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Taken together,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks (another far-right political group seeded by the Kochs) and Murdoch’s News Corp, owner of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, form the corporate headquarters of a conglomerate one might call Tea Party, Inc. This is the syndicate that funds the organizing, crafts the messages, and channels the rage of conservative Americans at their falling fortunes into an oppositional force to President Obama and to any government solution to the current economic calamity. Groups such as Tea Party Express, Tea Party Nation, and the FreedomWorks-affiliated Tea Party Patriots; the bevy of political consultants for hire; and various allied elected officials can be understood as Tea Party, Inc.’s loosely affiliated subsidiaries. The Web sites of FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity and the Tea Party side projects of Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck are linked with those of Tea Party Express and Tea Party Patriots, all of which in turn solicit support for Tea Party candidates.
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No it gets better…
The Tea Party has plenty of DIVERSE-TEA.
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But it has now become clear that these Tea Party “outsiders” are all part of an inside game,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a battle for control of the Republican party.
Though billed as a people’s movement,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Tea Party wouldn’t exist without a gusher of cash from oil billionaire David H. Koch and the vast media empire of Rupert Murdoch. Many of the small donations to Tea Party candidates have been cultivated by either Fox News Channel, a property of Murdoch’s News Corporation, or the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, chaired by Koch. The movement’s major organizations are all run,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], not by first-time, mad-as-hell activists, but by former GOP officials or operatives.
Win or lose, the Tea Party movement will come away from next week’s elections triumphant, having injected into the Republican Party a group of candidates pledged to the dismantling of government and wed to the religious right. Of the movement’s dozen favored candidates for U.S. Senate, all are anti-abortion,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and five oppose it even in cases of rape and incest. Among their number are Colorado’s Ken Buck, who has compared homosexuality to alcoholism, and Nevada’s Sharron Angle, who wants to demolish both the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency. Major GOP players, from political strategist Karl Rove to former Bush speechwriter David Frum, have fretted publicly over Tea Party extremism, with Frum complaining of the movement’s “paranoid delusions.”
The armies of angry white people with their “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, the actual grassroots activists, are not the agents of the Tea Party revolt, but its end users, enriching the Tea Party’s corporate owners just as you and I enrich Google through our clicks.
Adele M. Stan?destroys them…er…reports:

Today in totally unsurprising news, it turns out that the Tea Party “movement” isn’t a large organic grassroots uprising of the common folk against the oversized government.? An investigation by Alternet and The The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute looks at?the Tea?Party movement from an even different angle than the NAACP, it follows the money.? Turns out it isn’t coming from individual donations from Joe Middleclass Republican in Kansas, it’s coming from corporate and special interests.
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