What if King George III sponsored the Boston Tea Party?

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Because that is exactly what is happening with the Chicago Tea Party, the people responsible for our economic mess are telling people to go out and be mad at Obama!

"ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the "Sam Adams Alliance," whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public. Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots "tea party" protests going on today.

On the same day as Santelli's rant, February 19, another site called Officialchicagoteaparty.com went live. This site was registered to Eric Odom, who turned out to be a veteran Republican new media operative specializing in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns.

The Sam Adams Alliance, a nonprofit conservative organization, has started an ambitious project this year to encourage right-leaning activists and bloggers to get online and focus on local and state issues.

And don't bother to ask who is behind the Sam Adams Alliance, because all that is scrubbed:

But it’s the Alliance’s scrubbing of their link to Koch that is most telling. A cached page, erased on February 16, just three days before Santelli’s rant, shows that the Alliance also wanted to cover up its ties to the Koch family."

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/28/202318/053/640/703118

You really can't get any more ironic than this, can you?

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1. Ironic is one word for it, I suppose

Totally predictable from the get-go is another. The very first time I saw a tape of Santelli's rant at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, I said to myself, "What a prefabricated set-up!" And if I saw it, I knew other, smarter people would.

Nice to see my gut feeling confirmed so precisely.