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Olan Black · 03-25-2014, 07:34 PM

The so called grass roots American Tea party is nothing but a big farce.

the so called mastermind Rick Santelli had purchased the webspace months before he did his rant (a normal indicator of planning), and then claimed the next day that it was a grass roots organization that started after his rant (see link #1)

this whole tea party mess will only benefit whatever big corporation that is funding this all, with a few minor league people getting a slice also. Conservatives want nothing but business as usual. and if they get in, they will take the next 10 years fleecing the US, and blaming it on the Democrats

ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the "Sam Adams Alliance," whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public. Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots "tea party" protests going on today. All of these roads ultimately lead back to a more notorious rightwing advocacy group, FreedomWorks, a powerful PR organization headed by former Republican House Majority leader Dick Armey and funded by Koch money.

On the same day as Santelli's rant, February 19, another site called Officialchicagoteaparty.com went live. This site was registered to Eric Odom, who turned out to be a veteran Republican new media operative specializing in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns. Last summer, Odom organized a twitter-led campaign centered around DontGo.com to pressure Congress and Nancy Pelosi to pass the offshore oil drilling bill, something that would greatly benefit Koch Industries, a major player in oil and gas. Now, six months later, Odom's DontGo movement was resurrected to play a central role in promoting the "tea party" movement.