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posted at 4:52 pm on March 2, 2010 by Allahpundit
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Nothing wrong with either of those things but they might have been worth mentioning in last night’s New York Times love letter to this exciting new nonpartisan civic group, might they not? William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has all the links you need, but before you read his post, re-read the Times puff piece and see if you can find any indication that this group skews left. WaPo, to its credit, made that clear in its own profile of the CP, noting that leader Annabel Park used to work for Jim Webb and listing as one of the group’s goals their intent to “push leaders to enact the progressive change for which 52.9 percent of the country voted in 2008.â€

'Grassroots' Coffee Party Organizer Exposed as Obama Political Operative
By P.J. Gladnick
Created 03/02/2010 - 17:47
Surprise! Surprise!

It turns out that the "grassroots" organizer of the "progressive alternative" to the Tea Parties, the Coffee Party [0], has been exposed as an Obama political operative. If you had read the profiles of the Coffee Party founder Annabel Park (photo) in the Washington Post [1] or New York Times [2] you wouldn't have had a hint as to her extensive political activity in the 2008 Obama campaign. So how did William A. Jacobson of Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion [3] discover this "deep secret" that the two major newspapers with their vast resources were unable to find? Well, it required the "tremendous effort" of tapping a few keys and a whole mouse click to find this subject matter as Jacobson explains [4]:

In fact, a simple internet search (which the NY Times apparently is not capable of doing) reveals that Park organized the Coffee Party for the specific purpose of undermining the Tea Party movement.

Park is a former Strategy Analyst [5] at the NY Times who was one of organizers and operators of the United for Obama [6] video channel at YouTube [7]:

A strategy analyst for the New York Times who was one of the organizers for United for Obama? Some grassroots person! Perhaps in the rarified air which Times reporter Kate Zernike breaths. After all she was the same reporter who somehow managed detect [7] racial overtones in the Brooklyn accent of Jason Mattera speaking at CPAC. So what was Zernike's lame excuse for failing to reveal Park's background working as a political operative for Obama? Jacobson provides the laugh lines:

Interesting, I received a phone call from Kate Zernike, the author of the NY Times article, who felt that I did not sufficiently credit her article with disclosing Park's background and motives. Specificially, Zernike pointed out that the Times' article said the Coffee Party "was formed in reaction to the Tea Party" and offered "an alternative" to the Tea Party. Zernike also felt that the pro-Obama nature of the Coffee Party was adequately disclosed because the article pointed out that one of the organizers in California (not Park) had campaigned for Obama.

I explained that I did not feel that the NY Times article adequately disclosed (i) the depth of the connection to the Obama campaign reflected in Park's background, or (ii) that the specific purpose of the Coffee Party, as expressed in Park's Tweets, was to undermine the Tea Party.

I told Ms. Zernike that I would do an update to this post, and I hoped that she would do an update to her article to explain Park's Obama connection and apparent motivations. Ms. Zernike declined, explaining that she had to limit her article to 700 words.

Yeah, and it would have taken another dozen words or so to have explained about Park's political past. Hey, 700 words is the hard cutoff point. Right?

As to Park herself, she was a bit more than disingenuous when she made this claim of solidarity with the Tea Party movement:

“We’re not the opposite of the Tea Party,â€

'Coffee Party' gaining steam
4 min 18 sec
VIDEO
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video ... y.cnn.html

Boy, they're pullin' out all the stops on this one! They must really be askeared of us Patriots!

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Usually it is Tea that is too tepid, and coffee that is too strong. Just the opposite it would appear when applied to political action groups.