Tea Parties Aren't Grassroots-They're Work Of Corporate Lobbyists-FOX & TOP-Hired Gun-Dick Armey

[kpete]

Matt Taibbi: "...it’s all just sad, manipulated lost Americans railing against the wrong thing,
a pitiful made-up Fox show."
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/04/14/americas-peasant-mentality/


Dick Armey’s Clients Required The Bailouts That Armey’s FreedomWorks Is Now Protesting

As ThinkProgress has been documenting, the anti-Obama “tea parties” going on today are not the “grassroots” effort that organizers claim, but are actually the work of corporate lobbyists, aided and abetted by Fox News. Lee Fang pointed out that one of those lobbyists — former Majority Leader and current FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey (R-TX) — is one of DC’s top “hired guns,” and FreedomWorks is one of those orchestrating the “grassroots” tea party movement.

With the tea parties, FreedomWorks is organizing protests against “a federal government run amok with economic bailouts.” However, Armey’s lobbying firm represented three of the financial behemoths that brought the economy to its knees, necessitating such a widespread government response in the first place. In just the last year, Armey’s firm, DLA Piper, has represented:

- American International Group (AIG)

- Lehman Brothers

- Merrill Lynch

The reasons for the lobbying listed on these institutions’ disclosure forms range from “Congressional hearings on financial services crisis” and tax issues to simply “policies affecting securities firms.” DLA Piper also represented TARP recipient Discover Financial Services.

much more (too many links to cut & paste):
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/04/15/armey-financial-giants/

[Hello_Kitty]

1. Jesus God. eom

[slay]

2. Pretty sick huh?

You think I'd be used to these assholes and their sick tactics by now.. :puke: Recommended.

[Jamastiene]

3. Why am I not surprised that all this teabagging includes a Dick Armey?

It just keeps getting more and more ridiculous. What will we tell the children?

[blogslut]

4. Here's a WHOIS clue

When looking up for WHOIS info on one of these "grass roots" wingnut sites, look for the registrant name, http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Grassfire.org">grassfire.org. Not all of these sites are produced by them but a preponderance of them are.

[Stagecoach]

5. That's what disgusts me

The media needs to stop with the charades that this is a "grassroots" event. It's not. It's funded by corporates, yet they line up just enough people to give it an appearance of a grassroots event.

It makes no sense. Why would people who are getting taxed less go out and protest about being taxed more? These corporates might as well be telling these protesters, "Help us get taxed less, so you can be taxed more.....and remember, while we're getting taxed less and you're getting taxed more, you, too will be rich someday, too.....keep believing that, suckers".

[lame54]

6. For that many Tea-Bags - you would need a Dick Army

[Jamastiene]

7. You forgot to add:

What will we tell the children?

:hide:

[theboss]

8. I've got news for you: No large scale activism in this country is grassroots

Which is kind of sad.

And why is AIG against corporate bailouts?

[Beam Me Up]

9. One of my mottoes: The best way to thwart a revolution is to lead it. n/t

[sarcasmo]

10. This is what drives me nuts about this whole thing. White working class people out protesting

Thanks to Propaganda from Corporations, I just don't get the stupidity.

[Stagecoach]

11. That's why

This isn't about taxes.....this is about Obama winning last November....but they're using taxes as a disguise to keep from being looked at as sore losers.

[subterranean]

12. That's why FOX is taking great pains to paint them as grass-roots events

They know if they repeat it enough, their viewers will believe it. Like their "Fair and Balanced" slogan. By the way, I wonder why FOX News seems so offended by the lack of coverage by other networks? If it's such an important story, you'd think they'd want to tout their exclusive coverage of it.