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Progressives have launched the left's version of the Tea Party movement. Dubbed "One Nation," it's a grassroots coalition of 170 liberal and civil rights groups that organizers hope will help the progressive cause regain its voice two years after the election of Barack Obama and "counter the Tea Party narrative," The Washington Post reported. "Having been confronted with the specter of the Tea Party . . . we felt it urgent to organize the majority of this country, which voted in 2008 and has gone back to the couch," said Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP, one of the movement's...

Psst! Two words that dare not escape the pen of Washington Post writer Krissah Thompson: "Coffee Party."Yes, Ms Thompson writes yet another article about a "grassroots" liberal alternative to the Tea Party movement. If you have a feeling of "been there, done that," it is because Thompson's hype about the "One Nation" movement sounds almost identical to all the PR the mainstream media gave to the faded Coffee Party a few months ago. And the reason why Thompson dare not mention the Coffee Party is that it has devolved into a laughable parody of itself with aimless group therapy sessions...

Nothing says "media bias" like coffee in the morning. If anyone ever wanted to see an example of the bias of the Old Media no better example can be found than the different ways that it has treated the tea party movement and the coffee party astroturf effort. The tea party movement was initially ignored, then it was ridiculed, then it was attacked as dangerous, but no where in the Old Media was it treated as a valid, powerful political movement despite the literally millions of Americans that have attended them. On the other hand, the astroturf coffee party effort...

The Craig chapter of the coffee party political movement has lost some momentum. At the coffee party’s Saturday afternoon meeting, organizer Jim Blevins announced that the group might not have any more meetings. His decision was based on attendance, which was limited to three people other than himself. “It seems like there’s just not enough interest,” he said. “I did what I could to promote it, but almost no one is interested in understanding what’s going on.”

Does anyone out there remember the Coffee Parties? You can be forgiven if you have forgotten them. They made a brief appearance due to media driven hype over a month ago and then quickly disappeared from view when they inspired a collective yawn from the public. The photo at right shows a typical Coffee Party "rally" from back then. Typical in that few people showed up to protest against private ownership (aka free enterprise). Even the organizer of the Coffee Party non-movement, Annabel Park, seems to have lost her enthusiasm for the cause as evidenced by her Twitter page. After...

The Coffee Party Heats Up Tired of all the Tea Party talk, Annabel Park decided to throw a Coffee Party—and 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...

The new “Coffee Party,” billed as an alternative to the tea party movement with a focus on cooperation in government, had plans for its first big Tucson event to take place in May. The group had been planning a quiet demonstration in front of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ office to counter the vandalism that resulted in a shattered glass door — which happened many political moons ago after her yes vote in March on health care reform. But just a week after advertising it, the group postponed the event. Organizer Barbara Daviss said her party is instead “very actively involved”...

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...

The self-delusional world in which liberals wallow truly is amazing. It takes an Olympic gymnast's level of agility to warp your logic enough to think like one of them and a recent report on the left-wing blather site Newsvine is yet one more example of the backbreaking contortions that liberals must indulge to make themselves feel better. In this post on the presumed falling numbers of the tea party protests and an amusing subsequent praise of the coffee party effort, this left-winger calling himself "MoeZilla" desperately tried to massage the truth in order to make his losing left appear as...

There is now an organized effort by the radical, George Soros-funded left wing "progressive movement" to literally infiltrate and destroy the Tea Party movement. One site, called Crash the Tea Party (http://www.crashtheteaparty.org), says the following on their so-called home page; "Who We Are: A nationwide network of Democrats, Republicans and Independents who are sick and tired of all that loose affiliation of racists, homophobes and morons; who constitute the fake grass-roots movement which calls itself "The Tea Party." What We Want: To dismantle and demolish the Tea Party by any non-violent means necessary. How We Will Succeed: By infiltrating the...

Well, you really could knock me over with a feather… and a red colored one at that. This coffee party thingie was much more successful than I imagined. You may have heard of this coffee party idea that an Obama operative in Virginia tried to start? It's called Coffee Party CCCP… sorry, I always get that wrong, it's Coffee Party USA and it was started by one Ann Park, an Obama operative and employee of the New York Times. The diminutive Mz Park has deep ties to the Obama campaign and her coffee party effort is classic astroturf and that...

Minutes before Tenisha Idowu opened a strategy session for the Coffee Party Houston on Saturday, she made a confession. “I really do like tea, so much so that I collect little Japanese tea sets,” the 26-year-old graduate student from Port Arthur admitted. “All of my family thought that was hilarious.” The national coffee party movement was born in January, after a documentary filmmaker from Maryland named Annabel Park posted a Facebook status update calling for the creation of a coffee party for those who felt their voices had been drowned out by the conservative tea party movement: “Let's get together...

This just in…Potential identification of the man who threatened to behave in a way which would necessitate his imprisonment if Andrew Breitbart was allowed to remain on a public sidewalk in Searchlight, Nevada.MORE AT LINK

The New York Times and Washington Post are promoting a group called the "Coffee Party" organized by filmmaker Annabel Park. The Coffee Party is a political parasite which presents itself as something it is not. As reported in the NY Times, Park presents herself as not hostile to the Tea Party movement, and in fact, hopes to bring some Tea Partiers into her group: “We’re not the opposite of the Tea Party,” Ms. Park, 41, said. “We’re a different model of civic participation, but in the end we may want some of the same things.” .... Ms. Park and chapter...

The “Coffee Party Movement” came to our attention last week. I waited to discuss it, as it reeked of a “progressive” astroturf operation, and I was waiting for evidence of that to emerge. Today, Newsbusters is reporting just that. "John Roberts and Kiran Chetry omitted mentioning that Annabel Park, the founder of the so-called Coffee Party, worked as a volunteer for President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, during an interview on Wednesday’s American Morning. The anchors also didn’t mention Park’s past work for the liberal New York Times. The founder denied that her movement was aligned to any party, and actually...

Annabel Park, the purported creator of the Coffee Party movement does damage control with the help of CNN, claiming that her movement, aided by Soros-funded organizations and planned at RootsCamp, a left wing organizing workshop held at the teachers union NEA Headquarters, is actually a spontaneous, self-organizing movement. Why I started the Coffee Party By Annabel Park "As the Constitution dictates, we want a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Coffee Party USA is a democracy movement, and our goal is to have the government truly reflect the will of the people." Someone should tell Ms....

Ask anyone in the Tea Party movement and they'll tell you how difficult it is to get any media attention at all, not to mention coverage that is actually fair and accurate, yet the Coffee Party movement sprung up overnight and it's already a media favorite. Find out why and comment here: http://pjtv.com/v/3251

Tea Partiers who think they're onto something special are right. In terms of competing with the organized left, though, Tea Partiers are light years and hundreds of millions of dollars behind.

The weekend of March 13 and 14, 2010 was hailed as the kick-off time for Coffee Parties all across the country which were billed as “the liberal response to the Tea Party movement” as reported by Alex Pappas in the The Daily Caller, dated 03/13/10 in an article titled: “Low-key java drinkers in Washington kick off Coffee Parties.” I think I heard a rumor that two individuals who looked suspiciously out of place went into one Washington, DC designated “Coffee Party” shop looking for a gathering of noisy and speech making revelers and were chagrined to find only two people...

The Coffee Party is an attempt of the left to get back what is theirs and was lost in the arrogance and the hype of the first year of Obama in office. The sweeping Democratic victory in’08 made their leaders insensitive to the folk’s concerns. People who voted for change and realized they got more of the same were chipping off the Democrat Party. The Reagan democrats, the independents were drawn into the tea party movement. The Coffee Party is the proof that Democrats finally realized the Tea Party is not a radical fringe movement, but a safe place for...