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Monday, February 1, 2010

Politics Tea Baggers Discover That the Free Market Actually Kind of Sucks

Posted by Jonny Diamond on Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:49 PM

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Poor Tea Baggers. As the first-annual national Tea Party Convention gets set for Nashville this weekend, thousands of free-market fundamentalists Tea Baggers across the country are balking at the for-profit convention's pricing. With prices hovering around $500, Tea Party higher-up (and noted American modernist composer) Philip Glass told Marketplace today that he's "concerned about the appearance of profiteering, exploitation of the grassroots movement."

Ha. Profiteering and exploitation. Those are morally loaded terms, Mr. Glass, and as we all know, morality has no place in matters of the free market. ARE YOU SOME KIND OF SOCIALIST? No wonder the crazy foxy number one fury of the Republican Party, Michele Bachmann, has already dropped out...

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Wow. Did you guys take anytime to fact check the Philip Glass you're talking about? Do you really think Philip Glass, the composer would be supporting such a bogus "movement"? Great journalism guys - pretty lazy.

Posted by briankmoe on February 1, 2010 at 4:32 PM | Report this comment

Ira Glass is a member of the John Birch Society. Also.

Posted by Jonny Diamond on February 1, 2010 at 5:08 PM | Report this comment

briankmoe: it's a JOKE. a joke. a joke.

Posted by objectress on February 2, 2010 at 12:19 AM | Report this comment

it's not a joke, I've seen this confused other places.

Posted by r dawg on February 4, 2010 at 2:41 PM | Report this comment

I've seen Philip Glass, the composer. I know Philip Glass, the Composer.
THIS TEA BAG PERSON IS NOT PHILIP GLASS THE COMPOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by petgigs on February 5, 2010 at 4:51 AM | Report this comment

@briankmoe, r dawg, petgigs
it was a joke

Posted by Jonny Diamond on February 5, 2010 at 9:50 AM | Report this comment

It wasn't a joke to these idiots. The Tea Baggers are imploding anyway. It won't last much longer. It is irritating when I pull up 'Philip Glass News' (I do research for his website philipglass.com ) & all these Teabag stories pop up.

Posted by petgigs on February 5, 2010 at 8:19 PM | Report this comment

Yes it IS that Philip Glass. He's writing a 17 hour opera based on his experiences inside the movement and celebrating its political importance. It will feature actual Tea-Baggers as performers, most of those being non-musicians, each equipped with a Clavinet and a Vocoder.

Posted by sether on February 18, 2010 at 10:27 AM | Report this comment

why are the tea baggers "imploding?" they're getting much stronger in my neck of the woods.

Posted by gladys on February 26, 2010 at 12:49 PM | Report this comment

petgigs, anyone, why are the tea baggers "imploding?" they're getting much stronger in my neck of the woods.

Posted by gladys on February 26, 2010 at 12:50 PM | Report this comment

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