PJTV announced today its launch of a twice-a-week Internet TV show that will offer comprehensive coverage of the tea-party movement.
The show is hosted by PJTV commentators Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com and University of Tennessee law professor; AlfonZo Rachel, from PJTV's ZoNation; and radio host Dana Loesch.
PJTV, a division of Pajamas Media, describes itself as the "first center-right online television network, providing commentary and analysis via video over the Internet." The organization's main studio is located in El Segundo, Calif., with remote studio locations in New York City and Washington, D.C., and web cam locations around the world.
The first episode of Tea Party TV will include interviews with tea-partiers at the recent National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. One interview at the convention features Lyda Loudon, 14-year-old founder of Tea Party Youth, an organization geared toward getting young generations involved in the tea-party movement.
PJTV also features a the full keynote speech by WND founder Joseph Farah in its extensive archive of tea-party videos from the Nashville convention.
"The Tea Party Movement isn't going away," Roger L. Simon, CEO of Pajamas Media, said in a statement today. "The anger and frustration felt by voters are real, and as a news organization, we plan to cover that frustration as it continues to fester and grow. PJTV will be on the leading edge covering this movement, its leaders and the ideas that give the movement its strength."
According to the PJTV website, Tea Party TV will cover "all facets of the grass-roots movement," including:
- What tea-party groups are forming and who is working together and who isn't
- How the tea party groups are working with the GOP, independents and libertarians
- Who the emerging leaders are and what they stand for
- What issues and challenges the tea parties are tackling
- What media outlets are covering the tea parties and which aren't
- What the polls say about the impact of the tea parties
In addition to its coverage of the convention, a PJTV reporter joined the Tea Party Express bus tour last fall, visiting 38 cities and uploading more than 100 videos documenting the movement.
Meanwhile, BigGovernment.com reports Democrat political operatives and former "Clintonistas" have recently participated in a conference call in which they brainstormed a coordinated counterattack on the tea-party movement.
"Big Government has learned that Clintonistas are plotting a 'push/pull' strategy," the website reports. "They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the tea party movement and engage in deep opposition research on them. If possible, they will identify one or two they can perhaps 'turn,' either with money or threats, to create a mole in the movement. The others will be subjected to a full-on smear campaign."
According to the report, commentator James Carville is expected to lead the effort.
"Expect the counterattack soon," Big Government cautions. "Don't say you haven't been warned."
As WND reported, Democrat operatives have already launched a major ad campaign to "prevent the tea party's dangerous ideas from gaining legislative traction."
The ads, paid for and approved by the American Public Policy Committee, have also appeared on Facebook and Twitter, where the group asks tweeters, "Scared of the teabaggers' crazy ideas?"
The American Public Policy Committee shares an identical suite address with the Alliance for North Carolina; the Patriot Majority; and Sandler, Reiff & Young PC – the law firm of Joseph Sandler, general counsel to the Democratic National Committee who filed a motion to dismiss Philip Berg's eligibility lawsuit against Obama and the DNC. Sandler is also former counsel to both MoveOn.org and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim group named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist-finance case in U.S. history.
TheTeaPartyIsOver.org has connections to numerous unions, including the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, a major public-employee and health-care union.
In 2008, AFSCME publicly endorsed then-candidate Barack Obama, spent $50 million for "voter education" on his behalf and mobilized more than 40,000 volunteers to campaign for him.