the tea party, if I understand correctly, has no true 'leaders' - anyone who's called themselves or been called one is either a convenient fall guy for the opposition or a moron with aspirations of riding a singularly decentralized (and fairly disorganized) movement.
They can have spokespersons though, can't they?
Glenn Beck makes me miss the time when Bill O'Reilly was the main Republican pundit. Would O'Reilly say something dumbfucked like this, I ask you all:
2011 Norway attacks
In the wake of the 2011 Norway attacks, Beck received condemnation for his comparison of murdered and surviving members of the Norwegian Workers' Youth League to the Hitler Youth. He said, "There was a shooting at a political camp which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever, you know what I mean. Who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."[196] The statement was ill-received in Norway, leading senior political commentator Frank Aarebrot to label Beck as a "vulgar propagandist" and a "fascist",[197] and Torbjørn Eriksen, former press secretary to Norway's prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, to describe Beck's comment as "a new low", adding that "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful".[198] Commentators pointed out that groups affiliated with the Tea Party movement and the Beck-founded 9-12 Project also sponsor politically oriented camp programs for children.[198][199][200][201][202] Beck condemned the attack in spite of his statements about its victims.[203]
