‘Official Chicago Tea Party’ distances itself from heckling, by ‘splinter’ tea party group.

[cal04]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/30/tea-party-splinter/

At a town hall event in Illinois earlier this month, tea party activists heckled a woman who recounted how her daughter-in-law and her unborn grandchild died because they didn’t have health insurance. These activists were encouraged to attend the event by the Chicago Tea Party Patriots, which sent around a flier railing against “socialized medicine.” After media outlets reported the heckling, the “Official Chicago Tea Party” was forced to distance itself and firmly denounce the heckling, which it says was carried out by a “splinter group.” The organization’s website is now down, replaced with this message:




The site of the Chicago Tea Party Patriots remains up and running.

[lame54]

1. A splinter in their teabag - OUCH!

[Cha]

2. Their tea leaves are all over the road.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Not to be confused with the Judean People's Front.

(nor the People's Front of Judea)

http://www.zazzle.com/the_peoples_front_of_judea_tshirt-235579203059851345

[Christa]

4. Oh my, how distressing

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


in tears here

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Holy PR Disaster, Batman!

Insensitive assholes behaving like insensitive assholes... who could have seen that coming? :shrug:

[Brickbat]

6. These splits are even more fun to watch than the various far-left infighting.

[barbtries]

7. so they got hate mail

in high volume. :)

[BlueIdaho]

8. none of these folks give a shit about taxes, spending or the deficit.

Their one true unifying core value is hate. Hate anyone and everyone that doesn't look like you - pray like you - talk like you - or live where you live.

Time to call bullshit on this thinly veiled bunch of bigots.

[FarLeftFist]

9. Going Rogue