{"id":7487,"date":"2009-10-28T05:10:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T12:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7487"},"modified":"2023-06-04T13:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T20:53:03","slug":"tea-party-express-ii-rise-of-the-tea-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7487","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tea Party Express II: Rise of the Tea Bags&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we went out to Griffith Park out here in L.A. on Sunday to check out the kick-off day for the new &#8220;Tea Party Express II&#8221; national tour. Thought we might meet some interesting people and file a quick video report. Met <i>a lot<\/i> of interesting people, and so ended up making a short film of sorts. Enjoy. Spread the word. Go tell the story (&#8220;both sides&#8221;)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ntrrUzNiggQ\"><i>Part 1&#8230;<\/i><\/a><br \/><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ntrrUzNiggQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zFtvw4pFsTM\"><i>Part 2&#8230;<\/i><\/a><br \/><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zFtvw4pFsTM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE 10\/29\/09:<\/strong><\/em> Boy, it&#8217;s tough to compete with the Tea Baggers in the satire department, even when they&#8217;re not actually trying to be satirical. As God is my witness, coming to you with a straight face this Thanksgiving &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7489\"><i>Tea Party: The Documentary Film<\/i>!&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE 11\/9\/09:<\/strong><\/em> As of today, we&#8217;ve had more than 11,000 views of <em>Rise of the Tea Bags<\/em> at YouTube. By Tea Bagger math, that&#8217;s more than 3 million views! And yet, the media refuses to report it!!! Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7508\">here&#8217;s my interview<\/a> on Air America Radio&#8217;s <em>Ring of Fire<\/em> discussing the video&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we went out to Griffith Park out here in L.A. on Sunday to check out the kick-off day for the new &#8220;Tea Party Express II&#8221; national tour. Thought we might meet some interesting people and file a quick video report. Met a lot of interesting people, and so ended up making a short film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,89,405,299,288,300,126],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-bush-legacy","category-democrats","category-health-care","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7487"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}