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Tea Party Express Chair Amy Kremer: “Pres. Obama doesn’t “love America the way we do.”
This clip of Amy Kremer, the chair of the Tea Party Express, using tired, repeated sound bites that even she doesn’t seem to fully understand.
Kremer’s showing here, on CNN, illustrates both the thinly veiled racism of her movement and it’s complete lack of understanding of the complexity of world affairs.
Did anyone notice that there were no mentions of the Tea Party movement during the prime time speeches at the Republican National convention this week? Remember when Tea Party was everyone’s favorite phrase?
Not a single one of the 38 speakers during the convention’s key prime time hours has even mentioned the phrase, according to an examination of their transcripts — a sign both of Romney’s own distance from the movement and that polls have suggested that voters view the movement negatively.
At the very least, I expected Tea Party favorite Senator Rand Paul to give a shout out. Nothing.
Things that make you go “hmm…”
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Classic Aaron Sorkin writing addressing the Tea Party movement – point by point.
If you aren’t watching “The Newsroom” you really should. Great show.
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From NPR: If you direct your browser to TeaParty.com, you will not find a site devoted to the political movement of the same name. What you will find is the Internet home of The Tea Party, a Canadian rock band that has owned the domain name since the early ’90s.
Now, with seemingly no shortage of would-be buyers, the band is hoping to cash in.
The Tea Party may not be well-known in the U.S., but they’re pretty big in Canada. They got started in Toronto in 1990 and by the early 2000s, The Tea Party had recorded eight albums, toured the world and sold 1.6 million records. All along, the band got offers to sell its website.
“There [were] a bunch of small people kicking the tires and seeing if we’d be interested,” says Tea Party bassist Stuart Chatwood. “But the first real political offer came in this summer.”
Chatwood doesn’t want to say who made that offer, but he will say it was “significant.”
“It had a mid-seven-digit back-end to it, and it was like, whoa — all of a sudden we realized that, you know, our little house that we had built happened to be sitting right on top of a gold mine.”
Chatwood won’t say much about his politics, except that he’s very happy with his Canadian socialized medical care.
They hired domain-name broker Sedo, which sold Sex.com for $13 million in 2010, to help them out. Sedo spokeswoman Kathy Nielsen says she doesn’t think TeaParty.com will fetch as much as Sex.com did, but — between its traffic numbers and its search value — it could still be worth more than a million dollars.
“Say it’s a Tea Party group that needs it for fundraising,” Nielsen says. “They can make a business case out of it.”
The Tea Party’s broker expects a deal to close in the next few months, so the next time you click on TeaParty.com, the site could be singing a very different tune.
Hello, America. This is the Tea Party.
This tells you everything you need to know.
BTW – according to IMDB, she was married to her first husband, Nisan Evantoff, for nearly six years – divorced don’t you know, like a good Christian… Evantoff was a composer of music for hardcore X-rated films.
Tea party figure and former Delaware U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell (she lost the general election to Democrat Chris Coons by 17 points) met with Iowa tea party activists in West Des Moines this past Saturday.
The purpose, she said in an interview before the meeting began, was to gauge the presidential candidate preferences of Iowa tea party groups before she formally endorses a candidate.
“I will be endorsing somebody before the Iowa caucus, and as my top three tend to rotate, I wanted to get the input of my supporters,” she said.
The meeting was open to any interested tea party supporters, but held in private at a Jordan Creek Town Center restaurant. O’Donnell’s father and an aide, Matt Moran, required attendees to sign a non-disclosure and confidentiality agreement before entering the meeting space.
Twelve people attended, including the two traveling with O’Donnell. The room was set up to accommodate 40.
You may recall in August, Tea Party organizers invited then un-invited Ms. O’Donnell to a rally in Iowa.
Iowa may not be Ms. O’Donnell’s kind of place…
From ThinkProgress: Speaking at the social conservative Value Voters Summit today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor maligned the Occupy Wall Street protests and the wider 99 percent movement as a “mob” that is out to “divide Americans”:
CANTOR: I for one am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country. And believe it or not, some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans.
Believe it or not, Cantor has — by his definiton — “condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans” when he endorsed the Tea Party movement.
