CNN: All Tea Party, All The Time

Erick Erickson just wasn't enough for CNN. No, they had to go just a little farther into Tea Party land and hire Dana Loesch, editor-in-chief of Andrew Breitbart's Big Government and St. Louis Tea Party wingnut. Here's a bit about Loesch

By Karoli Kuns

02/14/11 03:00 pm

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Here's a bit about Loesch from some research I did last year.

Andrew Breitbart, Bill Hennessy and Dana Loesch are also associated with American Majority. American Majority is funded by the Sam Adams Alliance. The Sam Adams Alliance has a newly-established relationship with close Dick Armey associate and former chief of staff Denis Calabrese. Denis Calabrese is also founder and principal of The Patriot Group, a lobbying firm established with the goal of "lobbying with backbone."

Hennessy's most recent post links to the American Majority 'grassroots summit' in Kansas City this weekend. One of the featured speakers is Eric O'Keefe, Chairman of the Sam Adams Alliance, also on the board of Wisconsin Club for Growth and a former director of Americans for Limited Government. ALG has been associated with Howard Rich and Grover Norquist.

Scroll down a bit further on the page and you'll find the Koch connection through the Americans for Prosperity Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska sponsorships.

So it goes once again. These so-called grass roots activists are really all just part of the thug wing of the Republican party. If we were to analyze the DNA of the St. Louis Tea Party, we'd find Jack Abramoff, Grover Norquist, Charles Koch, and a bunch of College Republicans on the main strand.

Here she is defending the guy who brought a gun to a town hall meeting, discovered only after it fell out of his pocket:

compulsive liars and name-callers guarantees them a seat in the 9th circle of electoral journalism hell, where they can promote the Tea Party as some kind of legitimate political force instead of the wad of corporate money and magical smoke to hide the carnival mirrors.

Here's a blurb from their announcement:

CNN is gearing up for the election season with the addition of political contributors from across the ideological spectrum. Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher, conservative commentator Will Cain, and local Tea Party leader and radio talk show host Dana Loesch will appear across the network’s prime time programs, as well as other dayparts and platforms.

Oooh, so we can look forward to commentary like this, where she defends poor lil Christine O'Donnell from the sharky liberals?

#TeaNN instead of @CNN. It's just more descriptive.

Videos: h/t Heather

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