"Tea Party" photo turns out to be Promise Keepers' rally


	"Tea Party" photo turns out to be Promise Keepers' rally

masbury

9-14-2009 8:41 PM

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tea bag, right-wing, lies

masbury says:

Photo spread on the web to bolster exhorbitant claims of Saturday's Tea Bag protest in Washington are of a PK Rally held there in 1997.

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9-14-2009 9:16 PM

BobbyRutan

Look.... I believe ... I see.. .. Promise Keeper... GOP Nevada Senator Ensign with his wife....no wait...... some floozy.... my bad.

9-14-2009 9:28 PM

hungbv

"You lie"guy' friends lie again.

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