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[Gob]

Who can mail me a copy?

The tea party movement, known for its regular attacks on the media, is formally joining the media business.

Activists have created a magazine, Tea Party Review, to be launched this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

“This magazine is a response to demands from tea party members across the country for a magazine that we can call our own,” said Katrina Pierson, a member of the Dallas Tea Party and the magazine’s national grass-roots director. “People are weary of the distorted version of the tea party movement that we see in most of the media. Tea party members want a magazine for the movement, created by members of the movement and reflecting the values of the movement.”

The magazine will be led by Editor Steven Allen, a Washington, D.C.-based writer, who is described on the publication’s website as having “37 years’ experience as a journalist, as a radio news director, newspaper reporter and columnist, and magazine editor.”

Allen’s LinkedIn profile, however, offers little specific work experience related to journalism. Instead, it lists a career in politics and policy dating back to August 1981 when he served as press secretary for then-Sen. Jeremiah Denton (R-Ala.). Allen subsequently worked for the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a conservative think tank founded by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). And he produces a comic strip known as “The Gentleman from Lickskillet.”

It’s unclear if it’s the same comic strip, but the first edition of the new magazine will feature a comic strip “about a tea party Congressman dealing with the Red Chinese,” according to Pierson, adding that other first-edition topics include tea party lobbying, foreign policy, big-business political corruption and “methods to which the tea party movement can appeal to Latino immigrants.”

“Tea Party Review follows in a long tradition of movement-oriented publications. Throughout American history, successful movements — abolitionists, women’s suffragists, the civil rights movement, the conservative movement, etc. — all had their own print publications,” Pierson continued in the press release announcing the creation of the new magazine.

“Tea Party Review gives all Tea Party members and groups the opportunity to be heard by all, to communicate ideas, create initiatives, share information on best practices, and define the movement’s principles and platform,” she said. “This magazine will ensure the integrity and sustainability of the movement, and bring together Tea Party members who are interested not only in making a statement but in making a real change.”

http://www.rollcall.com/news/Tea-Party- ... l&pos=epol

[Scooter]

The paper for all those for whom NewsMax and World Net Daily are neither conservative nor distorted enough.

[Sue U]

PARADE MAGAZINE TIMES A BILLION
Tea Party Launching Sexy New Magazine To Save America, Publishing

by Ken Layne
12:29 pm February 8, 2011 232 Comments 3284 Views



Does that special someone in your life (unwanted grandparent in the Midwest) need a fun new magazine subscription to go along with Reader’s Digest Large Print Edition and that weird brochure from NewsMax? Well get your checkbook ready because TEA PARTY REVIEW is gonna drop at CPAC, sneetches, and it’s packed with flava such as some old wire photo of Sarah Palin speaking at that thing last year, and a hawt new feature called “Meeting the Editor,” and some otha stuff, nobody really knows … oh wait, we mean, “and even a comic strip about a Tea Party congressman dealing with the Red Chinese.” Man this is better than any dang old free subway paper full of horror-scopes and those Armenian sisters for $40 on that faggy iPad, no?

Somebody emailed us a press release from this thing for some reason:

“There’s a profile of the first Tea Partiers elected to statewide office, a look at key figures in history such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Booker T. Washington, and even a comic strip about a Tea Party congressman dealing with the Red Chinese,” Pierson noted.

The “Tea Party Review’s team of writers, artists, and editors reflect the diversity of the movement, including individuals from all over the country incorporating a wide variety of backgrounds. The magazine includes people who’ve never contributed before to a national magazine, along with people who have written for major publications like the Chicago Defender and The New York Times.”

Yeah, who is that black person Tea Partiers can mention? Booker T. and his famous peanut butter! Also let’s give it up for the Chicago Defender, whatever that is …

Here is Cee-Lo and Prince doing “Crazy” last night in New York, to cleanse the palate:

http://wonkette.com/437395/tea-party-la ... publishing