great article!
recommended.
But don't tell this to GOP media echo chamber, they want to call this a political "movement" (in this way, they too can participate, be swept up in(it's fun!), the media event! The M$M people love 'events', floods, earth quakes, oil spills, whatever. It gives them something to talk about on tv!!). OF course, the talkiing heads of M$M are no smarter than the goof-ball losers who are being incited and manipulated by the GOP out-'riggers'.
Paris Hilton became a celebrity because she was talked about by enough media types. Kim Kardashian became a celebrity by becoming a
amateur porn star (it's more appealing to people to pretend she's not a skank!). Fux (-you) News has taken 'reality tv' to the political arena. Fox news told people, you don't have to think about anything, or KNOW anything ("we will tell you what you think") to be in a movement or to be on tv (...for being part of a 'movement'). Just must make a lot of noise and act the village idiot. People will think you
must be sincere to make such an ass of yourself.
Tea-partiers can't articulate what they are FOR, only what they are against! I submit, a 'movement' without objectives is not a movement. All these supposed 'grass' roots, spontaneous exhibitions are as spontaneous as the exhibitions in Soviet Union on May Day. Only in this case they are driven by Fox News and Tea Parry Express (brainchild of GOP operatives). But this is more stuff the M$M will hear (and say) nothing of!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35785.htmlJust days after the first widespread tea party demonstrators hit the streets a year ago Thursday, Joe Wierzbicki, a Republican political consultant with the Sacramento firm Russo Marsh + Rogers, made a proposal to his colleagues that he said could “give a boost to our PAC and position us as a growing force/leading force as the 2010 elections come into focus.”
The proposal, obtained by POLITICO, was for a nationwide tea party bus tour, to be called the Tea Party Express, which over the past seven months has become among the most identifiable brands of the tea party movement. Buses emblazoned with the Tea Party Express logo have brought speakers and entertainers to rallies in dozens of small towns and big cities, including one in Boston on Wednesday that will feature former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Aided by campaign-style advance work and event planning, slick ads cut by Russo Marsh, impressive crowds and a savvy media operation, the political action committee run by Wierzbicki, Russo Marsh founder Sal Russo and a handful of other Republican operatives has also emerged as among the prolific fundraising vehicles under the tea party banner. Known as Our Country Deserves Better when it was founded during the 2008 election as a vehicle to oppose Barack Obama’s campaign for president, the PAC saw its fundraising more than quadruple after it took the Tea Party Express public in July, raising nearly $2.7 million in roughly the following six months, compared with less than $600,000 in the preceding six months, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
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