So a friend just posted on Facebook that Fox News is reporting on this guy Jason Levin that has a web site called http://www.crashtheteaparty.org/... The purpose is to organize an effort to infiltrate the TEA party movement and cause embarrassment by being crazier than they are while wearing their shirts. So Fox News is reporting on it with this story: Web Site Vows to Infiltrate Tea Party Movement
It is apparently one guy promoting this on a stock web site and the forums on his message board have liberals telling him its a bad idea or flamers. One even told him that Fox News will latch onto it trying to magnify the lunacy. The forum is made to look busier than it really is with a bunch of duplicate posts (see pages 40 and 39). It has also apparently been in existence since...April 14th based on the oldest posts. Based on twitter its been going since April 7th (see http://twitter.com/... What day is today? How does Fox News find this site so quickly and then feel its so powerful a mechanism against the TEA party that it feels it needs to report it?
My feeling is the TEA party gets some bad press and to inoculate themselves against possible future embarrassment they create the notion that any future embarrassment is actually the work of infiltrators and to set it up they use FOX news. That or FOX news started it all by themselves. Why would anyone announce their crash in such a manner. It makes more sense that this is a diversion by TEA party supporters themselves or simply identifying an existing lone nut to make out to be more than he is. All TEA party members have to do is publicly reject those carrying signs of Obama painted as Hitler or a head hunter. If someone is acting in a way that is embarrassing, just don't embrace their tactics. If this site and attempt at a movement (of one as far as I can see) is real its a waste of time. The TEA party will crash itself. It will pull the Republicans too far right to be electable or split the vote (that part has already happened in New York).
I'm no expert at analyzing sites like this to see if its a hoax but it seems fishy to me based on what I have noticed so far with respect to Twitter and the forum. The site isn't great at navigation but you can see the forum here direct link to forum
Add to that, he apparently follows every major liberal news or entertainment outlet imaginable. See "following" section of twitter. Why would they all be listed together so tightly? Wouldn't it be filled with some of his friends too? Yes, he has some, but they are token compared to the A-listers shown. In fact, he only follows the number of those that would be listed (well he could show five more). There is no "view all" link because there are no more.
According to this Ore. teacher threatens to crash tea party he is supposed to be in Oregon.
But this shows something different (yes clearly not truthful identification). I guess its possible still he could be in one place and create it as another false identification associated with another state. But why would he do that? He is openly talking about infiltration and he points to his facebook page (theoretically).
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