Tea Party Patriots Get iPhone App

Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit

Those who dismiss the Tea Party movement as a bunch of rednecks may be interested to know that the Tea Party Patriots now have a new iPhone app.

The application, "Tea Party Finder", was created by Ryan Ninneman and is available as a free download from the iPhone store. It debuted about a week after another Tea Party IPhone App, created by Politically mobile.

In a Wednesday email, Tea Party Patriots leaders Mark Meckler and JennyBeth Martin call the app "very cool" and "state of the art." At the moment, the app simply uses your location to find either nearby Tea Party groups (at least groups registered with Tea Party Patriots) or Tea Party events. Meckler and Martin say they'll be adding more features "soon".

The app does what it says on the box. After entering my current location, the app asks if you are searching for groups or for events. It then presents a handful of Tea Party groups in your area and pulls up an extensive list of nearby events, from weekly meetings to protests to Tax Day Tea Parties.

For whatever reason, the app's full name does not appear in the iPhone browser. It simply says: "Tea Pa...inder."

Comments

[Worrierking]

01:48 PM on 03/12/2010

Wouldn't an American History App be more helpful to our historically impaired friends on the right?

[henrypapillon]

09:07 AM on 03/07/2010

Is there an app that will help them get the upper part of their anatomy unstuck from the lower part of their anatomy?

[henrypapillon]

09:03 AM on 03/07/2010

Headline after Tea Party Convention: "TEABAGGERS GET SOAKED".

[Brightlight]

12:12 AM on 03/07/2010

They are buying Sarah's new Palm Pilot and trying to hook up to the internets.

[ArthurTwoShedsJackson]

01:49 PM on 03/06/2010

My estimated % of tea baggers who own an iPhone: 2%

My estimated % of tea baggers who own an iPhone AND can download an app AND use all on their own: 0.2%

My estimated % of tea baggers who have ever mistaken their PC mouse for a foot pedal and/or broke off their PC's retractable cup holder (otherwise known as a CD drive): 80%

[chicagogal11]

10:41 PM on 03/05/2010

The most popular game is "hang man"

[zzeltar]

10:52 PM on 03/05/2010

touche!

[zzeltar]

10:21 PM on 03/05/2010

It includes a _video game similar to Pac Man, but with a _racist bent- It is called White Man. You travel through an endless maze _attacking things that aren't exactly like you.

[VeroucaSalt]

09:41 PM on 03/05/2010

I'm glad I don't support the makers of the technology who perpetuate the h8red of the Tea party.

Apple, what's wrong with you?

[zzeltar]

12:05 AM on 03/06/2010

Really, are they going to have a _klan app next?

[daikon86]

03:19 PM on 03/05/2010

racist, hypocritical, hyperbole; there's an ap for that.

[RRoadrunner]

03:12 PM on 03/05/2010

Everybody wants to make a buck off the TP. I wonder how much money Ryan Ninneman will make? He just might be one of those small bussiness that creates most of the jobs in this country..... Tea Pots???

[Lisa Ryder]

04:27 PM on 03/05/2010

Remember the teapot dome scandel?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal?wasRedirected=true

[Portnoy]

02:55 PM on 03/05/2010

Teabaggers don't know how to spell iphone, letalone own one. The only people getting this app will be liberals who want to keep tabs on these racists. FAIL

[Handyman2]

02:48 PM on 03/05/2010

The new app. is called "IRacist"

[prthatrocks]

11:20 PM on 03/05/2010

Collect the entire set: iKKK, iAntiSemite, iRacist, iRedneck, and the ever popular iIgnorant.

[Allan Brauer]

02:44 PM on 03/05/2010

Grindr for teabaggers. SWF Patriot seeks hot 2nd amndmt action with your gun.

[ArkayMI]

02:20 PM on 03/05/2010

I thought Tea Baggers check Sarah Palin's palm to find the nearest tea party group :-) We don't need no freaking iPhones.

[Lisa Ryder]

01:55 PM on 03/05/2010

Is this tea party Fox News, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, iphone app or grass root, Ron Paul tea party libertarian and constitutionalist iPhone?