Teabaggers Collapsing Again?

Those of you who who enjoy keeping an eye on the teabag "movement," as Green Eagle does, may remember my report about the miserable failure of their national strike a week ago. Now their grand teabag convention, to be headlined headlined by the ever-altruistic Sarah Palin, for a measly $125,000 or so, seems to be in running into trouble. Today, the Republican dream girl, Michelle Bachmann, announced that she is pulling out of her scheduled appearance at the event. What was the last time you saw Michelle Bachmann turn her back on a chance to humiliate herself in public?

It has long been my belief that the teabag movement is nothing but an artificial creation, sustained by corporate money and free promotion on Fox News and the right wing blogs, and made to appear significant only through a perpetual, and vast, exaggeration of the level of participation. Yet as long as the money to promote it is there, the illusion will be maintained, and of course, our mainstream press will fall for it.

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JoMala "Truth 101" Kelly said…
Our local online news source, Quincy News.Org is actively promoting tea bagger stuff. Don't go there GE. This isn't to promote them. It's simply validating your point that tea baggers are promoted by right wing bloggers.
January 29, 2010 at 6:52 PM
Green Eagle said…
And right wing money- lots of it, and right wing news outlets. Truth, I was deeply involved in the Vietnam protests, and I think I know what a real grassroots movement looks like. After the five tea parties I have attended, I don't believe that's what I have seen there.
January 30, 2010 at 1:21 PM
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