Tag: tea parties

Teabaggers upset Marvel Comics turned them into ’supervillains’

It seems there’s a new third rail in American politics — don’t mess with the Tea Partiers — and Marvel Comics has inadvertently grabbed it with both hands. And even though members of the Tea Party movement have extracted a half-hearted apology and a promised retraction from Marvel, their anger has barely abated.
In a [...]

Tea Party activists bitter about GOP ‘hijacking’ movement

Revelations about the connections between a Republican lobbying firm with a long history of astroturfing and one of the two main factions of “Tea Party” protesters are raising fresh concerns that the GOP has successfully hijacked the right-wing Tea Party movement.
A Libertarian political consultant interviewed by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow agrees that in many places the [...]

Fox promotes tea party leader who calls Barney Frank ‘dancing queen’

Fox News is once more actively promoting the tea party movement, with Gretchen Carlson of Fox & Friends noting enthusiastically on Thursday that “the second national Tea Party Express Tour has covered nearly seven thousand miles!”
Host Steve Doocy then spoke with Tea Party Express co-chair Mark Williams, asking him about “the thousands, and in some [...]