Rick Santelli and the "tea parties": an astroturfing project of the Koch family?

Playboy (article is just text) ^ | 2/27/09 | Mark Ames and Yasha Levine

[pointsal]

Pfffft!

[Kansas58]

Ah, those idiots at Playboy do realize, don’t they, that a man named AXELROD invented “astroturf” PR campaigns?

[Mr. Jazzy]

Bull shit from porn peddlers.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Good ol' Plaboy magazine, which I only look at for the stories, of course.

[philly-d-kidder]

Hey Playboy they forgot to tell me!! I was still there haha

[pepperhead]

If this is the kind of stories they are writing at Playboy now days all those people that claim they only get it for the articles are going to have to come up with a new story.

[Reddy]

“Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the largest private corporation in America,”

Probably said with disdain and disgust.

The Zero-ites don’t want there to be any private corporations left in America!!

[Da Coyote]

Horrors! It was planned. Too bad it could have been ad hic idiocy like what’s coming from the Obamaloon team.

[Bhoy]

How little they know how disorganzied and spontaneous all these tea parties were. How can we combat these outrageous accusations?

[muawiyah]

This article is a “rant” itself. I gather the writers and editors behind it don’t believe all classes of Americans are entitled to participate in politics.

[Kackikat]

More communist propaganda.

[Crawdad]

I couldn’t get to page two of the article. It was stuck to page three.

[Puddleglum]

gotta defuse the uprising

[Verginius Rufus]

Any criticism of The One must be discredited and the critic demonized. The people must be taught unquestioning faith in their infallible leader.

[FreedomPoster]

Screw this jerk.

I assure you, my appearance at the Georgia Capitol was not sponsored by anyone. And I represented many folks I spoke with who were working and couldn’t make it.

[gwilhelm56]

**Horrors! It was planned. **

Some of the BEST Spontaneous adlibs Are Well rehearsed, just waiting for the RIGHT TIME to be SPRUNG.. As for Rehearsed adlibs... Talk to SLICK WILLY ..he was a MASTER at it.

[FreedomPoster]

OK, now *that’s* funny! LOL!

[marlon]

Let's see, compare and contrast...Santelli works with Billionaires who are free market capitalists who plan an organized protest to stop the takeover of our economy by communists.

Obama works with Billionaire Communists whose sole purpose is to destroy the free market, individualism, liberty, freedom, private property rights and a host of other radical initiatives, including manipulating the markets resulting in the loss of Trillions in private wealth, retirement plans, home equity, etc.

And Playboy has their panties in a twist about Santelli? Wow, talk about misplaced priorities.

[T Lady]

I don't know about you, but the last thing I need right now is a chunk of my hard earned paycheck being needlessly confiscated to subsidize no loads who do nothing more than sit at home watching TV talk shows or hanging out at the local coffee shop swapping B.S. about 'woe is me, woe is me, why can't I find a job?'

Whether there is a larger movement behind the Tea Parties remains to be seen, but to many of us rich or poor, they are a welcome blast of fresh air.

Rick Santelli is an American patriot.