***SCAM ALERT!!!*** "Crash the Tea Party" is definitely a scam!!!!

[devilgrrl]

A story has been circulating among the right-wing blogosphericals that purports to be about leftist/socialist "disrupters" of the Tea Party events on the 15th. It has cropped up on AP, and I predict it will go wide on Fox tonight. Malkin already covered it.



Someone named "Jason Levin in Albany" surfaced just long enough to give an interview to "someone", promoting "his site" http://crashtheteaparty.org/.

cttp2The funny thing is, there's no site there. I mean there's this one page with an image (no real text) that asks you to join them, to infiltrate the Tea party events, to carry racist and crazy signs. The site's link choices are to "crash" -- takes you to a discussion board (populated entirely by about 25 rightwing hoaxers).

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Huh?

Working in the net biz I investigated. A (rightwing) Free Republic commenter claims it was originally listed this way:

Domain ID:D158773927-LROR
Domain Name:CRASHTHETEAPARTY.ORG
Created On:03-Apr-2010 22:52:43 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
Registrant ID:CR45137659
Registrant Name:Jason Levin
Registrant Street1:8575 SW Birch Street
Registrant City:Portland
Registrant State/Province:Oregon
Registrant Postal Code:97223
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:[phone]
Registrant Email:[e-mail]
Admin ID:CR45137663
Admin Name:Jason Levin
Tech ID:CR45137661
Name Server:NS2.IPOWER.COM
Name Server:NS1.IPOWER.COM

(There is a YouTube account for xenex11 -- funny: 2 of his only 5 friends are rabid rightwingers: http://www.youtube.com/user/xenex11#p/u/14/Y_XFYAcCOOs)

CEO? "Steven "Steve" Sydness (born c. 1956) is a politician and businessman who was a North Dakota Republican Party candidate for one of North Dakota's United States Senate seats in 1992, and is the current CEO of the Endurance International Group in Massachusetts.<1>" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sydness.

He is also on the board of a conservative Christian Science school.

Endurance also hosts this site: Eastside Republican Club and many others, including some Christian sites--but interestingly, no progressive or liberal sites. And they do NOT list the "crashers" site in their complete C license listings.

Why should they want to hide it, if "Levin" is just some schmo who paid to host his site there?

Could it be that this is a disinformation campaign created by Republican/Tea Partiers to obfuscate their use of racist, homophobic, violent, lunatic signs at their rallies?



more: http://open.salon.com/blog/greg_correll/2010/04/13/right-wing_hoax