Richard Mourdock, Tea Party Candidate, Not Quite Sure How Tea Party Started
It could help if YOU got your facts checked. The "Tea Party" was some buzz by mostly Republican activitists who wanted a new brand because the old Republican brand was so tarnished. They were going nowhere, ever, except that the Rupert Murdoch, Koch Brothers Axis was looking for a wedge into the Republican party which they could control.
Murdoch mouthpiece Glenn Beck created a "912 DC Rally" funded by the och brothers Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity. The whole thing was tested in April of that year with local "tea party" rallies which were amplified and magnified by Murdock's Fox News media empire.
The Koch brothers had assembled a 400,000 name mailing list which included phone numbers and emails over several decades, principally through "Citizens for a Sound Economy", but als through "Reason Foundation" and "Cato Institute" which they hold absolute domination. They mergered dying Jack Kemp's "Empower America" email-phone-address list, when CSE split in two in 2004 and became Freedomworks and AFP. This gave them access to nearly 800,000 names, phone numbers and email addresses.
They already owned auto-dialing computers capable of making mass pre-recorded phone calls, called robo-callers, and they already were used to mobilizing campaigns of easily deluded people through whipping up support for the tobacco mafia through "smoker's freedom" front groups.
Buying a bus was easy -- Koch's already had a fleet of buses and even hot air balloons touring the country, getting free publicity from every whistlestop local newspaper starved for anything out of the ordinary. Who exactly put up the money for the "Tea Party Express Bus Tour" will never be certain without subpoena power, but the bus had embedded Fox News reporters and was given literally hours of Fox stations coverage. A controversy erupted when a Fox producer was videoed orchestrating fake "spontanious applause" at one of the whistlestops, and a clip may still exist on YouTube.com or Media Matters.com.
The Tea Party Express ended up at the Koch-controlled stage at Murdock's-Beck's 9-12DC rally. Simultaneous local rallies were orchestrated around the country and were magnified by Murdock's Fox media.
There was no "Howard Beall" "Network" (1976 movie) shouting something like we're mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore. It took lots of employees spending billionaire cash to create the Koch-Murdoch wing of the Republican Party with the Tea Party brand lable.
If you are no good at investigating the NEWS, especially manufactured "News" from organized crime gangs who have paid $55,000,000 in CRIMINAL pollution fines and sent their top editors to prison for phone hacking CRIMES, then I suggest you get a different form of career.
