Conspiracy of Fear: The Left’s Program to Destroy the Tea Parties

Written By : Donald Douglas

I wrote yesterday about the “black ‘copter tea party” meme, which is the latest MSM/netroots initiative to discredit and marginalize the tea party movement. In the wake of Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts (where grassroots activists and tea party tweeps helped propel Brown’s campaign to victory) you might have noticed the ratcheted effort on the left to demonize and destroy the tea parties. This week’s renewed debate over Sarah Palin and the right’s crazy “birthers” is just the lastest manifestation. But note that beneath the left’s condescension, there’s a real fear that the resurgent right will make an earthquake comeback in November, with a likely Republican recapture of one or both chambers of the Congress. This scenario could very well destroy the Obama administration’s policy agenda, not to mention Democratic prospects in 2012.

I’m thinking about this after finding this Jennifer Rubin essay, “Fox Uncovers Anti-Tea-Party Slush-Fund Scam” (via TigerHawk and Instapundit). Jennifer cites a Fox News report, “Anti-Tea Party Web Site Part of Scheme to Funnel Funds.” And she notes:

Fox has the list of donors, which comprises a set of interlocking slush-type funds that pay for the anti–Tea Party campaign. The largest of these is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME,) which has kicked in a total of $9.9M in a single year to two funds that provide the cash for the non-grassroots movement. Yes — government workers’ money is being used to fend off Tea Party protesters.

It seems that the Tea Party movement, once defamed and derided, now poses a threat to the liberal establishment, so much so that they are collecting millions to undermine it. Conservatives shouldn’t object to political speech — which this is. But there is certainly grounds to object to the chicanery, the lack of transparency, and the pretense that the opponents of the Tea Parties are themselves grassroots activists. They aren’t — this is Big Labor and assorted liberal-interest groups once again doing the bidding of the Democratic party. And if not for Fox, no one would be any the wiser.

It’s the left’s own conspiracy, actually, and it’s a big one.

One little correction to Jennifer’s post, however: Actually, Jim Hoft reported previously on organized labor’s initiatives to kill the tea parties. See, “Confirmed: “Tea Party Is Over” Website Is Funded By SEIU.” Jim is relying on Lee Doren’s investigative research. And I posted on this previously myself: “SEIU Tied to ‘Tea Party is Over’ Smear Outfit.”

But Jennifer’s right about Fox News. No other outlets are touching this stuff. It’s way too damaging to the secretive cabals that prop up the Obamedia Industrial Complex.

Video Hat Tip: “Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration” (via Sisterhood of the Mommy Patriots). Click “captions” at the YouTube, lower right, for the lyrics.

Cross-posted from American Power.

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Mike_M

Let them try. The left has no capability to destroy the Tea Parties because they don’t understand them.

They’ve tried to use Alinsky tactics in underminig the Tea parties but those are geared towards personally destroying individuals. The left can’t personalize and polarize a movement that has no clear leader. Their attempts at ridicule have come off as desperate and at worst comically backfiring (if they call them “teabaggers”, who is the “teabagee”?). They don’t dare send SEIU thugs into crowds of people likely to own guns. Furthermore, the left can’t shape the message through tht media because the Tea Parties are bypassing it.

This is the left’s worst nightmare, and their only real recourse would be to take the risk and send in the thugs, or as they’ve done throughout history and try to ban them altogether (likely through trumped up charges of terrorism or something equally ridiculous).
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Easiest way to destroy the Tea Party is to get every crank, freak, and kook to join and pretend they go along with it, then push it to the left by getting involved in the leadership.
Jack Schite

So the left can destroy the country but not the mad hatters? That’s rich.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

If anyone ever wants to question the patriotism and love of the left for their country and its heritage and history, just read the comment above me. Making fun of the Boston Tea Party and what it meant, not to mention the American people for daring to disagree with the Democrats, proves the left’s contempt for their own nation and its people.
http://regularguy regularguy

The plan, and there really isn’t one, is working perfectly. Let the “establishment” project their cynicism and arrogance all the more. The movement and its concept are far too amorphous for these nit-wits to get their hands around, and sadly, that includes many incumbent Republicans. Impostors to the movement will be purged from within, and the left will fail to estimate their political peril before it’s too late at the polls. Republicans would do very well if they simply, genuinely, re-establish its former conservative values to co-opt any outsider candidate the Tea Party supports. They should beware, though, the movement will hold accountable those incumbents with record contrary to their campaign rhetoric, as well it should.
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CoolCzech

I think the Left’s fear of a Republican comeback is misguided.

After all: how much less effective could Obama be after 11/12 than he was right up to Scot Brown’s election, WITH a Supermajority in the Senate and overwhelming control of the House?

What a pathetic joke this guy.

But thank God Palin never became Vice President, what a close call! (Eyes Roll)

Why… Palin scribbled 8 words on her palm, just like a certain Democratic Senator got caught doing…

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/13/video-feinstein-used-hand-notes-in-1990/

God, I hate mentally retarded Democrats.
D-Vega

The right whines now about the same demonization tactics that they used against the left for decades.

Stop whining about how mean the opposition is and get to work. The Tea Party is already showing signs of fringe and establishment moles.

No one fears them, except for elected Reps, but they should be scrutinized and attacked for what they say and what they stand for. Get over it.

Debbie Spend-it-now is selling America’s future to the Chinese

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