What's the Deal With the Tea-baggers?

By The Daily Show

April 16, 2009

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Although a general feeling of dissatisfaction with the current administration drove the organization for the tax day tea parties, the day brought out a confusing set of grievances. Jon Stewart alluded to that confusion, the implicit support of the demonstrations by Fox News and the fact that the parties mostly seemed like a protest on irony.

--Gabriela Resto-Montero

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