"Nobody puts baby in a corner ...."
Poor widdle
things:
Citing a long litany of harassment examples, the Tea Party Leadership Fund is asking the Federal Election Commission for the same right granted to the Socialist Workers Party to shield the names and information of their donors from the public.
According to the tea party, they're victims, just like the communists and socialists—although they do say commies deserve it—and they can prove it!
"As we very thoroughly document at almost three times the length of the socialist request, tea party supporters are subject to an unprecedented level of harassment and abuse," Backer said.
And of course the "IRS scandal ... figures prominently" in their body of evidence. (For those not paying attention, that would be the scandal where it turns out the IRS was doing its job in scrutinizing political groups of
all stripes that were seeking tax-exempt status.) But if that's not enough for you, the tea party isn't just relying on a ginned up scandal that was debunked. Oh, no. They have:
Other evidence: Obama’s use of the pejorative term “tea-baggers" ...
Well, case closed. Smoking gun. Because if the anti-American, baby-killing, marxist, socialist (irony), Kenyan said that, well, he obviously has it out for them.