Are You a Secret Member of the Tea Party?
o are you a secret member of the Tea Party and don't know it? Here's how to find out, and in the process discover what the Tea Party is really about. Is the mainstream media really telling the truth about the Tea Party?
Start with Rick Santelli's famous February 2009 rant on CNBC after Obama and the Congressional democrats passed the $1 trillion bailout bill and promised to pay for bad mortgages. This rant is what began catalyzing Americans into launching the true grass-roots Tea Party (4:37):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-Jw-5Kx8k
Then watch Glenn Reynolds (of INSTAPUNDIT.COM and PJTV.COM) interview the young Cincinnati Tea Party organizers to see how the Tea Party ACTUALLY got started (9:07):
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid;=86&load;=3445
And here's Bill Whittle and Andrew Klavan with some initial perspectives on what the Tea Party actually is in February 2010 at the first Tea Party Convention in Nashville (starts at about 1 minute into the video):
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid;=419&load;=3037
Then start through the 7 Bill Whittle videos, What We Believe to get a view of what's at the core of Tea Party folks (about 10 minutes each):
Part 1, Small Government
http://www.youtube.com/user/BillWhittleChannel#p/a/u/1/OLD6VChcWCE
Part 2, The Problem with Elitism
http://www.youtube.com/user/BillWhittleChannel#p/a/u/2/D0MESB6VZM4
Part 3, Wealth Creation
http://www.youtube.com/user/BillWhittleChannel#p/u/3/KkXI-MNSb8Q
Part 4, Natural Law
http://www.youtube.com/user/BillWhittleChannel#p/u/4/7TSiJ2Gp058
Part 5, Gun Rights
http://www.youtube.com/user/BillWhittleChannel#p/u/5/kRAw3VWVyD8
Part 6, Immigration
http://www.youtube.com/user/BillWhittleChannel#p/u/6/DnTus_i2aZI
Part 7, American Exceptionalism
http://www.youtube.com/user/BillWhittleChannel#p/u/7/nuv0K8H8ILM
Here's more good Bill Whittle:
Schooling the Hip (7:42):
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid;=56
Flying Solo (10:37)
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid;=56&load;=3207
The Power and Danger of Iconography (8:09)
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid;=56
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