by the Left Coast Rebel
(Editor's note) Scroll for Updates, Scroll to Update 5 for Van Jones connection
(Correction) Stacy Hopkins with ACORN Properties is not the Atlanta chapter Coffee Party Stacy Hopkins.
Right now at Memeorandum there are dueling headlines. One is a hit piece from Politico on the Christian right infighting over the 'libertarian streak' in the tea party movement. Jim Hoft at Gateway points out that the 'evangelist' that Politico references for it's tea party hit piece is actually an Obama supporter. Oops. Thanks for finding that gem, Jim.
The other Memeorandum thread is a glowing Coffee Party article (on the heels of Saturday's big Coffee Party event):
The usual press memes are intact in this CNN piece, that the Coffee Party was started as a grass roots effort:
Meet these members of the Coffee Party Movement, an organically grown, freshly brewed push that's marking its official kickoff Saturday....They're professionals, musicians and housewives. They're frustrated liberal activists, disheartened conservatives and political newborns. They're young and old, rich and poor, black, white and all shades of other.
Sounds nice, right? CNN goes on then to profile several members of the Atlanta Coffee Party in Atlanta. John Purser, (who claims to have never been an activist before), Alex Oxford (a young 'fiscal conservative' who is gay), Darlene Jones-Owens (disillusioned Obama fan), Tony Anderson, (first cousin of Rosa Parks) and Stacey Hopkins (stay at home mother
the coordinator of the Atlanta, Georgia Coffee Party chapter).
CNN put more focus on Stacey Hopkins (pictured at right from her blog), so I will start out by dissecting her information trail on the net. CNN paints a very nice picture of her as essentially someone that thinks the nation's 'work is not being done' because of a 'stifling' Congress (whatever that means) among other things. She doesn't even sound overtly political - pleasant, nice, unassuming. Perhaps like a neighbor that you may have.
C-Gen and I did some digging however and you might be surprised with what we found (actually, if you read this blog regularly, you will not be surprised). As was the case with Annabel Park, a few simple google queries (that CNN didn't seem able to do) provided some amazing information. I hit the treasure-trove of Obama Astroturfing from her blog, Political Voices of Women/Stacy Hopkins:
Essentially Stacey Hopkin's blog is just a forum wherein she has posted videos and graphics. There's a lot of Obama stuff like this graphic:
And videos like this:Obama astroturf? Perhaps. But then again, I have seen this 'progress' sign around, bumper stickers, who knows? For the real meat and potatoes I went to Stacey Hopkins, Mrs. concerned non-political citizen and Atlanta, Georgia Coffee Party gal's photo page for her blog. I found these little treasures - rabid, marxist/leninist anti-capitalist treasures:
See the theme here? And these things point to the person that is Stacey Hopkins, the CNN rosy-profiled, Coffee Party organizer (I mean, anti-capitalist extremist, oops, my bad). Does the press not even have access to Google? Are they simply just so ideologically bent and lazy? To think, Stacey Hopkins is only one of 5 people profiled in the CNN article. I found this information in one hour!
C-Gen, working behind the scenes for the Left Coast Rebel was also able to discover a myriad of lurid details on this single individual in an hour or so. He sent me her blog, which I focused on here. He also found a strange rant from Stacey Hopkins regarding Al Sharpton getting cut from the radio in her area (the link isn't working for me so I will validate this later). He found a Stacy G. Hopkins that works for Acorn Properties out of Ball Ground, GA - not sure where that leads other than the name 'Acorn'. Also, I am not sure that it is the same 'Stacey Hopkins' from above. What do you think? Imagine if I spent a day digging up information on these Coffee Party people?
Updated:
Instalanche! Thanks Professor Reynolds! Welcome, new readers! Check back in later at the Left Coast Rebel for more updates. ConfederateYankee links too, thanks! Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit links as well, thanks!
Update x2:
Mr. Fiscal Conservative Alex Oxford is a big time gay rights activist. Just two questions. Five liberals at this Coffee Party chapter? I thought the movement was supposed to be large? Four out of five are "left wing activists." This is the very definition of grassroots, eh? Mr. Fiscal Conservative Alex Oxford Coffee Party guy at the Atlanta LGBT rally. Note that at 2:40 on the Youtube dial, Alex Oxford mentions 'radical events coming up, in terms of civil disobedience':
So Coffee Party grassroots support 'radical events and civil disobedience'? I thought that the Coffee Party was just a way for dissafected, normal folks to get together and talk about 'solutions' for 'problems'?
Update x3:
Radio Syndication Talk had an interesting discussion regarding the Rev. Al Sharpton's show being cut in Atlanta. A commenter named Stacey Hopkins, age 46, (same age as Washington Post reports) living in Atlanta had a few words to say about it. According to the commenter Hopkins 7th comment down, Screenshot:
I’ve been catching their shows on the web (thank God for the internet) but something in the milk ain’t clean on this one, folks.
I’m 46 yeard old and have never been contacted by Arbitron, Nielson or any of the other companies that do marketing surveys, who are they contacting for their numbers? I can do an unofficial consensus of my neighborhood and the listeners ARE there.
Sounds to me like someone wants to keep the Black community in the dark, the question is whom and why?
Is this a conspiracy theory from the left? I thought that was what Tea Parties are about. Coffee Parties are not supposed to be attended by these sorts of folks.
Update x4:
American thinker found that the Coffee Party is back in part by Soros' Open Society Institute. Just can't figure out how the author comes to the conclusion that Coffee Party is not AstroTurf. Activists can be activists, but claiming grassroots when you are being backed by consultants. That's the definition of AstroTurf. I looked it up.
Update x5:
Reader John Gilbert sent the Left Coast Rebel one hell of a tip. Tony Anderson from today was profiled by CNN rather glowingly:
His great-grandmother's first cousin was the legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks, whom he grew up calling "Aunt Rosa." The 27-year-old social entrepreneur and nonprofit consultant works in sustainability. While a political philosophy major at Morehouse College in Atlanta, he started the Let's Raise a Million Project, which set out to bring low-income black communities into the green movement one compact fluorescent light bulb at a time.
Sounds like a great guy! My gut told me otherwise. After I read this I instantly thought of Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, as per emphasized above. My instincts prove correct (as they usually do with Obama's minions as they are ludicrously predictable). Tony Anderson is intimately involved with Van Jones. Literally. Screenshot from Let's Raise a Million that proves just that:
As you can clearly see here (and since we can read and do minimal research, unlike CNN), Tony Anderson is listed as a recent graduate of Morehouse College, just as CNN wrote. Also c
learly stated and coincidentally left out of the CNN piece today - Tony Anderson is a protege of Van Jones!Can you imagine that CNN would point to this guy as a mainstream, grassroots Coffee Party alternative to the Tea Party teabagger movement? To think that they would 'randomly' highlight a protege of communist former Obama White House Green Jobs Czar Van Jones! I can't make this stuff up. Is the American press really this corrupt? Answer - Yes.
I think I have a new word for these people - Coffeebaggers.
On that note, Grandpa John worked his way into the secret inner-bowels of CNN and found the actual Coffee Party gathering. Of Coffeebaggers:
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