piper.
Americans for Prosperity is run by Tim Phillips, who was Ralph Reed’s
former partner in the lobbying firm Century Strategies. The group is
funded by Koch family foundations — a family whose wealth is derived
from the oil industry. Indeed Americans for Prosperity has coordinated
pro-drilling ‘grassroots‘ events around the country.
UpdateThis afternoon, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich,
leader of the corporate-funded American Solutions for Winning the
Futures (ASWF), blasted an e-mail to his supporters with a reminder to
attend the protests, along with a "Toolkit" of talking points.
Gingrich's ASWF is funded by polluters and helped orchestrate the
"Drill Here, Drill Now" campaign last summer. ASWF has been an
official "partner" in the tea party effort since at least March."
Lee Fang
On Apr 13, 5:50 pm, bruce majors <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steve Leser of Op Ed Newsis actively flaking against them,smearing them,
> claiming they are a fraud not created by real grass roots people
>
> I am going to search out the home addresses of these fascist flaks and post
> them on line tonight
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Ohio mark <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
> > There's a reason the mainstream media has barely mentioned the growing
> > Tea Party phenomenon: it scares moonbats witless. A stain spreads
> > across Wyatt Shev's trousers as he whimpers in terror:
>
> > April 15th. Write that date down; people — it could very well mark
> > the beginning of the end. With the notoriously conservative Tea Party
> > movement gaining steam, is it time to take the 'United' out of 'United
> > States'? … On April 15th, hundreds of thousands of PO'd red meat
> > eatin' Americans will converge on the streets to protest the Obama
> > administration's policies and platforms. … In reality, their
> > 'movement' is incredibly divisive, a mindset that stands in sharp
> > contrast to Obama's calls for bipartisanship in this time of great
> > national need. Their arguments have the potential to divide the
> > country along titanic lines not seen since the bloody days of the
> > Civil War.
>
> > Think I'm exaggerating here? The Tea Party movement is an
> > incredibly dangerous concept, fuelled by the usual gushes of
> > sycophantic support from the conservative news media (here's looking
> > at you, Fox). … If the country continues down this dark path, a second
> > Civil War might not just be a cool idea for a sci-fi novel anymore. …
> > I hope the protesters fail in their mission to bring their message to
> > a national audience. It's a message of fear, prejudice and, quite
> > frankly, hate. … The Tea Party movement represents a real danger to
> > the tenets of democracy Americans have embraced for centuries.
>
> > On the contrary, peaceful protests against the deliberate bankrupting
> > of our economy and the imposition of socialism are the quintessence of
> > the tenets of democracy Americans have embraced for centuries.
>
> > On Tax Day, the Tea Parties will be too big for the media to ignore,
> > so it will turn to Plan B: demonizing anyone who takes party in them.
> > Shev won't be the last to stick a shiv into patriots who care enough
> > to take a stand against the leftists destroying our country.
>
> >http://www.moonbattery.com/
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