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Originally Posted by escapee

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The left calls them "right-wing hackery." Uh, no.

The Tea Parties are America's way of saying "stop the looting and start prosecuting."

YouTube - The Tea Parties: What's Really Going On

I just realized why that sounded familiar—that's a quote from Karl Denninger's YouTube video posting about Tea Parties.

Although I agree with a lot of what he said, I think that the "left" is partially right about the Tea Parties being "right-wing hackery."

Unfortunately, nowadays any sort of grassroots movement, whether on the right or the left, can be co-opted by organizations with their own agendas (those serving the Man Behind the Curtain), and this is no different:

"Six weeks ago, two of us (Mark Ames and Yasha Levine) published an investigation[/URL] exposing the nascent “Tea Party” protest movement for what it really is: a carefully planned AstroTurf (or “fake grassroots”) lobby campaign hatched and orchestrated by the conservative advocacy organization FreedomWorks. Within days, pieces of the scam had crumbled, exposing a small group of right-wing think tanks and shady nonprofits at its core."

See: "Exposing The Rightwing PR Machine: Is CNBC’s Rick Santelli Sucking Koch?" (LOL) and "How FreedomWorks Gave The Teabaggers A Dirty Sanchez."