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The Real Sarah Palin's Alaska
http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=HemHFheHRlDWPJiMKXjiEw..

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Sarah Palin, Neocon Messiah
http://act.commondreams.org/go/52?akid=9.124981.XaYMDd&t=22

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Tea on the Common

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "I know, I know, it was just last week that I vowed never to write about these Tea Party people again. I would be more than happy to do just that, but you see, they're coming to my town, h..., to my neighborhood, and tagging along with them is none other than the Queen Of Duh, Sarah Palin."

http://www.truthout.org/tea-common58545



Palin Bags Boston: A Live Blog

Read William Rivers Pitt's blog posts from the Tea Party extravaganza held at Boston Common this Wednesday morning.

http://www.truthout.org/palin-bags-boston-a-live-blog58556

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Memo reveals successful GOP plot to co-opt, corrupt tea party movement

Politico

04/14/10

Just days after the first widespread tea party demonstrators hit the streets a year ago Thursday, Joe Wierzbicki, a Republican political consultant with the Sacramento firm Russo Marsh + Rogers, made a proposal to his colleagues that he said could ‘give a boost to our PAC and position us as a growing force/leading force as the 2010 elections come into focus.’ The proposal, obtained by POLITICO, was for a nationwide tea party bus tour, to be called the Tea Party Express, which over the past seven months has become among the most identifiable brands of the tea party movement...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35785.html



The Great Tea Party Cash-In

The American Conservative
by Sean Scallon

04/15/10

It’s not surprising that the Powers that Be would prey upon the Tea Partiers. For one thing, the establishment party found itself without much of an activist base after eight years of Bush II. What is referred to as the ‘religious right’ is a spent force, other groups are more into their own single issues and still others are made up more of email lists and fundraisers rather than flesh and blood door-to-door persons. The Tea Parties were Godsend to them, not because of bodies in the street but names and credit cards numbers they could exploit. Indeed, there was a reason why so many rightists were looking forward to the Obama Presidency, they were back in business again. As they will tell you (and as the netroots are currently finding out) it’s a lot harder to fire people up when your gang runs the show...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/04/14/the-great-tea-party-cash-in/



The return of Christian terrorism

AlterNet
by Mark Jurgensmeyer

04/15/10

Threats of right-wing violence have doubled in the past year. What is behind the latest upsurge in the movement to create a Christian theocratic state?

http://tinyurl.com/y6wbcls


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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All You Need to Know about Tea Baggers

57% Still Support George Bush - And, Yes, Their Rage Is Fueled by Racism, Fox News.
http://snipurl.com/vjg0r


From Information Clearing House



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