[lbo-talk] Demographic composition of the Tea Party

Chip Berlet c.berlet at publiceye.org
Wed Apr 7 13:47:14 PDT 2010


They started as astroturf, but they turned into a real mass movement. Even skeptical looks at recent polling shows it has traction among millions of people.

-cb

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of dredmond at efn.org Sent: Wed 4/7/2010 4:35 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Demographic composition of the Tea Party

On Wed, April 7, 2010 1:17 pm, Chip Berlet wrote:


> I suggest taking the Tea Party Movement seriously not because I want to
> try to organize them, but because they are ALREADY out-organizing the
> left

I'm all for keeping tabs on the Right's think-tanks and related shenanigans, and appreciate the hard work this involves, but the Teeps are pure astroturf. They've thrown a few tiny protests and been given outrageously fawning media coverage by our rotting, braindead, zombie of neoliberalism otherwise known as Big Media.

-- DRR

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