October 2011
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Tea Party ruthlessly maligned by the left
Amplify’d from www.sourcenewspapers.comAs usual in the left’s war on productive Americans, propaganda is the weapon of choice, and truth is the first casualty. Nothing demonstrates this better than the treatment afforded the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters versus the Tea Party. The former is praised by the left; the latter ruthlessly maligned.If the “occupiers” have a...
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Tea Party ruthlessly maligned by the left
Amplify’d from www.sourcenewspapers.comAs usual in the left’s war on productive Americans, propaganda is the weapon of choice, and truth is the first casualty. Nothing demonstrates this better than the treatment afforded the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters versus the Tea Party. The former is praised by the left; the latter ruthlessly maligned.If the “occupiers” have a...
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The Tea Party Is Wrong on ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Amplify’d from my.auburnjournal.comThe Tea Party began as a protest against the bailout of Wall Street.
Now the Tea Party is, in effect, coming to the defense of Wall Street.
Now the Tea Party has found another way to slide into irrelevance, with its negative response to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Ordinary Americans sense that we have been screwed by Wall Street every bit as much as by...
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Is Michele Bachmann dragging the tea party down...
Amplify’d from www.csmonitor.comIs Michele Bachmann dragging down the tea party as a whole as she sinks in the polls?Don’t look at us – we’re not the first to raise this question. We’re just repunditing an idea from Ned Ryun, head of the tea party group American Majority.On Thursday, Mr. Ryun posted a piece on the American Majority blog entitled, “Bachmann’s Floundering Can Damage Tea Party.” In...
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NY Times Denies Broad Anti-Semitism at OWS; Quick...
Amplify’d from www.mrc.orgWhile the New York Times was hypersensitive to any signs of racial prejudice among the massive, peaceful Tea Party protests, reporter Joseph Berger raised and dismissed the idea of anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street, in Saturday’s “Cries of Anti-Semitism, But Not at Zuccotti Park.” Just two of many references: Reporter David Herszenhorn assumed racism was a force in...
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Could a Tea Party Reality Show Be the Next ‘Jersey...
Amplify’d from www.observer.comDoron Ofir, the man responsible for making The Situation and Snooki household names, is casting for his new show. It’s all about politics, but don’t worry, cool kids: it’s a political party. And if you are an outspoken politico whose interests lie in protesting,Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, or the Tea Party, than this might be your chance to shine like the beautiful,...
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Tea Party leader tells Dover Republicans:...
Amplify’d from www.wickedlocal.comThe group invited Christen Varley, director of the Greater Boston Tea Party, to speak at its meeting, hoping to “get on the same page” before serious campaigning begins for the 2012 election, said committee Chairman Mark Sarro.Addressing the group, Varley said there are a lot of “misnomers and misinformation about what the Tea Party is all about,” largely created...
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Tea Party wants equal treatment as Occupy Atlanta
Amplify’d from www.ajc.comAtlanta Tea Party co-founder Julianne Thompson told Channel 2 Action News that the group, which supports limited taxes and reduced government deficits, has made a request in writing after being denied permission to hold an event downtown because city officials said there was too much red tape and cost involved.“I think it’s very sad that in the city of...
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Tea Party Activist, Hudson Flynt, Talks With...
Amplify’d from www.prweb.com Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 4:35pm on WGST.com and 640AM radio in Atlanta, Rusty Humphries is first to unveil the insights of Hudson Flynt about his newly released book and movement called Reconquer America.The movement to Reconquer America is inspired by the Tea Party movement with one caveat. The battle plan to the movement is devoid of politics. How can this be...
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Paul: Herman Cain called Federal Reserve critics...
Amplify’d from www.politifact.comThe New Hampshire Republican presidential primary debate gave voters a glimpse into a bitter feud between what some might consider unlikely political foes: Texas Congressman Ron Paul and Atlanta-area businessman Herman Cain.Moderators gave each candidate one chance to pose a single question to any one of his or her opponents. Paul used his turn to attack Cain.The...
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Gingrich, Cain Accept Tea Party Invite to Debate...
Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.comWell, it looks like the former House speaker will get his chance to reprise another famous chapter from history when he and fellow Georgian Herman Cain stage a contemporary version of the Lincoln-Douglas debates to talk Medicare and Social Security reform.Messrs. Cain and Gingrich have reportedly accepted an invitation offered by the Texas Tea Party Patriots...
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Defamation Suit Against Tea Party Group Part Of...
Amplify’d from tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.comThe Tea Party Patriots say that a defamation lawsuit filed against them is just part of continued “animosity” from Amy Kremer, now the chair of the Tea Party Express, who was ousted from the Tea Party Patriots in 2009.In a statement Tuesday, the Tea Party Patriots’ attorneys said the group “denies all allegations in new suits, and vows a vigorous...
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Tea party refutes comparison to Occupy forces
Amplify’d from seattletimes.nwsource.comAt a Republican candidate forum last week outside Fort Worth, Texas, a tea-party activist turned Senate candidate proclaimed the Occupy Wall Street protesters “unemployed, uneducated and uninformed.” To which the conservative radio host moderating the panel added, mirthfully, “This is the first occupation many of these people have seen in...
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Occupy Wall Street shares roots with tea party...
Amplify’d from www.miamiherald.com At first glance, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the tea party movement appear to be polar opposites. One rails against, among other things, the overarching power of wealthy banks, the other assails the federal government’s overreach into businesses and people’s lives. But a closer look reveals that the two movements are as much alike as...
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A Tea Party Facebook Spat Turned Really Nasty
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Two lawsuits by two former Tea Party Patriots workers claim the group’s founders defamed them online with some pretty nasty language, including allegations of rape and child molestation through a fake Facebook account. The site Courthouse News Service noticed the lawsuits earlier on Tuesday, both of which charge Virginia-based Tea Party Patriots...
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Surprise! The Tea Party Is Making the GOP More...
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After the 2010 wave election, Republicans saw the number of minorities in their ranks in Congress and governors’ mansions jump from three to 14. And most of these candidates, from Rep. Tim Scott and Gov. Nikki Haley in South Carolina to Rep. Raul Labrador in Idaho, caught a tailwind of antiestablishment fervor.
The biggest roadblocks to these...
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NY Times Again Goes After Personal Finances of Tea...
Amplify’d from www.mrc.orgNew York Times reporters Jennifer Steinhauer and Steven Yaccino unfurled a hit piece (accompanied by a severely unflattering photo) on Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois, conservative freshman congressman and Tea Party favorite, on the front of Tuesday’s National section: “G.O.P.’s Freshman’s Fiscal Message Clashes With His Finances.” It’s not the first time the paper has gone...
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Occupy Wall Street shares roots with tea party...
Amplify’d from www.miamiherald.com “The similarity may just be we are frustrated with the behaviors on Wall Street,” added Brendan Steinhauser, director for federal and state campaigns for FreedomWorks, a group linked to the tea party movement. “However, the tea party is much more angry and frustrated with politicians in Washington, D.C., than the Wall Street occupiers...
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Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party Movements Both Born...
Amplify’d from www.foxbusiness.comAnyone who’s spoken at any length to members of both the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements should have no doubts as to the similarities regarding their respective origins.There are stark differences between the groups, of course, most decidedly in terms of their methods and goals. But it’s the similarities that matter, especially if the movements are to...
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Is GOP Absorbing the Tea Party, or Is the...
Amplify’d from www.sunshinestatenews.comIs the GOP co-opting the tea party movement, or are tea partiers taking down the establishment and sending the RINOs packing?A lengthy New York Times magazine article this week quoted several establishment Republicans crowing over what they see as the demise of the two-year-old tea party activism.Bill Kristol, the neoconservative editor of the Weekly...
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The Tea Party Is Wrong on ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Amplify’d from lewrockwell.comThe Tea Party
began as a protest against the bailout of Wall Street.Now the Tea
Party is, in effect, coming to the defense of Wall Street.Conservatives
never learn.As I maintained
in a
previous article here, the Tea
Party is losing impact because it has lost its focus. What began...
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Tea Party Group Endorses Casey Primary Challenger
Amplify’d from www.politicspa.comThe Independence Hall Tea Party PAC endorsed a challenger to Sen. Bob Casey: Democrat Brian Kelly of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.The Tuesday announcement occurred at Independence Mall in Philadelphia where Kelly officially declared his 2012 candidacy.Don Adams, PAC President, exclaimed that he and his party are tired of Bob Casey’s non-conservative stance through his support...
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Sen. Rand Paul on Occupy Wall Street, Repealing No... →
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Despite tea party's plea, Perry unlikely to call...
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Gov. Rick Perry appears unlikely to call a second special session to revive an effort to ban so-called sanctuary cities in Texas, despite increasing calls from Tea Party groups that the issue deserves immediate attention.Members of the Grassroots Texans Network, an assortment of conservative groups, held a news conference last week accusing Perry of...
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Tea Party group forms PAC to block transportation
Amplify’d from clatl.comOne of metro Atlanta’s most organized tea party groups has formed a political action committee which it hopes will help block next year’s referendum for a 1-cent transportation tax.Debbie Dooley of the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots tells CL that the group filed paperwork yesterday to create the organization, which is called the Atlanta Patriot PAC.“We’re...
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Tea Party Patriots deserve respect
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In response to the lady who complained here that “A chill went up my spine reading about the Tea Party Patriots ‘monitoring’ the local schools.” I want to point out that we, as taxpayers, have a right to see how our money is spent on public education. We expect the schools to teach students the basic 3 R’s and the positive moral values that prepare...
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Tea Party: Stop Comparing Us to "Occupy Wall...
Amplify’d from www.opposingviews.comThe “Occupy Wall Street” protest that has been going on for nearly a month and is spreading to several cities across the United States has drawn comparisons to the Tea Party.Well, the Tea Party has one emphatic word for that: “Stop!”According to a report in the New York Daily News, the Tea Party Patriots, the largest group in the...
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Tea Party Presidential Election Primer: Paul v....
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One of the biggest issues leading to the formation of the Tea Party movement was -— after the burgeoning deficit -— reaction against the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) law. Many Americans joined the Tea Party to stop what was obviously political favoritism being sold by fear-mongering government leaders, and it resulted in a number of...
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Why do news media capitalize ‘Occupy Wall Street’...
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comFor a two-and-a-half-year-old movement, the tea party has already left a massive imprint on American politics. No Republican contender for the presidency can afford to betray its positions against taxation, against liberalizing immigration policies, against a loose interpretation of the Constitution. Tea party backers in 2010 helped vault a number of Republican...
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Tea Party founder backs Occupy Wall Street →
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Will Mitt Romney Kill The Tea Party?
Amplify’d from www.huffingtonpost.comWASHINGTON — Herman Cain’s rise in the polls this week doesn’t change the fact that Mitt Romney is still the most likely Republican nominee for president, but it does underscore the biggest remaining question mark about him: If he wins the primary, will that kill the Tea Party? In other words, will the conservative grassroots turn out in force...
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On the Media: Tea party, Occupy Wall Street share...
Amplify’d from articles.latimes.com You likely saw the quirky signs and heard some protesters talk about how they would just as soon disband the government. Then a reporter dutifully informed you that these people had gathered en masse but didn’t really know what they wanted. Some in the crowd sure looked silly, even a little crazy. That’s the likely conclusion one would gather in...
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Could Occupy Wall St. and the Tea Party Unite?
Amplify’d from curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.comThe lines being drawn between the ultra-right Tea Party and its nearest complement in the realm of public furor, Occupy Wall Street, are curious. My colleague Michael Scherer over at Swampland describes the parallels as follows:In its broadest outlines, this new outpouring of protest is driven by the same fuel that gave fire to the Tea Party: Anger at...
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Schumer Declares War on the Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.nationalreview.comSen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), the Democrats’ chief political messenger, is up to old tricks. In a memo to his Democratic colleagues, Schumer lays out his preferred strategy of blaming “Tea Party Republicans” for the sorry state of the economy. In this case, Schumer argues, Democrats should blame the “extreme” GOP opposition to the President Obama’s jobs bill...
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Tea party group slams Occupy Wall Street; arrests...
Amplify’d from articles.latimes.comAs the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to spread—with massive arrests Monday night in Boston—the tea party wants you to know that the progressive protests have nothing in common with its own grass-roots effort. First, the arrests: About 100 people were arrested by police Monday evening in Boston, according to local news affiliates, after they refused to...
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Rage behind Occupy Wall Street similar to that...
Amplify’d from www.mpnnow.comRage behind Occupy Wall Street similar to that fueling Tea PartyThe rage behind the anti-Wall Street protests is similar to the Tea Party’s backlash two years ago against giant government bailouts of big corporations in response to the financial crisis, some pundits have observed, although the new movement is dominated by liberals instead of conservatives. While...
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Neo-Conservatism Hijacking Tea Party Movement
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Today, politicians such as Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry are identified as members of the Tea Party Movement, but in its short history, this has not always been the case.
The very origins of the modern Tea Party Movement were based on fiscal conservatism, monetary reform, and most importantly, an end to warfare overseas, in what began as a truly grassroots...
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Tea Party for the Left?
Amplify’d from www.thedailybeast.com As Occupy Wall Street spread into satellite protests this past week, there was an understandable impulse to impose an established narrative, asking whether this was the mirror image of the Tea Party protests.
Most of the protestors I spoke to dismissed the comparisons quickly. “The Tea Party is the opposite of Occupy Wall Street. The only thing we have in...
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Tea-Party Attacks Put GE on Defense
Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.comThe tea party and its allies are taking aim at GE for a number of alleged sins, including the company’s paltry 2010 federal tax payment, an aviation joint-venture in China, moving jobs overseas and taking federal stimulus dollars for green-energy projects. The problem for GE is that its rebuttals have failed to even reach some critics. Norman Pallot,...
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Samuel L. Jackson: Tea Party Is Racist
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.comThe Tea-Party-is-racist meme is nothing new. Observers note that the media, Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, and various leftist academics have been retailing it for some time.In March, two executives at NPR, including chief executive officer Vivian Schiller, lost their jobs after one of them was caught on tape calling the Tea Party “scary” and “seriously...
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Christie doesn't thrill Tea Party on every issue
Amplify’d from www.northjersey.comGovernor Christie’s Tea Party bona fides, earned by halting the ARC tunnel project and withdrawing from a greenhouse gas reduction effort, probably won’t hurt him in Republican primaries if he runs for president four years from now.But it’s also likely that he’d have a hard time beating some of the more right-leaning Tea Party favorites in...
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Tea Party Shakes, Shapes US Politics
Amplify’d from www.voanews.comProtests against Wall Street and economic inequality have grown in New York, Washington and other U.S. cities, as citizens speak out against corporate interests. These protests in some ways mirror the rise of the so-called “Tea Party” movement two years ago. The Tea Party wants to cut taxes and reduce the size of the central government, and it now plays...
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What Occupy Wall Street learned from the tea party
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comThe Occupy Wall Street movement, three weeks strong and gaining momentum, reminds us that tea partyers aren’t the only people unhappy with the state of the nation.The two groups are angry about some of the same things, too, especially the government bailouts for big banks — a similarity that Vice President Biden observed in remarks on Thursday. They’ve taken...
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Tea Party to Scott Brown: Good luck with that...
Amplify’d from hotair.comHe may have been the first major victory of the Tea Party on a national level, but Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown may wind up looking a bit lonely in that regard has he prepares to run for his first full term in the upper chamber. The Daily Caller is reporting that Tea Party activists are feeling rather lukewarm toward Brown at best.…Scott Brown was the tea party...
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No more tea party for Rick Perry?
Amplify’d from www.cbsnews.comThe latest big phenomenon in the Republican presidential nominating contest is the sudden collapse of Rick Perry, who looked to be consolidating a formidable lead just a month ago. The consensus opinion is that Perry lost his way in back-to-back candidate debates where he came across as an inarticulate yahoo that Republicans could not trust to hold his own against...
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Wall Street Protests Have ‘Tea Party’ Potential,...
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comThe coalition of thousands of anti- Wall Street protesters in New York and cities across the U.S. has the potential to grow into the “Tea Party of the Left,” said Brayden King, who’s written on social and political movements at Northwestern University.“They have to figure out what it is they are about in order to become the force of change in the Democratic...
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Allen West to Samuel L. Jackson: Quit Crying...
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Noted Obama syccophant Morgan Freeman recently condemned the Tea Party movement as anti-American and suggested that conservative opposition to the president’s policies can be chalked up to “a racist thing.” Fellow actor Samuel L. Jackson revisited the same theme in an interview with NY Magazine, published yesterday:
Jackson also asserted that...
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Tea party influenced Pinellas commission vote to...
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On Tuesday, the board eliminated fluoride despite pleas from dentists who said its absence would cause more rotten teeth.
The tea party movement took flight in 2009 in opposition to big government programs on the national stage, but its influence has since trickled down to local governments to affect the most basic of services — right down to the water that...
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The Tea Party movement
Amplify’d from www.tetonvalleynews.netI can’t speak for the Tea Party. No one individual can because
it is a movement not a structured organization - no dues or
membership cards. There are Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Express,
Tea Party Nation, TeaParty.net, and The American Tea Party. They
are not all the same. The most prominent, the Tea Party Patriots,
states its three core values as...
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The Tea Party movement
Amplify’d from www.tetonvalleynews.netI can’t speak for the Tea Party. No one individual can because
it is a movement not a structured organization - no dues or
membership cards. There are Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Express,
Tea Party Nation, TeaParty.net, and The American Tea Party. They
are not all the same. The most prominent, the Tea Party Patriots,
states its three core values as...
