Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Sam Elliott: Tea Party Special Kind Of Stupid Meme

Sam Elliott: Tea Party Special Kind Of Stupid Meme

If you think the Koch Brothers founded the Tea Party to protect your rights.
You really are a special kind of stupid aren't you?


A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene.

Far from a genuine grassroots uprising, this astroturf effort was curated by wealthy industrialists years in advance. Many of the anti-science operatives who defended cigarettes are currently deploying their tobacco-inspired playbook internationally to evade accountability for the fossil fuel industry's role in driving climate disruption. -Huffington Post