Posted on 03/12/2010 8:06:31 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
What is it that the left and the Old Media said about the Tea Party movement? Didn't they say it was not really filled with regular folks and didn't they say it was not really a grass roots level effort because some nefarious "top-down" Republican groups were secretly behind the whole thing? That's what Paul Krugman said in The New York Times. So did Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi -- after someone taught her was "astroturf" even was, that is. In fact, the whole left-wing Old Media establishment attacked the tea party movement as some fake, manufactured thing and claimed that it wasn't peopled by regular folks like you and me. All you need do is put "astroturf" and "tea party" in a search engine and you'll get thousands of hits revealing the left's unhinged response to the tea parties.
So, since they seem to want us to believe that they hate "astroturf," will the left-wing press get all upset that this "coffee party" effort really IS Astroturf? Will the Old Media explode in calls of "astroturf" as it did during the early phases of the tea party movement? Or will they pretend that this coffee party business is real grass roots and report on the effort based on that false assumption. Already it seems as though the coffee party effort is not meeting any real scrutiny and I just got an email that proves the essential "top-down" style upon which this effort is built....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
cnn.com has a photo of some “coffee party” members on their front page. They’re on facebook and so is The Real Coffee Party.
They don’t know what they stand for.
They’re sheep spouting the party line.
They’re dangerous
The anarchists will take them over in no time, orders from Soros.
NY Times, Washington Post Hide Phony ‘Coffee Party’ Astroturf Roots — at the NY Times!
Sheesh. This is so lame, I'm not even gonna give 'em points for trying.
Great stuff mewzilla
COFFEE:
Communist
Obamabots
For
Federal
Entitlement
Expansion
I was just going to ask if any of our fantastic FReepers have looked into who funded the coffee cups.
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