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The footage in question begins about 3:10 into Kiran Chetry's interview with Rand Paul.

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8:00AM : Heading for the Tea Party in Nashville. Leaving this morning with the wife for the Opryland Hotel event, we hope it is worth the money we put out. My wife and I are committed to the Tea Party movement having attended events all over Southwest Ohio and the national event in Washington, DC on 9-12. 2:00 PM : Checked in to the convention and the place is hopping with every cable network sending live feeds. They’re interviewing everything and anything that can walk or talk. My wife and I were interviewed by somebody named Mary from CNN. (told...

US Tea Party Holds First National Conference The first US national convention of the Tea Party movement has begun, with former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin due to appear as a speaker. The movement brings together people who oppose President Barack Obama's healthcare plan, stimulus package and other issues. Some activists have complained about the $500 (£317) registration fee for the Nashville conference. Barely a year old, the movement gained influence during the healthcare debate. TEA PARTY The movement takes its name from the 1773 protest against British taxation, the Boston Tea Party American colonists rebelled against attempts by Britain to...

FOX News will broadcast Sarah Palin’s speech at Tea Party Nation this weekend in Nashville. CNN will also be at the convention but the network has not announced if they will carry her address. The Politico reported: Fox News will broadcast Sarah Palin’s keynote address to the National Tea Party Convention live on Saturday night, allowing millions of viewers to see the main attraction of a gathering that was once criticized for barring the press. The network, which pays Palin as a political analyst and is considered the favored network of conservatives, will carry Palin’s speech during Geraldo at Large...

As others bolt, Sarah Palin stands by 'tea party' convention Other speakers at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., have pulled out, citing ethical questions about the for-profit event. But Sarah Palin says her $100,000 speaker’s fee 'will go right back to the cause.' Sarah Palin at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in November signing copies of her book "Going Rogue." Ms. Palin is the featured speaker at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn. this weekend.Newscom/File By Patrik Jonsson Staff writer / February 3, 2010 Atlanta Others have pulled out of this weekend’s Tea Party Nation convention in Nashville,...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin defended her involvement in the first-ever Tea Party Convention, saying in a column that she will not "benefit financially" from the $100,000 fee she's earning as the keynote speaker. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin defended her involvement in the first-ever Tea Party Convention, saying in a column that she will not "benefit financially" from the $100,000 fee she's earning as the keynote speaker. Two other scheduled speakers, Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., have dropped out after a House ethics committee review urged them to do so, citing questions over how proceeds would...

Even the friendly media is quick to blame the tea party for their flop in the yesterday’s Chicago primary melodrama. None of the candidates supported by the local tea party won the right to meet the democrats in the general election. The truth is there is no one single tea party (in the sense of a conventional political party) – it is just few local grassroots groups.... It is great that the tea party movement has so many faces. Attempts to force it into a shiny casing of a conventional party will fail. It is a grassroots movement of million...

The soul of the Tea Party is the people who belong to it — everyday Americans who grow our food, run our small businesses, teach our children how to read, serve the less fortunate and fight our wars. They're folks in small towns and cities across this nation who saw what was happening to our country and decided to get involved. Thank God for them. Many of these good Americans had never been involved in their government before, but now they attend town hall meetings and participate in online forums. They write letters to the editor. They sign up to...

Tea Party Nation A message to all members of Tea Party Nation Setting The Record Straightby Sherry Phillips  Judson and I have stayed silent in the face of intense media scrutiny and attacks by former members.  As a wife and a mother, I have stood by my husband and family and stayed strong in the face of many baseless accusations and criticism.  We have refrained from responding to many of the attacks that have been thrown at us from other "Tea Party" groups, in the belief we did not want to spread the divisions that are already hurting this movement...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 28, 2010CONTACT: Levi Russell at (509) 979-6615 or Levi@FrontLineStrat.com  Tea Party Express Will Not Be Attending Tea Party Convention "We Wish Them A Very Successful Convention" The leadership of the Tea Party Express wishes to clarify that it will not be attending the Tea Party Nation Convention which takes place February 4th - 6th in Nashville, TN."We are very saddened to announce that we simply will not be able to participate in this convention, despite our initial plans to attend the convention," said Mark Williams, Chairman of the Tea Party Express."We had fully expected to participate in...

Judson and I have stayed silent in the face of intense media scrutiny and attacks by former members. As a wife and a mother, I have stood by my husband and family and stayed strong in the face of many baseless accusations and criticism. We have refrained from responding to many of the attacks that have been thrown at us from other "Tea Party" groups, in the belief we did not want to spread the divisions that are already hurting this movement even though that does not seem to be the consideration of some others involved in this movement. Because...

The controversy over next week’s Tea Party Convention in Nashville has generated a major change in the agenda. Rep. Michele Bachmann has withdrawn from the event after questions were raised over the handling of revenues by the organizers. David Dziok, Bachmann’s Communications Director, sent me a message just a few minutes ago: Due to conflicting advice on whether Congresswoman Bachmann’s participation in the upcoming Tea Party Nation Convention would be in line with the Committee on Standards, Congresswoman Bachmann has decided not to participate in the event. There is uncertainty about how any proceeds from the event may be used,...

America has seen plenty of tea party protests around the country in the last year. The image of tea party activists protesting at a major tea party event, however, would be new. It could happen. Some activists are panning a planned “Tea Party Convention” in Nashville next month, saying the for-profit group Tea Party Nation – which scored a major coup by convincing Sarah Palin to come for a $100,000 speaker’s fee – is trying to co-opt the movement for dubious purposes. The blowup over the convention, which aims to bring together the movement’s discordant voices, points to a key...

The convention is being held at a fancy resort, features $550 ticket prices, a steak and lobster dinner and a guest speaker with a $100,000 speaking fee. It’s sponsored by a for-profit company with a mysterious wealthy benefactor, and its organizers, who have been accused of secrecy and corruption, have threatened lawsuits against dissenters and clamped down on news coverage. Sounds like just the kind of thing that tea party activists, whose populist outrage is directed at the Washington and Wall Street establishments, would be up in arms over. Except it’s a tea party convention. Billed as a pivot...

By attaching herself to this for-profit outfit, Sarah Palin undermines her standing with her very constituents. Many tea party folks are shaking their heads after being the same people to hold up signs supporting Palin. Why not donate time at the Tax Day Tea Party? Why associate with a guy with questionable tea party cred? And these questions beg a bigger question: Who is giving Sarah Palin advice on these matters? Certainly, it does not seem that people tied into the grassroots organizations are being sought for advice. Sarah Palin said on Bill O’Reilly’s show, regarding this engagement, that controversy...

Once again, a number of pundits on both the left and the right were wrong about Sarah Palin. The former governor has been subject of considerable criticism from many, including some widely respected bloggers in conservative circles for demanding, they alleged, a six-figure dollar amount for the speech she will deliver to the Tea Party Convention. Gov. Palin debunked that notion in her discussion with Bill O'Reilly tonight. Here's the transcript of that discussion (from about 5:30 in the second segment): BOR: Finally, you're going to do a Tea Party event in Nashville, Tennessee in February. Now, I predicted that...

...I am afraid Sarah Palin is going to harm herself unintentionally over this tea party convention in Nashville... Let me be blunt: charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a “National Tea Party Convention” run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of sounds as credible as an email from Nigeria promising me a million bucks if I fork over my bank account number...

A "domestic engineer" -- a stay-at-home, mother of 4, is running for Congress in Florida's 8th district against Rep. Grayson. Watch video!

...Romney’s argument with the Iowa talk-radio host starts with the two discussing their shared affinity for W. Cleon Skousen. “You and I share a common affection for the late Cleon Skousen,” the radio host says. The former governor agrees, affirming Skousen was his professor." Who is Cleon Skousen you might ask? In answering that question, it’s hard to even know where to begin. Skousen was by turns an FBI employee, the police chief of Salt Lake City, a Brigham Young University professor, consigliore to former secretary of agriculture and Mormon president Ezra Taft Benson and, well, all-around nutjob. Skousen was...