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The Coffee Party Heats Up [Should Tea Partiers Worry?]
Newsweek ^
| April 24th 2010
| Steve Tuttle
Posted on 04/24/2010 1:15:26 PM PDT by Steelfish
The Coffee Party Heats Up Tired of all the Tea Party talk, Annabel Park decided to throw a Coffee Partyand 200,000 people showed up.
By Steve Tuttle | NEWSWEEK Apr 22, 2010
When Annabel Park imagined what it would be like to head a new national political movement, here is what she had in mind: a coming together of engaged, intelligent citizens who had tired of the angry rhetoric and accusations of the Tea Partiers; Americans of all political persuasions joining in a spirit of equanimity to discuss the nation's problems, and maybe even share a laugh. It was this beautiful vision that danced in Park's head on a recent Saturday as she made her way to Busboys and Poets, a cafe in Washington, D.C., for one of nearly 500 Coffee Party meetings taking place nationwide that day. She knew the house would be fullword had spread quickly on the group's swelling Facebook page. Park, a documentary filmmaker, was especially pleased that C-Span had arranged to broadcast the meeting.
But from the moment folks in the crowd stood up to speak their minds, Park knew these people had not come to sip cappuccinos and set an example of civility for an overheated nation. They were angry. They hated the Tea
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: astroturfing; coffee; coffeeparty; newsweak; teaparty
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:15:26 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:15:51 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Obamunism: You have two cows. The regime redistributes them and shoots you dead)
To: Steelfish
What a joke. Where is the negative coverage of these clowns?
This woman is an Obama Zombie, btw.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:16:34 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
To: Steelfish
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:16:41 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
To: Steelfish
Where did they get the number 200k? Probably from thin air.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:16:45 PM PDT
by
Kenny
To: Steelfish
Their first rally drew a total of 8 people. And at least one of those was a journalist.
To: Steelfish
A top-down grassroots movement from an Obama activist
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:17:17 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The only roots I can see are the ones at Newsweek.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:17:46 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: Steelfish
The Coffee Party Heats Up [Should Tea Partiers Worry?]No.
They are contrived and not spontaneous or grass roots. They are created in the dem backrooms and trust me, they will have to be bussed in to big events.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:18:13 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Obama is a failed experiment.)
To: Steelfish
If these people are angrier than the tea party maybe the
SPLC ought to be investigating THEM.
Looks like a threat to me.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:19:37 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Steelfish
Coffee Party? Never heard of it. Are they libertarians or something?
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:20:38 PM PDT
by
BradtotheBone
(Moderate Democrat - A politician whose voting record leans left and whose vote can be bought.)
To: circlecity
There was one in Santa Barbara, CA. Six people showed up, Tea Party 150.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:21:01 PM PDT
by
roylene
(Don't believe everything you think!)
To: Steelfish
Reminds me of the Aerosmith Classic “Dream On”
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:22:03 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: Steelfish
No, but be ready for more hyped numbers...
"Coffee Party activists held rally in DC and over 50 million attended."
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:23:16 PM PDT
by
moovova
(More coffee please...make it a double.)
To: Steelfish
Rewarmed in the microwave instant decaf.
Yum.
That will sell well.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:23:29 PM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(Is it sedition to defy usurpation?)
To: Steelfish
Ah, Newsweak. The same rag that brought us the fake “Haditha Incident” that almost railroaded our Marines.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:23:46 PM PDT
by
BradtotheBone
(Moderate Democrat - A politician whose voting record leans left and whose vote can be bought.)
To: Steelfish
200,000 coffee beaners? ROTFL!!!
Somebody is doing drugs.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:25:14 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Dude! Where's my Constitution!)
To: Steelfish
The coffee party is a joke. It’s not even astroturf. Wholly funded by labor union $$$.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:26:51 PM PDT
by
GVnana
To: Steelfish
and 200,000 people showed up.
Where have I missed this? This simple cannot be true. It one of the rallies had 200,000 people it would be front page news on every liberal rag in the country. It would be the headline story on all the Networks as well as CNN and MSNBC. What a bunch of garbage.
Newsweak is pathetic and irrevelant.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:27:19 PM PDT
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough!)
To: Kenny; All
Well .. if there actually were 500 other “Coffee Parties”, then at least 400 people had to show up for EACH COFFEE PARTY - in order to get 200,000.
Hmmmm ..?? 400 is a lot of people. Since they were probably meeting at the local Starbucks, most probably the groups were 25-30 .. not 400 .. making the true total gatherings around a max of 12,500 for the 500 meeting groups.
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posted on
04/24/2010 1:27:32 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(HEALTHCARE IS NOT A "RIGHT"!!)
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