From
The Playboy Mansion,
(See UPDATE below for working link.) or somewhere in the Central Time Zone, comes word that the incredibly successful Teabagging Parties nation-wide were total shite; apparently the whole thang was not only a failure, but not the failure of a bunch of disconnected, random "grassroots" something or others, but a planned in advance failure.
Talk about the "liberal elite bias left wing media." This Santelli douche, who allegedly started the whole thing, would appear to have hijacked his employer's air & cable waves to promote his own little deal, which would then appear to pop up spontaneously. (Let a thousand teabags bloom!)
Almost immediately, the clip and the unlikely "Chicago tea party" quote buried in the middle of the segment, zoomed across a well-worn path to headline fame in the Republican echo chamber, including red-alert headlines on Drudge.
Who's behind all this?
[T]he Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society.
[...]
It’s not difficult to imagine how Santelli hooked up with this crowd. A self-described “Ayn Rand-er,” one of Santelli's colleagues at CNBC, Lawrence Kudlow, played a major role in both FreedomWorks and the Club for Growth.
So today’s protests show that the corporate war is on, and this is how they’ll fight it: hiding behind “objective” journalists and “grassroots” new media movements. Because in these times, if you want to push for policies that help the super-wealthy, you better do everything you can to make it seem like it’s “the people” who are “spontaneously” fighting your fight. As a 19th century slave management manual wrote, “The master should make it his business to show his slaves, that the advancement of his individual interest, is at the same time an advancement of theirs. Once they feel this, it will require little compulsion to make them act as becomes them.” (Southern Agriculturalist IX, 1836.) The question now is, will they get away with it, and will the rest of America advance the interests of Koch, Santelli, and the rest of the masters?
Plenty of info between the parts we excerpted. A telling quote, from the authors of the item:
As veteran Russia reporters, both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements to influence and control the political landscape.
Also mentioned is the DontGo movement, where we found the "
regular" AmeriKKKans. And there's no question
these two ninnies were
working from talking points. "Common ground. Common ground. Common ground. Did I say it enough?"
While we didn't type a word previously, you don't think, perhaps, also, the "common ground" they're hoping to work up could be based on a dislike for certain types of people in certain positions, rather than some sort of economic crap? Certainly, more people will have to buy into a lot of fantasy to believe that the advancement of the already filthy rich will ever help them. And many who do see where their economic interest truly lies will nonetheless be influenced by what Americans are too cowardly to talk about. We're not saying anything here, we don't want any cards pulled on us, but, you know, it could happen. I mean, "No one likes a guy who we don't where he was born in in the charge of the White House," if we may drop into a little wing-typing there. (No, that wasn't one of those passing strokes. Yet.)
UPDATE (2 March 2009 @ 1440 PDT): Looks as if Hugh Hefner has been co-opted by the Kochs. Here, however, is the original Playboy Politics post, as preserved by Exiled Online.
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