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The Tea Party’s Strength is a Figment of the Corporate Media’s Imagination

March 19, 2010 at 9:05 PM 1 comment

I swear to God, the more I learn about the internals of the “tea party” the  more I realize the “movement” and the hype about their “rallies” is a creation of the corporate media.

Take this for example:

Here’s a screenshot of an email I received on February 9, 2010 from the Tea Party Express asking for money to promote and host the “Showdown in Searchlight,” set to begin on March 27:

Note the second to last paragraph:  “To meet our fundraising goal, we need to raise $150,000 in the next 9 days.  We’ve so far raised $21,450 of that amount, so we have $128,550 left to raise.”

Fast forward, not 9 days but 38 days, and here is  a screenshot of a Tea Party Express email I received today:

Note the fourth paragraph:  “We still have a little more than $52,000 that we must raise to fully fund our efforts…”

On February 9, the Tea Party was looking to raise $128,550.  Today, it’s short $52,000.  That means that in 38 days, it raised $76,550.

Compare that to this:

•• Just days after launching a petition drive to raise funds for primary challengers against Democrats who help defeat health care reform, the progressive activist group MoveOn.org has raised more than $1 million.

••  As of Tuesday night, the combined efforts of four liberal groups — MoveOn.org, Daily Kos, Democracy for America and Progressive Change Campaign Committee — had raised $1 million for [Bill] Halter in just 36 hours. (MoveOn was responsible for $900,000 of that.)

So take a look, goddamn corporate media and your Republican backers, at where the fucking energy is.

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