Outcrazying The Crazy: How A Prankster Plans To Infiltrate And Destroy The Tea Party Movement

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Outcrazying The Crazy: How A Prankster Plans To Infiltrate And Destroy The Tea Party Movement

by Evan McMorris-Santoro

Meet Jason Levin: possibly the scariest man in the tea party universe. An Oregon technology consultant, Levin is the leader of Crash The Tea Party, a plan to take down the tea party from the inside. Levin says he's got a growing cadre of supporters across the country, and conservatives from the message boards to the set of the Sean Hannity's show are getting nervous.

"Our plan is not to shout them down," Levin told me yesterday, "but to infiltrate them and push them farther from the mainstream."

The scheme reads like a sequel to "Being John Malkovich": Levin's group of protesters plan to get in the heads of tea partiers at the Tax Day Tea Parties nationwide Thursday and manipulate them right out of relevance. They'll dress like tea partiers, talk like tea partiers and carry signs like tea partiers. In fact, according to Levin they'll be completely indistinguishable from tea partiers, except for one thing -- they won't be out-crazied by anyone.

"Our goal is that whenever a tea partier says 'Barack Obama was not born in America,' we're going be right right there next to them saying, 'yeah, in fact he wasn't born on Earth! He's an alien!" Levin explained. He said that by making the tea parties sound like a gathering of crazy people -- his group's goal -- the movement will lose its power.

Levin said he got the idea from a counter-protest to the infamous Westboro Baptist Church group held outside Twitter headquarters in January. Levin said the Westboro group broke up after counter-protesters showed up holding signs "even crazier" than the ones held by the Westboro group. "They realized they couldn't get their message out, so they just left" Levin said.

On the Crash The Tea Party website, managed by Levin, he explains how the plan will work. "Whenever possible, we will act on behalf of the Tea Party to exaggerate their least appealing qualities (misspelled protest signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc.)"

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Plan to infiltrate tea party with crazies will only call all tea party crazies into question

:crazy: I'm getting dizzy.

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Levin's plan, however well meaning, is guaranteed to have the exact opposite effect of its intention. This is only going to make the tea parties more legitimate, not less.

[alstephenson]

1. His web site has been over-run with Teabaggers leaving (surprise!) nasty messages.

Looks like his plan may have back-fired.

[gatorboy]

16. Actually they were the FIRST to leave messages.

Which makes me suspicious.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. More legitmate or less legit

He is alreeady causing paranoia amongst an already hyper paranoid population. I posted that on another post tonight/referenced some posts from readers at the Breitbart site. They are talking about posting signs on the backs of the really obnoxious at rallys, beating them up . . .

The more I think about it - these crazies are going to run with this concept, real or not, and start eating their own. It's only a matter of time. :rofl:

[xultar]

3. Luckily his real plan is working....Shhhhhhhhhhhh don't tell.

[Richard Steele]

4. At the end of the day, his efforts will have empowered them.

He imagines that they are attempting to appeal to SANE people.
He is very much mistaken.

His efforts will do more than FAIL- they will backfire.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. Now see

I think he knows they're all insane. I really do. And I think at those Tea Parties on Thursday? It's going to be one big mass of paranoid people . . . wondering who the 'crasher' is.

[Richard Steele]

15. Their brains aren't big enough to "wonder". You are overestimating them.

Their brains are barely big enough to HATE things.
They aren't actually smart enough to be TRICKED.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. You made me laugh!

:rofl: Thanks! :fistbump: I just came from another forums 'political board' - and I realize - you are correct. :rofl:

[bluestateguy]

5. The FBI used similar tactics against the Black Panthers

COINTELPRO, remember?

[caty]

7. I could see this working to a certain extent.

The more intelligent independent voters will not want to be associated with an insane ignorant bunch like the Tea Party.

[MerryBlooms]

8. Idiotic, no matter what his motives are.

No one is infiltrating the 'baggers. This is total bullshit and I think Levin is probably an upper ranking 'officer' in the 'bagger hierarchy.

I think Levin will be appearing on InsHannity or Beckkk, very soon and get a thorough tongue lashing - not necessarily on air. lol

[Enrique]

9. imo Levin works for Breitbart

this stinks of Breitbart.

[MerryBlooms]

13. It sure does. n/t

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[Birthmark]

10. I wish he'd STFU

I'm trying to do something, you know? He ain't making my life any easier.

[Champion Jack]

11. out stupid the stupid?

Can it be done?

[Grand Taurean]

12. Sounds like a right wing plant intended to discredit

the teaparty critics.

[sendero]

14. Ideas like this..

... work a lot better if they are not publicized. A LOT better.

[WeDidIt]

17. Apparently, he has succeeded in striking paranoia into an already paranoid bunch

I don't think they need to actually do anything. They've already insured the teabaggers won't trust each other now.

[LostInAnomie]

18. Stupid plan, IMHO.

All this idea will do is allow the teabaggers plausible deniability. Now, whenever someone catches them with a racist sign, or making laughably idiotic statements they can say "They're not really one of us! They were sent here to make us look bad!"