Reply #13: Professional grass roots astroturf groups are activated when Democrats

[Overseas]

are allowed to assume power. When the right wing needs them, it steps up the funding. This stoking of flames to protect private profits has gotten worse and worse.

And yet we didn't have any more liberal TV media to take on Rachel's quest to expose just how much of that "genuine" teaparty uproar was professionally financed and encouraged to take shape.

After the Bush Crash and the Bush Bailout, the right wing needed a major diversion from dismal republican failures. They didn't want the bankrupted evicted citizenry cursing at the outgoing Bush Cheney Gang. So they callously used every slimy tool to stir up poisonous fear and hatred and direct it away from the GOP.

Harball right wing PR is in play so brazenly these days.