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hyperbola8 months, 2 weeks ago
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It never fails to amaze how easily right-wing billionaires can lead the gullible around by the nose!
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Right-Wing 'Tea Party' Movement Was Planned Months Ago by GOP Billionaires
The latest so-called "populist" revolt against the federal government was a pre-planned PR stunt.... Populist revolt against the U.S. government is all the rage in the Republican Party, these days. As they tell the story, the public is so outraged by the recovery and reinvestment efforts of the Obama administration that Americans everywhere are turning out to overthrow the tyrannical king of the federal government by re-enacting the Boston Tea Party.
Funny thing, though: it turns out this whole "populist" movement was a planned PR stunt funded by big-money right-wing backers of the GOP who specialize in faking grassroots movements to drum up opposition to Barack Obama.
... What hasn’t been reported until now is evidence linking Santelli’s “tea party” rant with some very familiar names in the Republican rightwing machine, from PR operatives who specialize in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns (called “astroturfing”) to bigwig politicians and notorious billionaire funders. As veteran Russia reporters, both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements to influence and control the political landscape. To us, the uncanny speed and direction the movement took and the players involved in promoting it had a strangely forced quality to it. If it seemed scripted, that's because it was.
What we discovered is that Santelli’s “rant” was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his February 19th call for a “Chicago Tea Party” was the launch event of a carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society.-
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BB648 months, 2 weeks ago
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"right-wing billionaires"? I've attended everyone of our double secret probation meetings for evil billionaires and this never came up in any of my notes. In my state this kind of came out of no where. One person talking to another person and so on. I know of no major planning or organization planning this. I would have contributed if they asked.
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As for dishonest families, oh please. Until you guys get rid of the Kennedy's and Clintons you have nothing to say about sleazy families. -
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robocoder8 months, 2 weeks ago
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OK, how about those of us that actually came to this conclusion all by ourselves? No, I think you can actually blame your pal Obama's fiscal irresponsibility. No rich evil republicans are telling me what to think. It's pretty clear to anyone with half a brain that our bloated, inefficient, bureaucratic, wasteful, fraud-ridden, federal government can't solve even the simplest problems it tackles, let alone something as complex as our current economic woes. You are foolish if you think the feds can do anything except exacerbate the problems we face. The best people to solve this mess we're in is us, the American people. That's what this is all about. But you'll never understand it. What makes this country great is the people, not the government.
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mesodude8 months, 2 weeks ago
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"No rich evil republicans are telling me what to think. It's pretty clear to anyone with half a brain that our bloated, inefficient, bureaucratic, wasteful, fraud-ridden, federal government can't solve even the simplest problems it tackles, let alone something as complex as our current economic woes."
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--The problems cons can't sidestep is that you weren't this excitable when Bush and Cheney and the GOP were spending your money and you, in fact, rewarded these people for spending, spending, spending. We can't and don't now care that you're upset--just because the money isn't being spent where *you* want it to be directed. Please at least *try* to be logical and think of how lacking in credibility you are. ;-(-
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robocoder8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Ah, you think you've got me figured but, wrong answer Hans. I'm a Libertarian, NOT a Republican. I think Bush was an idiot just like you do. I just think that Obama is a bigger idiot. He's a well spoken idiot, as long as he has his teleprompter, but an idiot none the less. I have pretty low opinions of most politicians, be they Republican or Democrat. No, my friend, I lay this firmly on the doorstep of the federal government and that includes the senate, the house, and the executive branch, doesn't matter what party. The're both a bunch of losers.
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I don't want the Feds to spend ANY money. In my opinion, it makes much more sense to concentrate power and resources locally, where you have more accountability. At the federal level your vote hardly counts at all. The feds don't even know you exist. You don't even directly elect the President. At the executive level you voice is so tiny it's for all intents and purposes, non-existent. It's a little better at the state level. But you could very possibly actually directly participate at the county and city level! I've actually ran for the city board! I could have won! It's entirely possible that I could be mayor someday. Pretty likely in fact, given the dumb asses that I would run against.
The whole point of a tea party is about taxation without representation. The feds tax us into oblivion and we have virtually no say over what they spend they money on. Like 100's of billions of dollars to bail out the banks that caused this mess. Come on. That's just idiotic.
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MajJohn7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Your remarks about a right wing conspiracy behind demonstrations concerning how our tax dollars are being wasted would be funny, if not so demented. For that matter who cares why our citizens demonstrate, that is a civil liberty, free assembly. Would you rather no right to free assembly? Who gains from this attack on our constitutional rights?
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And if you knew anything about our history you'd find that the Boston Tea Party was an orchestrated PR stint also. So what? It did effectively point out that we were being suppressed through the taxation of the British parliament. You'd make an excellent Tory.
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