Expensive Tea

Expensive Tea

by digby

Surprise. Some people are making a ton of money on the tea party movement. The Yahoo Newsroom looked into some of the bigger names and it’s clear that this is a good career move.

This guy is the one who really surprises me:

Andrew Breitbart
• Web publisher, author, pundit, speaker
• $500,000-plus

How he parties: Breitbart is the owner of five websites (Breitbart.com, Breitbart.tv, BigHollywood.com, BigGovernment.com, and BigJournalism.com) and a regular speaker at Tea Party rallies across the country. He gave a keynote address at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville in February and will be giving the keynote at the National Tea Party Unity Convention in Las Vegas in July. Breitbart has become an outspoken critic of the left and defender of the Tea Party against what he sees as unfair media attacks.

Breitbart says he plans to expand his empire soon by launching three more sites: Big Peace, Big Education and Big Tolerance. Breitbart was also paid $500,000 for an upcoming book, “Thinking Big.”

Somebody actually paid this bozo 500k for a book? The recession certainly hasn’t adversely affected the welfare queens. That’s unbelievable.

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