‘Tea Party’ is over: Ex-activist says racism, hypocrisy killed the movement
Opinion

by Phil Russo | April 9, 2013 at 1:16 PM

I always defended the Tea Party against charges of racism. And then last week, someone with whom I am Facebook “friends” posted something extremely racist and I called her out on it. Immediately, her friends jumped down my throat, calling me a liberal and saying I wasn’t a real tea partier, despite the fact that I was one of 10 people on the first Tea Party conference calls back in January of 2009.

That was just one of many wake-up calls.

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I am glad Mr. Russo woke up eventually, but he must be one of those deep sleepers that need multiple alarm bells to wake him up.

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And then, the Dick Army’s of the political world started to creep in and take over the movement. They were very slick about it. They started giving all of these individual Tea Party groups money so people who were selling real estate six months earlier could now make a living watching Fox News and blogging, or posting on Twitter and Facebook.

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Further confirmation many of these right wing blogos and forums are paid off shills. There is no way that the right wing membership can be that uniform in message along so many mediums like television, radio and the internet forums unless there was some sort of organization disseminating talking points and paying people off to spout them.