Tea Party gets its own dedicated news site not named Fox

[CountDeMoney]

http://www.tpnn.com/

Tea Party conservatives are getting their very own news site.

The Tea Party News Network, self-described as "the only trusted news source and the antidote to mainstream media bias," is already live but will announce its launch tomorrow morning, with plans to start live video on election day. TPNN claims to have a "war room of 40-plus volunteers" who will operate out of the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, and has established partnerships with the Talk Radio Network and radio host Rusty Humphries, who will be co-anchoring the election night coverage.

"There are plenty of news websites out there, but there isn't one that caters directly to Tea Party conservatives, providing activists with coverage and opinion that matters to them. The Tea Party News Network changes that," Todd Cefaratti, editor of the Tea Party News Network, said in a statement for the forthcoming press release.

As with many right-wing news sites, TPNN puts heavy emphasis on the anti-mainstream media message: "We don't need our supposed betters in the mainstream media telling us which stories matter or what we should think. We don't mindlessly mimic the talking points of Washington leaders. The Tea Party movement now has a home for news it can trust."

Truth be told, it's not as though Tea Party conservatives have been homeless on the web. Most right-wing news and opinion sites, including the Media Research Center and the Breitbart network, cater to those who would label themselves members of the Tea Party. But this is the first site of its scope to apply the branding and assert itself as "the voice of the Tea Party." Cefaratti is also promising to be "a vigilant watchdog on Washington's leaders regardless of the outcome of the November election."

"TPNN is not going to be just any other conservative backwater on the Internet," said Keith Urbahn, who heads the PR firm promoting the site and recently served as chief of staff to former Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Election coverage will be co-hosted by Humphries and TPNN News Director Scottie Nell Hughes, with a particular focus on Tea Party-backed candidates like Ted Cruz, Allen West, Michelle Bachmann, and Mia Love.

So far, it gets points from me for actually using "Rapetastic" in a story headline.

[Neil]

Apparently the Benghazi coverup was worse than Watergate.

1.  Watergate wasn't bad.

2.  If Richard Nixon were alive today, he'd drop napalm on the Tea Party people.

[Eddie Teach]

1.  Watergate wasn't bad.

Except for the part about getting caught.

[Viking]

1.  Watergate wasn't bad.

Except for the part about getting caught.

And the bit about perverting the electoral process.

[garbon]

Why are they operating out of the Venetian?

[derspiess]

1.  Watergate wasn't bad.

Except for the part about getting caught.

And the bit about perverting the electoral process.

  You're no fun.

Watergate does not bother me.  Does your conscience bother you?  Tell the truth.

[Darth Wagtaros]

1.  Watergate wasn't bad.

Except for the part about getting caught.

And the bit about perverting the electoral process.

  You're no fun.

Watergate does not bother me.  Does your conscience bother you?  Tell the truth.

I wonder how sweet Alabamer really is.

[Valmy]

And the bit about perverting the electoral process.

Nixon was never going to lose to McGovern anyway.

[CountDeMoney]

And the bit about perverting the electoral process.

Nixon was never going to lose to McGovern anyway.

Which makes it even more disturbing.

[derspiess]

I wonder how sweet Alabamer really is.

Birmingham is a nice little town, at least around UAB.

[CountDeMoney]

Birmingham is a nice little town, at least around UAB.

Yeah, it is, everything bordering UAB is nice.  But it is way too fucking hot down there, and they don't like Northerners.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Too hot for my tastes.  Isn't Alton Brown from Alabamer? Or was that Georgier?

[crazy canuck]

I hear Neil Young songs are very popular down there.

[derspiess]

Yeah, it is, everything bordering UAB is nice.  But it is way too fucking hot down there, and they don't like Northerners.

I don't think I ever got any shit for being a Yankee down south.  But maybe I blend in well without knowing

I think the only place I've traveled recently where I really stuck out was with my customer in Staten Island.  But my extensive knowledge of the Godfather movies gave me an in with them.  They even gave me an Italian name by adding a vowel to my last name and letting me pick my first name.  I became: Vinnie Brammeri :wop:

[derspiess]

I hear Neil Young songs are very popular down there.

Southern man don't need him around anyhow.