Bloggers charge 'Tea Party' anti-stimulus protests are corporate front

Muriel Kane
Published: Sunday March 1, 2009

When a few hundred protesters showed up in each of some 30 or 40 cities nationwide on Friday to object to President Obama's stimulus plan, they claimed that the well-coordinated protests had arisen spontaneously in response to a tirade against mortgage bailouts, delivered just over a week earlier, on February 19, by CNBC's Rick Santelli.