On Tuesday evening, several organizers of the Teaparty Movement and of the ultraconservative website 73wire.com hosted a telephone conference call for Teaparty activists to receive talking points directly.
Katie Halper | Posted 11.16.2009 | Comedy
Poor branding, such as the term Public Option, didn't help the cause. But it's not too late to win the support of Republican enemies and the Teabaggers who control them.
Rob Kall | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Limbaugh, Beck and Palin tap the energy and emotions of the masses and flame their biases and bigotry. The web and the media have changed the rules. The grassroots are connected like never before.
Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
When extremists are a (vocal) minority, reasonable Republicans and independents come out of the woodwork. And the spoils go to the Democrats, who look comparatively sane.
Rich Nadworny | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media
The teabaggers and the angry conservatives sure make a lot of noise these days. And much of the noise is about them making noise. It sure seems like the online channel is a key element in the vitriol.
TPMDC | Christina Bellantoni | Posted 11.04.2009 | Los Angeles
A California Republican aiming to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) next year has gotten a boost from conservative Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). DeMint anno...
Brad Friedman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
So we went out to Griffith Park out here in L.A. on Sunday to check out the kick-off day for the new "Tea Party Express II" national tour. Thought we ...
Terrance Heath | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
When it comes to health care reform, the states most likely to benefit -- because they have the highest percentages of uninsured citizens -- are the source of the loudest objections to reform.
Patrick McCully | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
This is intellectual vandalism in keeping with the know-nothing, no-tax tendencies of the teabagging conservatives, but surely not of UC Berkeley administrators.
Michael Shandrick | Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver
The Colorado Springs budget hearing would have been controversial even without council member Tom Gallagher calling on supporters to create a public outcry with a "tea party."
Les Leopold | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
Our politicians thrive on chastising the fictitious welfare queens who supposedly turn our hard-earned tax dollars into Cadillacs. But when it comes to Wall Street we let the welfare kings walk all over us.
Stu Kreisman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media
What were the producers thinking when they cast DeLay in the first place? Did they believe that after seeing him do a samba, America would forget what a repulsive human being he is and embrace him in its collective bosom?
Bill Scher | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Sen. Graham may be a conservative, but he is not a moron. He knew full well the right-wing lunacy that would be unleashed by his willingness to compromise to pass carbon cap legislation.
Bill Maher | Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy
This weekend is the perfect time for Obama to announce he's repealing "don't ask, don't tell" and committing to a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage. But of course that's not going to happen.
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
The president likes to say, "If you like the health insurance you have now..." The problem is that much like your utter lack of financial security, the health insurance you have now... sucks.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
It is worth remembering that Glenn Beck is not blocking the passage of a good health care bill. The old and new carny acts of the right aren't undermining the energy legislation or frustrating financial reform. To focus on who and what is standing in the way -- follow the money.
Mike Elk | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Very few of us have made any attempt to really reach out to the teabaggers on the issues that we share with them. We could lock arms with them and form a powerful alliance; but instead we attack each other.
Steven Weber | Posted 10.03.2009 | Comedy
We've had the Birthers. We've had the Baggers. We've had the Deathers. Now, In light of the IOC's slapping down of Obama's face to face bid for the Olympic games to be held in Chicago, we're now suffering the Smuggers.
Michael Moore | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment
I've had enough. As far as I'm concerned, Tea Bag Nation ends today -- at noon to be precise. The days of the majority of Americans being ignored and played for chumps are over.
Jessica Amason | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media
As BuzzFeed's resident "viral scientist," I investigate how the most contagious items on the Web enter our hearts, minds and inboxes.
Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Sparkman's workaday life and violent death -- whatever the cause and whoever the culprit -- highlight the precarious struggles of the white working class and the brewing storm surrounding the 2010 Census.
Aemilia Scott | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago
My satirical DEATH-PAC successfully defended Blue Cross / Blue Shield -- that tiny, innocent little ma and pa shop -- from the demonic populist horde whose name is MoveOn.org.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media
In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad.
Dickipedia/HuffPost Comedy | Posted 11.21.2009 | Comedy
Teabaggers born January 20, 2009, are American protesters with little to no understanding of sexual slang. Alright, the elephant with giant balls in ...
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
I don't know that TRICARE is the best possible care, but I can point to my parents, who still ride their tandem bike every day and swim every day and are healthy enough to plan a January trip to Antarctica.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media