Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi and His Take on the Tea Party

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This article is quite a read, and validates my own impression of the Tea Party phenomenon. Ordinarily, I like to write my own take on any article I'm excerpting, but it would pale in comparison. Just read.

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Matt Taibbi on the Tea Party

It's taken three trips to Kentucky, but I'm finally getting my Tea Party epiphany exactly where you'd expect: at a Sarah Palin rally. The red-hot mama of American exceptionalism has flown in to speak at something called the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, a gospel-music hoedown in a giant convention center filled with thousands of elderly white Southerners. Palin — who earlier this morning held a closed-door fundraiser for Rand Paul, the Tea Party champion running for the U.S. Senate — is railing against a GOP establishment that has just seen Tea Partiers oust entrenched Republican hacks in Delaware and New York. The dingbat revolution, it seems, is nigh. . .

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