The Tea Party Movement Is a National Embarrassment

Stuart Whatley, 02.09.2010

Associate Blog Editor

The Tea Party movement is the latest installment in an old American tradition: The exploitation of mostly frustrated, desperate, and susceptible people by monied interests and profiteers.

The Horror! The Horror!

Paul Slansky, 02.09.2010

Writer; Contributor to The New Yorker

After a year and a half of exposure to this virulently toxic presence, the question on the table is: In our lifetime, has there ever been a worse human being in American politics than Sarah Palin?

Green News Report -- February 9, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, 02.09.2010

Co-Hosts, Green News Report

TWITTER: @Gre...

The Hopey Changey Stuff

Jeff Schweitzer, 02.09.2010

Marine Biologist and Former Clinton White House Science Advisor

Palin's popularity in segments of society indicates that a portion of the voting population has come to disdain science, objective truth and the benefits resulting from our waning period of enlightenment.

Tell The Senate: Stand With Students. Not Sarah Palin's Big Bank Buddies.

Bill Scher, 02.09.2010

OurFuture.org, LiberalOasis.com, WHMP, author of “Wait! Don’t Move To Canada!”

Click here to the tell the Senate: end the $80 billion subsidy to the big banks and pass student loan reform. Right now, we taxpayers give big banks ...

Sarah Palin: She's Got the Whole World on Her Hands...

Rick Horowitz, 02.09.2010

Satirist and syndicated columnist

Just when you find yourself thinking that Sarah Palin couldn't possibly do anything else to embarrass herself, there she is, caught red-handed -- well, black- or blue-handed.

The Dick Gibson Show by Stanley Elkin

Daniel Krotz, 02.09.2010

Writer and bookseller living in the Ozark Mountains in rural Arkansas

What Elkin is saying in The Dick Gibson Show is that Americans want to hear what they want to hear -- and will seek out radio personalities who agree to whisper sweet nothings into their ears.

Sarah Palin: Faux Populist

Alec Baldwin, 02.09.2010

Actor

So, you think Sarah Palin is embarrassed by the crib-notes-on-the-palm incident? You're kidding, right? These gaffes represent a gamble by Palin and her handlers, a bet they are hedging.

Palin Crowns Herself Queen of the Party

Anushay Hossain, 02.09.2010

Editor/Founder, AnushaysPoint.com

Because Palin is a fraud with no real beliefs, there could've been no better crowd to appoint herself to lead than the Tea Party people. A group without a leader for a leader without a group.

Con Games: Know Nothing Party Knows How to Say No

Michael Conniff, 02.09.2010

"Con Games with Michael Conniff" on KNFO in Aspen and Vail

In politics, to quote Yogi Berra: You don't know nothin' -- and that goes double for the Know Nothing Party, the GOP.

Palin Channeled Feinstein with Sneaky Palm Notes

Phil Trounstine, 02.09.2010

Huffposter and Calbuzzer

When Sarah Palin wrote a cheat sheet for an interview on her hand, she was simply following in the, uh, footsteps of California senior Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Fox News Gives Palin's Hand Job

Andy Borowitz, 02.09.2010

BorowitzReport.com

"We were very impressed with the job her hand did at the Tea Party Convention," Fox News chief Roger Ailes said. "And we said to ourselves, let's give Sarah Palin's hand a job."

Let's Call It "Pocketbook Populism"

Mark Green, 02.09.2010

Author and former Public Advocate of New York City

Time to take back "populism" from Teabaggers and Palinites who've kidnapped it to only mean less government and taxes. Democrats need to define a phrase and philosophy that tells Independents we're on your side.

The Tea Party Dumps Economic Populism: Where are the Progressives?

Les Leopold, 02.09.2010

Author, "The Looting of America"

The lethal combination of Wall Street's economic domination and the Tea Party's hatred of all things government is likely to overwhelm most other progressive causes. We need our own movement.

Palin Headlines Birther Conference; Press Pretends Not To Notice

Eric Boehlert, 02.09.2010

Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America

Virtually nobody in the corporate media said boo about Sarah Palin appearing on the same Tea Party stage as birther nut Joseph Farah, and helping him ...

WorldNetDaily Extends Fawning Tea Party Coverage to Convention

Terry Krepel, 02.08.2010

ConWebWatch.com founder and editor, Media Matters senior editor

Last week, I detailed how WorldNetDaily has provided nothing but fawning coverage of the National Tea Party Covention, ignoring or whitewashing the nu...

The Tea Party 600: Canaries in the Political Coal Mine?

Arianna Huffington, 02.09.2010

While there was much to mock about the Tea Party convention: the low turnout, Tom Tancredo's immigrant bashing and Sarah Palin's keynote lite, it would be a huge mistake to dismiss the movement that led to the event.

Sarah Palm

Jeff Danziger, 02.08.2010

Jeff Danziger is a political cartoonist syndicated by the NYTimes worldwide

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Palin's Saturday Night Live

Ed Kilgore, 02.08.2010

Managing Editor of The Democratic Strategist

It's far past time to stop pretending that Palin is just a joke. Her performance in Nashville was taken seriously by the kind of people who dominate the Republican nominating process.

Ryan Grim Talks Palin's 'Holier Than Thou' Tea Party Tone (VIDEO)

Huff TV, 02.08.2010

HuffPost's Senior Congressional Correspondent Ryan Grim appeared on MSNBC Monday to weigh in on Sarah Palin's recent "tea party" remarks. Palin appea...

Political Haiku: Advice for the Duchess of Wasilla

Frank Dwyer, 02.08.2010

poet, playwright, actor, theater director

You say you don't need a "title." You mean "office"? Go, girl! Run for Queen! ...