The Billionaires' Tea Party

• Movies
• 2011-02-04
• EN
• Released
• 0h 54m
• US
• Documentary

• 0.0
• 0

Production

Larkin Lane Films

Storyline

After Barack Obama swept to power promising a new era of hope and change, the emergence of a citizens protest movement called the Tea Party threatened to derail his agenda. Was this uprising the epitome of grassroots democracy? Or was it an example of "astroturfing" - the creation of fake grassroots groups, designed to put corporate messages in the mouths of seemingly independent citizens?