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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2010 17 Comments
After the sophomoric “F*ck Tea” campaign started by a prominent progressive organizer hit the internet this week, I wondered, what ever happened to the Coffee Party. Apparently, not much. The Coffee Party has grown cold, as this August 4, 2010, post on the Coffee Party...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2010 9 Comments
Dave Weigel was the first Journolista to fall in the recent Daily Caller series. Weigel was fired from his blog at The Washington Post (resignation accepted) after emails in which he bad-mouthed conservatives were revealed. Weigel ended up at Slate.com, owned by WaPo. Weigel either...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2010 9 Comments
According to The Guardian, neo-Nazi groups are on the rise in Mongolia in reaction to increased domination by ethnic Chinese: Dayar Mongol threatened to shave the heads of women who sleep with Chinese men. Three years ago, the leader of Blue Mongol was convicted of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2010 18 Comments
The Washington Post, among other mainstream media outlets, relentlessly stokes claims that Tea Partiers are racist. Eugene Robinson accuses almost everyone who opposes the Obama agenda — but particularly those active in the Tea Party movement — of being motivated by racism and prone to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 08, 2010 3 Comments
of the British election has let Prime Minister Gordon Brown have it, via The Telegraph. LGF and TPM are searching for a Tea Party connection, Andrew Sullivan thinks Palin had something to do with it, Paul Krugman considers it an incitement to violence, Count Frankula...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2010 11 Comments
Another day, some more agitation by the Obama administration and Agitprop by the mainstream media, this time directed by Obama himself at Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk radio hosts. This country is boiling over, after over a year of a strategy of crazy, in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2010 22 Comments
Despite their worst intentions, the people who try to tie every act of violence to the Tea Party movement are going to have trouble spinning the Pentagon shooting by J. Patrick Bedell. It has become pretty clear pretty quickly that Bedell sufferred from Bush Derangement...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2010 6 Comments
A deranged professor killed several fellow professors. The media and nutroots tried to blame the Tea Party movement even though there was no connection. A census worker was killed under mysterious circumstances. The media and nutroots tried to blame the Tea Party movement even though...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2010 8 Comments
Not surprisingly, Scott Brown is a target for Think Progress, which regularly distorts what conservatives say as part of the Democrats’ strategy to paint all opponents as extremist and crazy. TP ran the following headline yesterday related to the attack by Joe Stack who crashed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2010 25 Comments
There is no actual link between Alabama-Hunstville shooter Amy Bishop and the Tea Party movement. By all accounts, Bishop was extremely liberal and a huge Obama fan (to the point of being described by someone who knew her as being obsessed with Obama). But in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2009 15 Comments
Yow. Per Rasmussen poll just released (h/t HotAir), Tea Party Tops GOP on Three-Way Generic Ballot: In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 30, 2009 4 Comments
Bruce Ackerman, a prominent constitutional law professor at Yale Law School, warned against the tactic of “stealth” Supreme Court nominations, where an ideologically driven President who seeks to change the direction of the Supreme Court nominates a relatively undistinguished appeals court judge whose lack of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2009 25 Comments
Liberal bloggers and media groups can’t get the Tea Party phenomenon out of their heads. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, to them. Ordinary people getting together to protest against the liberal establishment. There is a cognitive disconnect. There must be a plot; the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2009 0 Comments
The New York Times is running a profile story on Eric Cantor, Republican congressman from Virginia, and House Minority Whip. By NY Times standards, this is a fairly soft piece; certainly not the hit job the Times has run on other Republicans. Nonetheless, the story...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2009 2 Comments
As an early teen, I was fascinated with Abbie Hoffman’s “Steal This Book.” The book, by the 60’s radical Yippie, was a guide to using the capitalist system to destroy the capitalist system. Hoffman gave advice on how to cheat various institutions, such as the...
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