Thread: Is the Obama Administration Behind Astroturf Anti-Tea Party

Is the Obama Administration Behind An Astroturf Anti-Tea Party Website?

Sunday, April 18th at 11:08AM EDT
Posted by Erick Erickson 37 Comments

Astroturf is the act of professional interest groups designing campaigns that appear to be grassroots efforts, but are not. It is what the left has accused the tea parties of being. Only more and more it looks like the anti-tea party movement is truly astroturfing.\ Writing on January 15, 2010, Glenn Greenwald at Salon noted Barack Obama’s new head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein, had championed creating fake websites and using outside 501(c)(3) interest groups to act as alleged independent champions of government policy and to “cognitively infiltrateâ€

Sure he is. Obama has badmouthed the tea party and is well documented doing it. What did he call them... "insignificant" and claimed he "didn't know anything about the tea parties" last year.

I'm sick of his despicable mockery of Americans. It's unbecoming and inappropriate for a leader of this nation to behave in such a crass manner.

Dixie

Is the Obama Administration Behind An Astroturf Anti-Tea Party Website?

one word....... YES

Originally Posted by Dixie

Sure he is. Obama has badmouthed the tea party and is well documented doing it. What did he call them... "insignificant" and claimed he "didn't know anything about the tea parties" last year.

I'm sick of his despicable mockery of Americans. It's unbecoming and inappropriate for a leader of this nation to behave in such a crass manner.

Dixie

Yes I am sure there is more to come since the tea party movement is not going away! They are desperate to shut it down and the voice of the American people!