How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster (major puke alert)

Rolling Stone ^ | Matt Taibbi

[Beave Meister]

It's taken three trips to Kentucky, but I'm finally getting my Tea Party epiphany exactly where you'd expect: at a Sarah Palin rally. The red-hot mama of American exceptionalism has flown in to speak at something called the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, a gospel-music hoedown in a giant convention center filled with thousands of elderly white Southerners. Palin — who earlier this morning held a closed-door fundraiser for Rand Paul, the Tea Party champion running for the U.S. Senate — is railing against a GOP establishment that has just seen Tea Partiers oust entrenched Republican hacks in Delaware and New York. The dingbat revolution, it seems, is nigh.

[Beave Meister]

They just don't get it. This movement is much bigger than the 1960's Vietnam War protest. They'll find out in November.

[a fool in paradise]

Rolling Stoned never knew crap about music either.

[Obadiah]

More homosexual rantings from Jan Wenner’s magazine. Does Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair share the same bath house?

[Drill Thrawl]

Rolling Stoned never knew crap about music [insert subject matter here] either.

FIFY

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The left is projecting again. Since it was "organized" by a "vanguard" of professional agitators going all the way back to the Bolsheviks, liberals/socialists/communists therefore assume that Conservatives must likewise be organized and led from above.

That average Americans can think and organize themselves and come together in a true grassroots rebellion against the socialist takeover of America is completely foreign to the liberal mindset.

[Pessimist]

I like how he portrays a gvt employee as having been “picking up a check from gvt hsi whole life”.

True enough.

But if it were a liberal, the same resume would be described as a “lifetime of public service”.

[FrankR]

[pallis]

The monster that created the Tea Party is big government.

[tcrlaf]

Any mention of the Shadow Democratic Party in this article, and who is funding it??

I didn’t think so....
HYPOCRITES WITHOUT A CLUE..

[cripplecreek]

The tea party grew out of an on air rant of Rick Santelli (sp ?)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This guy is just saying what he thinks his Rolling Stone corporate masters want to hear.

[Onelifetogive]

National Quartet Convention in Louisville, a gospel-music hoedown in a giant convention center filled with thousands of elderly white Southerners.

Lefties make me sick. I am no fan of Quartet music, but I know where they are in terms of loving this country and giving their lives in support of it (many in a war that saved civilization.)

[a fool in paradise]

This movement is much bigger than the 1960's Vietnam War protest.

SDS and other so called peace protest organizers were aided by Communist organizations. The Weather Underground committed naked treason with their support of the North Vietnamese Communist military.

It was no more a "peace movement" than today's Code Pink and ANSWER protesters are. They openly support the enemy in combat and celebrate their victories. That is choosing a side in combat that is contrary to the homeland.

There were well-meaning housewives and college students who were unaware of the involvement of Communists in promoting and funding these protests.

But we are told that is "scaremongering" to bring it up. Nothing but a "Red Scare". Yet this conspiracy theory that ALL dissent against the Obama regime is "racist" and/or funded by "big corporations" (the kind that gave wildly to Obama) is insulting and revisionist crap.

[a fool in paradise]

In recent presidential elections, liberal moles working for Rolling Stone sat in RNC election offices as “volunteers” to do opposition research.

They consider the GOP a “threat” to America. They believe the War on Terror is a misdirected effort. “We” are to blame for Islamic supremacists engaging in terrorism against us.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Here’s just a handful of some of Obama’s CORPORATE donors.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=n00009638

[vaudine]

Oh? I guess using corporate entities to support your political agenda belongs exclusively to Dems?

Only ONE name among the MANY--most of them foreigners, I might add.

GEORGE SOROS! GEORGE SOROS! GEORGE SOROS!.

THEN THROW IN HOLLYWOOD IDIOT CELEBRITIES AND AMERICAN SPONSORS AND SYMPATHIZERS LIKE THOSE IN SILICON VALLEY, GE/TIME WARNER, etc.

vaudine

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

More:

Big Donors Among Obama’s Grass Roots

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041004045.html

[Jim Scott]

This is the kind of snarky article you would expect from a leftist rag like 'Rolling Stone'. The author is clueless about the Tea Party movement and obviously just wants to use the Tea Party movement as a vehicle to write insults aimed at anyone to the right of Fidel Castro. I stopped reading about a third of the way through because I know the rants by heart i.e. 'Tea Party supporters are stupid, racist hypocrites that hate the poor and want to kill homosexuals', blah, blah, blah.

This kind of bilge is really just a lefty 'journalist' feeding leftist propaganda to the gullible about how terrible America is and how anyone who opposes the communist model of government is stupid/racist/homophobic, etc, etc. Same old garbage they've been peddling for decades only now the Tea Party is their new target. Too bad for the left that the Tea Party movement represents a majority of the American people, something they have yet to understand - and probably never will. Their loss.

[RockinRight]

Being a young music afficianado in the ‘90s, as a teen I got a subscription to Rolling Stone.

Within 3 months, my young conservative mind couldn’t get past the left-wing vomit and they became firewood.

[RoadTest]

“Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.” - Proverbs 26:27

[Niteranger68]

Matt should stick to writing about what Lady Gaga will dress up as for Halloween.

[Elwood P. Doud]

Read some of the original article. Karl Rove is supposed to be one of the secret leaders of the Tea Party. And his public slamming of O’Donnell, etc.? Hah, that’s just brilliant reverse psychology! Rove, you magnificent bastard!

[GeronL]

Why does this ‘magazine’ exist?

[a fool in paradise]

Exclusive: Internal Email Reveals MTV Pressuring Employees to Attend Jon Stewart’s Political Rally
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2606438/posts

[wac3rd]

More vomit pressed into a magazine from Leftists who hate America.

[a fool in paradise]

Why does this ‘magazine’ exist?

And why did Crawdaddy and CREEM ever go away?

[dforest]

Gawd these people are ignorant. I am so tired of reading their goofy made up BS.

[andy58-in-nh]

I took this picture at one of the first Tea Party rallies in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Man, have you ever seen such a collection of "corporate interests and Republican insiders" in your life????

Matt Taibbi: you're a tool. And not the useful kind, either.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Is this in the same issue that published that fluff piece on Obama this month?

[GOPJ]

Thanks!!!

[a fool in paradise]

The Tea Partiers have a lot more hand made signs than the so called "labor" protesters.

[WAW]

Bingo.

[WAW]

Tell that to Taibbi at Rolling Stoned and he’ll just reply that that sounds like a good band name.

[GeronL]

eh?

Sounds gross

[andy58-in-nh]

It’s such a joke. Everyone with half a functioning cerebellum knows who the “professionals” are - tax-fattened union layabouts and their pinkie-ringed bosses, who organize rent-a-mobs with financial assistance from the left-wing Washington infrastructure (CAP, ACORN, Tides, the Apollo Alliance, and on and on and on...)

[a fool in paradise]

[GeronL]

never heard of them

[a fool in paradise]

And yet Rolling Stone remains, a hangover relic from the hippiedom of San Francisco.

[MrB]

The left isn’t just projecting -
they are INCAPABLE OF CONCEIVING
of any group or movement that isn’t organized
in a top-down manner.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

From Wikipedia....."Taibbi spent his childhood in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Concord Academy and Bard College at Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, then spent a year abroad at Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University. His father is Mike Taibbi, an NBC television reporter."

Spolied, private school, rich kid who got his job through daddy complaining about hard working Americans.

[The Comedian]

Rolling Stoned never knew crap about music either.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Seruzawa]

Yes. Rolling Stone is right. The Tea Party is made up entirely of dumb mouth-breathing racists. They are really no threat because they are all morons from trailer parks. Pay no heed to them.......... rest easy. You are safe and the Democrats will win BIG from the surge. No worries. You won’t even need to vote because the Tea Parties are so inconsequential.........

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The great thing about the timing and duration of the TP movement as it has grown so far is that at this juncture, I honestly feel no insult when folks talk a line of complete nonsense crap about the TP. I feel no need to correct them via argument. I feel no need to defend the TP. I’m not going to be changing their opinion.

These stories about the TP and how they were created by corporations are of course massively beyond stupid. They’re so far beyond stupid they can’t even catch a bus back to stupid. But y’know what? Let ‘em think whatever the heck they want. If people think this kind of tall tale is convincing, they’re beyond any form of logical reasoning.

[4Godsoloved..Hegave]

LOL!
Clueless, I say leave them in their stupidty. Ignorant you can help, stupid you can’t.

[TigersEye]

That’s just a laugh. Not even worth being irritated about. It’s actually a great thing that the libs are fence post stupid about the TEA Parties.

[PATRIOT1876]

If the Left is against Rand Paul and they call him crazy.....it’s rock solid proof that he is the one we should elect!

[PATRIOT1876]

*That average Americans can think and organize themselves and come together in a true grassroots rebellion against the socialist takeover of America is completely foreign to the liberal mindset.*

The concept of thinking for themselves is a foreign to them as if they were trying to understand dolphin language....

[GVnana]

This stuff is always good for a laugh, coming — as it does — from Soros monkeys.

[PATRIOT1876]

*Why does this ‘magazine’ exist?*

Very near the time when the last hippie from the 1960’s dies, this irrelevant rag will die with him.

[hotshu]

The authorship was all I needed to read.