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Decatur 
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 10:24 am to los angeles tiger)
Feel free to make substantive comments
I find deflections rather boring
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NC_Tigah
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 10:42 am to Decatur)
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Santelli's rant was planted IMO
Santelli's rant may have been encouraged thru conversation with other parties, maybe even the Koch's, but it was not planted. No more than Cramer's "THEY KNOW NOTHING" rant was planted.
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Patrick O Rly 
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y u do dis?
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 10:58 am to Decatur)
You mean people paid to have my political opinions changed?  How come I'm immune to the Democratic or the Green Party? Did they not have enough money? Oh my goodness, the Koch Brothers yall 
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Decatur
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:11 am to NC_Tigah)
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Santelli's rant may have been encouraged thru conversation with other parties, maybe even the Koch's, but it was not planted.
Not to get bogged down in semantics but that is what I was getting at. It certainly was not a spontaneous rant. In fact, Santelli references protests that Koch-affiliated people were already planning.
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Enadious
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:20 am to Decatur)
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A new academic study confirms
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Godfather1
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 12:00 pm to LSUgusto)
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Decatur
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I remember when I valued your contribution.
I don't.
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Nuts4LSU
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 12:20 pm to MFn GIMP)
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I just find it hilarious that the author tries to make it sound like tobacco companies were giving millions of dollars a year to CSE
No. He very clearly said they gave millions of dollars over 13 years. How else could he have phrased it?
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Patrick O Rly
New Orleans Saints Fan
y u do dis?
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 12:24 pm to Nuts4LSU)
Guys, did you know that, like, all the car companies are corporations?
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Decatur
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 12:35 pm to Godfather1)
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MJM
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 12:53 pm to Decatur)
What a shock, the small-minded repugs of this board are once again in denial of facts
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MFn GIMP
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Somerset, Kentucky
Member since Feb 2011
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 12:56 pm to Decatur)
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Feel free to make substantive comments
I find deflections rather boring
Substantive comments like the fact that the Boston Tea Party was a major anti-tax protest so it makes sense that an anti-tax group would associate themselves with that event?
Like the fact that the first real tea party protest was in 1975?
Or that Ron Paul had Tea Party events during his run in the 08 GOP primary?
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lsu13lsu
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 12:57 pm to Decatur)
I loved Rand Paul taking down both parties last night. Thanks to whatever started this thing.
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bamafan1001 
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Member since Jun 2011
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 1:20 pm to Decatur)
Why are liberals so unwilling to accept that the Tea Party was a genuine grassroots thing?
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SlowFlowPro 
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Equality is a circle, not a =
Member since Jan 2004
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 1:26 pm to bamafan1001)
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Why are liberals so unwilling to accept that the Tea Party was a genuine grassroots thing?
because the narrative is that liberals are the group who protests and does grass root stuff
a grass root conservative movement doesn't fit in their mental narrative, so it must be destroyed
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goatmilker
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 2:33 pm to MJM)
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denial of facts
MJM
The tea party movement is/was much bigger than the donations of one entity.
If you like guilt by association(facts) I'm sure we can find plenty in the democratic apparatus and support groups.
If you like just raw facts how about the 1st democratic president(Jackson) being a ruthless killer of native americans. But that 'fact' does not lead me to believe that the democratic party is based on the dogma of a racist thug.
Its too easy of a game to play with the large brush decatur uses to sling mud.
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Lsupimp
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 2:48 pm to Decatur)
It pains me deeply to have to share my country and oxygen with such idiotic dipshits as all the anti-Tea Party agitprop contained in the original post and within this thread. I mean, real, literal pain in my sphincter, like when you're not sure you are going to make it to the toilet, and you have to stop, and consider if you should shite right there where you stand, because another step might be highly explosive in nature. So you stand there horrified, afraid to move, waiting for the pain to abate, hoping the shite shifts just a tiny bit, vividly aware that your gastrointestinal tract is full of barbed wire and razor blades. 
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LSUgusto
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 3:47 pm to Lsupimp)
I hate when that happens.
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TerryDawg03 
Georgia Fan
Member since Dec 2012
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 6:35 pm to Lsupimp)
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It pains me deeply to have to share my country and oxygen with such idiotic dipshits as all the anti-Tea Party agitprop contained in the original post and within this thread. I mean, real, literal pain in my sphincter, like when you're not sure you are going to make it to the toilet, and you have to stop, and consider if you should shite right there where you stand, because another step might be highly explosive in nature. So you stand there horrified, afraid to move, waiting for the pain to abate, hoping the shite shifts just a tiny bit, vividly aware that your gastrointestinal tract is full of barbed wire and razor blades.
I'm new here, but BEST RANT EVER.
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TerryDawg03
Georgia Fan
Member since Dec 2012
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| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 6:37 pm to Decatur)
I also find it entertaining that much of the Tea Party ideals are promoted in the Federalist Papers. Scandalous.
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Zamoro10
Member since Jul 2008
10675 posts
| re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago (Posted on 2/13/13 at 6:37 pm to Decatur)
So it was like "Concerned Citizens for Tort Reform"?
Citizens = insurance companies.
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