In an interview with Politico, Sen. Jim demint credits tea-party activists with successfully blocking health care reform legislation so far: "The only reason we don’t have national health care right now is you — is the people outside of Washington," …
Read Original Story: The Long Dark Tea Party Against Health Care Reform? – Reason Online
Jenny Beth Martin didn’t set out to become a movie star. Yet Tuesday night at the Ronald Reagan Center amphitheatre, the mom from Georgia was a celebrity at the big-screen premiere of a new film that features …
Read Original Story: Can You Hear Us Now? – American Spectator
From the opening scenes of “Tea Party: The DocumentaryFilm,” one thing is perfectly clear: the “Tea Party” movement is not about Republicans or Democrats; it’s about ordinary Americans shocked into action by their government’s intervention in the …
Read Original Story: “Tea Party” Film Tells the Story of a Truly American Movement – Heritage.org
After marching on Capitol Hill with little positive response from lawmakers, America’s tea-party movement is now putting President Obama himself on notice. freedomworks is partnering with the American Liberty Alliance and several …
Read Original Story: Tea-party explosion! Movement blasts off – WND.com
I attended the premiere of this film hoping that it would be dismal, or at least corny enough to be entertaining. Yet despite its many faults, Tea Party: The DocumentaryFilm managed to do well in capturing the energy behind the Tea Party protests, …
Read Original Story: Making the Tea Parties G-Rated – FrumForum
As the film makes clear . . . [commodities analyst Rick] Santelli’s call for a Tea Party protest [Feb. 19 on CNBC] tapped into a deep vein of discontent that started growing among grassroots conservatives during the Bush administration. …
Read Original Story: Tea Party: The Documentary Film– It's Real, and It's Spectacular – Hot Air (blog)
USA TODAY’s Oren Dorell introduced us to the Tea Party Patriots in early April when they were organizing tax protests around the country. The movement then gained national attention during summer town hall meetings on health care and a Sept. …
Read Original Story: Tea Party Patriots: Are they here to stay? – USA Today
Presented by FreedomWorks, the front group that organized the 9/12 March, a new documentary on the tea parties attempts to suggest that the protests were spontaneous. The movement’s stars were out in …
Read Original Story: "Tea Party: The Documentary" — Attending a Bizarre Movie Premiere for Right … – AlterNet
There is a quality to the modern iteration of the Tea Party movement which is rather similar to the festivity surrounding historical reenactments. Indeed it is not at all rare to see people show up at the Tea Party rallies dressed in late 18th century …
Read Original Story: Are the Tea Parties just glorified Revolutionary War reenactments? – True/Slant
Tea Party activists got to play the part of the glitterati Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, DC, where freedomworks debuted "Tea Party: The DocumentaryFilm" (a title distinguishing it, I suppose, from "Tea Party: The Three …
Read Original Story: Tea Party Movie Premieres With Congressional GOP In Attendance (VIDEO) – Huffington Post (blog)
