> Bob Morris - you still here? - likes to say that the Tea Party gang
> includes some leftish types. After reading this, I'm very skeptical:
>
> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/01/100201fa_fact_mcgrath?currentPage=all
>
I just started reading this piece - but this jumped out at me, in light of some previous threads where it was suggested that the Tea Party isn't a real movement, just an astroturf media creation of Fox News:
> My escort was an exceptionally genial sixty-seven-year-old man named
> Don Seely, an electrical engineer who said that he was between jobs
> and using the unwanted free time to volunteer his services to the
> Northern Kentucky Tea Party, the rally’s host organization, as a
> Webmaster. “I’ve never been a Webmaster, but I’ve known Webmasters,”
> he explained, with a chuckle, as he walked around a muddy field, near
> a horse-jumping ring, and introduced me to some of his colleagues, one
> of whom was a fireman. “And he’s also our finance guy.” Being the
> finance guy, from what I could gather, entailed volunteering a
> personal credit card to be used for the group’s PayPal account. The
> amateur nature of the operation was a matter of pride to all those who
> were taking an active interest, in many cases for the first time in
> their lives, in the cause of governance. Several of the volunteers had
> met at Bulldog’s Roadhouse, in a nearby town named Independence, where
> they assembled on weekdays for what you might call happy hour, were it
> not for the fact that Bulldog’s is a Fox News joint and five o’clock
> is when Glenn Beck comes on, warning from a studio that he likes to
> call the “doom room” about the return of a Marxist fifth column.
SA