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All Hail the Glorious Teabag Comrades!

Tuesday, 20 April 2010 09:05 Gene Gaudette

I direct your attention to this one sentence:

The Tea Party movement’s dirty little secret is that its chief financial backers owe their family fortune to the granddaddy of all their hatred: Stalin’s godless empire of the USSR.

You know you have to read the rest. Click here for Yasha Levine's terrific article on the Tea Party's Bolshevik bankroll.

Crossposted to APJ

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