CNN - "Coffee vs. Tea: A political movement is brewing" - Irony! Freedomworks Complains...

[TomCADem]

...about astroturfing. That is right, Tea Party corporate sponsor and organizer, Freedomworks complains about liberal astroturfing in the Coffee Party! This must be one of the more clear examples of Republican projection yet!

Of course, CNN makes no mention of the fact that Freedom Works is headed by Republican political operative and lobbyist Dick Armey, who specialized in supplying grassroots support for his corporate clients. You want to drill in Alaska, then viola, a crowd of Drill Babby Drill supporters will be delivered to your local congressperson.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/13/coffee.party/

Washington (CNN) -- Is the Coffee Party on the scale of the Tea Party movement? Saturday is the first big test in attempting to answer that question.

Leaders of the fledgling movement say they plan to hold 350 to 400 events at coffeehouses across the country. While the Coffee Party has become an instant hit online, gauging the success of Saturday's coast-to-coast events could be an indicator of the group's strength.

"We need to wake up and work hard to get our government to represent us," says Annabel Park, the movement's founder.

Angry at what she perceived as media overexposure of the conservative Tea Party movement, Park, a 41-year-old Washington-area documentary filmmaker, used her Facebook page to call for a Coffee Party.

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So what does the Tea Party movement think of this new sensation?

"This Coffee Party looks like a weak attempt at satire or a manufactured response to a legitimate widespread grass-roots movement," says Brendan Steinhauser, director of federal and state campaigns for FreedomWorks, a nonprofit conservative organization that helps train volunteer activists and has provided much of the organizational heft behind the Tea Party movement.

[gkhouston]

1. the harder CNN pushes it, the more it looks like astroturf funded by RW $$$. n/t

[Grand Taurean]

2. Fox "News" sister channel CNN strikes again!

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Actually, I like the fact that they identified her as ...

"director of federal and state campaigns for FreedomWorks, a nonprofit conservative organization that helps train volunteer activists and has provided much of the organizational heft behind the Tea Party movement" which seems to make it pretty clear that the Tea Party is pretty reliant on outside support and planning, even direction. Of course, a lot of people (and maybe the editor :) ) will read right over that without comprehension.