"Inside Man: How A Prankster Plans To Destroy The Tea Party Movement"

[jenmito]

"Meet Jason Levin: possibly the scariest man in the tea party universe. An Oregon technology consultant, Levin is the leader of Crash The Tea Party, a plan to take down the tea party from the inside. Levin says he's got a crowing cadre of supporters across the country, and conservatives from the message boards to the set of the Sean Hannity's show are getting nervous.

"Our plan is not to shout them down," Levin told me yesterday, "but to infiltrate them and push them farther from the mainstream."

The scheme reads like a sequel to "Being John Malkovich": Levin's group of protesters plan to get in the heads of tea partiers at the Tax Day Tea Parties nationwide Thursday and manipulate them right out of relevance. They'll dress like tea partiers, talk like tea partiers and carry signs like tea partiers. In fact, according to Levin they'll be completely indistinguishable from tea partiers, except for one thing -- they won't be out-crazied by anyone.

"Our goal is that whenever a tea partier says 'Barack Obama was not born in America,' we're going be right right there next to them saying, 'yeah, in fact he wasn't born on Earth! He's an alien!" Levin explained. He said that by making the tea parties sound like a gathering of crazy people -- his group's goal -- the movement will lose its power."

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Sounds like a great idea! :D

[NJmaverick]

1. On the one hand it sounds like a good idea, on the other it sounds like the perfect

cover for all their racists and anti-democracy comments. With this website every nasty sign, every racial slur, every bigoted comment toward gays, ever death threat will be blamed on "infiltrators".

[Cha]

3. Exactly..although the teabaggers are obviously

easily brainwashed and would believe the President wasn't born on the Planet Earth..the teabaggers who are leading them around by the nose will blame their bigoted racist signs on the infiltrators.

I think the teabaggers don't need any exposure help..look what idiots they already have.

Like when they were spitting on a Black Congressmen and spewing racial slurs at them.. who were only doing their jobs..they already whine enough about being victims.

[jenmito]

4. True. Hmmm...

now I have to re-think my approval of this group. (But there's no way ALL of them could be infiltrators.)

[DrDan]

2. but isn't it comforting to have the teabaggers split the gop?

Not sure I want to see them go away for a while. Their looney behavior just makes the gop look like a bunch of whackos.

[Phx_Dem]

5. Perfect plan, except he shouldn't have told everyone.

Now whenever some racist wackjob spews the crazy, they'll blame it on the "plant."

Still love it though. }(