{"id":2748,"date":"2009-03-23T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T20:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/this-weeks-wtf-15\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T20:31:37","slug":"this-weeks-wtf-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/this-weeks-wtf-15\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s WTF?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The signs that were distributed said <strong>\u201cObama Bin Lyin\u2019 IMPEACH NOW\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"impeach.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/mine\/2009\/03\/impeach.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctea party\u201d protests nationwide are being coordinated by the conservative public relations firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomworks.org\/publications\/freedomworks-launches-nationwide-%E2%80%9Ctea-party%E2%80%9D-tour\">Freedom Works<\/a>, which is run by former Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX). The tea parties are also being supported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansolutions.com\/ResourceCenter\/Read.aspx?guid=0ecb8389-000d-48ac-8b74-5747960e2739\">Newt Gingrich<\/a>, through his organization American Solutions For Winning the Future. Members of Congress, such as Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH), have appeared at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.local12.com\/mostpopular\/story\/Tea-Party-Protesters-Angry-Over-Stimulus\/APT0AtMFz0KPlQEyo26n_Q.cspx\">previous<\/a> rallies. In addition, Fox News\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/content\/articles\/article\/198\/23011\/\">Glenn Beck<\/a> promotes the protests, and has launched a website <a href=\"http:\/\/theglennbeck912project.com\/\">publicizing<\/a> the events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The signs that were distributed said \u201cObama Bin Lyin\u2019 IMPEACH NOW\u201d: The \u201ctea party\u201d protests nationwide are being coordinated by the conservative public relations firm Freedom Works, which is run by former Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX). The tea parties are also being supported by Newt Gingrich, through his organization American Solutions For Winning the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/this-weeks-wtf-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Week&#8217;s WTF?!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-voices","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}