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A Strange Scott Brown Gaffe

By | 01.14.10 | 10:44 am

Josh Marshall is all over GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown’s strange statement to reporters that he was “unfamiliar” with the Tea Party movement. Whatever he meant, that’s not true — Brown, like many Republican officeholders, spoke at Tea Party events in 2009, and has counted on their support to More…

Tea Party Movement Arrives With Beck’s CPAC Appearance

By | 01.14.10 | 9:17 am

Ken Vogel and Michael Calderone muse on the meaning of Glenn Beck’s starring role at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which they argue “marks a new level of personal political engagement” from the talk show host. If anything, it marks the Tea Party’s move to the center of the More…

Tea Party Convention Drama Fueled by Emerging GOP Alliance

By | 01.14.10 | 12:13 am

PALIN

Late last year, Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation came to Eric Odom with a proposition. Odom’s group, the American Liberty Alliance–a free market, anti-tax group launched in March 2009, after its leaders had helped put together the first Tea Party protests–could sign on with the National Tea Party More…

$100,000 for Palin

By | 01.12.10 | 3:39 pm

Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin confirm that Sarah Palin’s honorarium for speeches is $100,000, two first class plane tickets and one economy class ticket. On the west coast she cuts the cost to $75,000, and she waives it for charitable events. But that backs up a week of rumors More…

Reporters (Mostly) Barred From Tea Party Convention

By | 01.12.10 | 10:04 am

For a while, I’ve been calling and emailing the organizers of the National Tea Party Convention with some basic logistical questions, to no avail. Kevin Diaz explains why: the convention, held in Nashville next month, will be closed to all but “selected” members of the press.

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Dale Robertson Is Still At It

By | 01.07.10 | 9:58 am

Charles Johnson catches the Tea Party activist with the infamous “N-word” sign getting taken seriously by The Washington Times, which quotes him as a founder of the movement, threatening that activists will be “turning our guns on anyone who doesn’t support constitutional conservative candidates.”

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‘N-Word’ Sign Dogs Would-Be Tea Party Leader

By | 01.04.10 | 1:04 pm

Dale Robertson, a Tea Party activist who operates TeaParty.org, is getting stung for an old photo — taken at the Feb. 27, 2009 Tea Party in Houston — in which he holds a sign reading “Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar.”

After the ResistNet listerv promoted “Liberty Concerts” to More…

Who Brings a Gun to a Tea Party?

By | 01.04.10 | 9:51 am

Lots of attendees at a Tea Party on Saturday in Alamagordo, N.M., that’s who.

It’s No Fun Being Parker Griffith

By | 12.28.09 | 1:18 pm

Party-switching Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.) is getting whacked again for his life-long record of supporting Democrats, this time from Tea Party-backed Republican challenger Les Phillip, who’s taking aim at Griffith’s donations to 2004 Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). From his statement: More…

This Man Is Going to Kill You, Your Grandmother and Every American Flag

By | 12.23.09 | 1:55 pm

Speaking of Guantanamo, The New York Times profiles an Al Jazeera journalist, Sami al-Hajj, who was wrongly imprisoned there for seven years. We’ve had protests in this country for the past year in which overprivileged white conservatives bray about how the expansion of health care coverage to the most More…