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Originally Posted by roachboy
taibbi tells the story of the birth of the second-generation tea party in the tea & crackers article i linked above. the article is quite good...well worth a read. but here's the origin:
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That's pretty funny, RB, you rant about infotainment then post a great example of infotainment.
I had a moment of deja-vu when I read this sentence
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She then issues an oft-repeated warning (her speeches are usually a tired succession of half-coherent one-liners dumped on ravenous audiences like chum to sharks) to Republican insiders who underestimated the power of the Tea Party Death Star. "Buck up," she says, "or stay in the truck."
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I thought it might have been a parody of Obama's crying to members of the democratic party about how they haven't been backing him lately.
Matt might want to hire a fact checker if he expects to be taken seriously as a journalist
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No, what had Santelli all worked up was Obama's "Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan," a $75 billion program less than a hundredth the size of all the bank bailouts
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When did this $7.5 trillion bank bailout occur? That doesn't seem to have made the news for some reason.
The article is entertaining. It's as if a conservative reporter went to the Democratic national convention and described the attendees there as being all welfare recipients and drug addicts. Maybe Matt's trying for a job as a reporter for Truthout or one of the other loony websites.