Someday the Teabaggers will realize what dupes they are. Until then, some of America’s most vile villains will rake in the dough.
Whatever your opinion is of the Tea Party movement, one thing is blatantly clear: Being a high-profile "leader" of the small-government movement is huge business.
[Yahoo! News] The movement’s popular appeal (according to the mainstream media) stems from grass-roots outrage over the bailout of America’s financial system, the expanded role of government, and the growing deficits. But the Tea Party has also been aggressively promoted by conservative media, political leaders and advocacy groups — and its broad appeal has blurred the distinctions among the three.
A year into this fledgling political movement’s life, reports are emerging of the huge money being made by Tea Party leaders.
Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck lead the pack of personalities capitalizing on ignorance to earn very easy money, but a few new faces and a few old faces are also getting into the game.
Sarah Palin
Who: Former governor of Alaska, Fox News contributor, author, speaker
1 year Tea Party-generated income: $12 million
Glenn Beck
Who: Fox News host, radio host, author, speaker
1 year Tea Party-generated income: $32 million
Dick Armey
Who: Former House majority leader, former lobbyist, chairman of FreedomWorks
1 year Tea Party-generated income: $550,000
Andrew Breitbart
Who: Web publisher, author, pundit, speaker
1 year Tea Party-generated income: $500,000-plus
Fox News
Who: cable news and opinion network
1 year Tea Party-generated income: unknown
The "movement" most of us see is a small faction of supposedly well-to-do ignoramuses who are furiously angry about nearly everything and display a unique tendency to reduce complicated issues down to moronically simplistic catch-phrases that are often misspelled but easy to shout. The key point to articulate is that these "real Americans" don’t realize they are being played for fools by their so-called "leaders"… [emphasis original]
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I hope that someday these poor fools come to their senses. Sadly, you can lead a Teabagger to wisdom, but you can’t make him think.
6 Responses to “Teabuggery Pays”
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One thing that will not register is the amount of wealth they are generating for their “heroes” and where they are being led to by them.
Mark, where they are being lead seems evident. 😈
The more money they spend to hear these idiots/douchebags speak, the less they’ll have to form a real party and get their agenda on the plate. Good luck assholes.
Good, point, Lisa, but they have a ton of corporate money behind them.
Sadly, these jokers have plenty of money. They will spend any amout they think necessary for no other reason than they hate. For the most part, they don’t even know what they are hating. They just hate.
Too true, Truth.