{"id":3459,"date":"2012-03-13T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/03\/13\/this-was-purely-political-operation\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:17:53","slug":"this-was-purely-political-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3459","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This Was Purely A Political Operation&#8221; &#8211; Judson Phillips, Tea Party Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16138,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/mediamatters.org\\\/blog\\\/201203120009&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mediamatters.org\\\/blog\\\/201203120009&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16139,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/tea-party-nation-founder-slams-gop.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251108192636\\\/https:\\\/\\\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/tea-party-nation-founder-slams-gop.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 18:55:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 18:55:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16140,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/waiting-for-boner-tea-parties-take-on.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260124115346\\\/https:\\\/\\\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/waiting-for-boner-tea-parties-take-on.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 18:55:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 18:55:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16141,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/sitrep-gist-of-it.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, was interviewed on FoxNews this morning about his group&#8217;s call for the GOP leaders to get moving again on Operation Fast and Furious. He disagreed with Fox&#8217;s Jamie Colby that this was a botched sting operation. Instead, he said &#8220;this was purely a political operation&#8221; meant to increase support for gun control in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>When asked specifically what he wanted GOP leaders to do, Phillips said, &#8220;I want them to get more aggressive on this and get more aggressive with the Obama Administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Watch the latest video at &amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/video.foxnews.com&#8221;&amp;amp;amp;gt;video.foxnews.com&amp;amp;amp;lt;\/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201203120009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Foundation-funded Media Matters<\/a> said of the Fox interview that Phillips was a &#8220;right wing extremist&#8221; who &#8220;spent the interview promoting the right-wing conspiracy theory that Fast and Furious was a plot to promote gun control instead of a failed law enforcement investigation.&#8221; Mike Vanderboegh, as might be expected, <a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/tea-party-nation-founder-slams-gop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had a diametrically opposite view of the interview<\/a>. He had more to say on the GOP leadership and Project Gunwalker <a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/waiting-for-boner-tea-parties-take-on.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in this earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Mike, please keep him and his family in your prayers. He will be operated on tomorrow for a <a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/sitrep-gist-of-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gastrointestinal stromal tumor or GIST<\/a>. From what Mike has written, they don&#8217;t know for sure if this tumor is benign or malignant and won&#8217;t know until the pathologists test it. Either way, it is serious stuff.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, was interviewed on FoxNews this morning about his group&#8217;s call for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3900,2544,97,544,3054],"class_list":["post-3459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-judson-phillips","tag-media-matters","tag-mike-vanderboegh","tag-project-gunwalker","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7785,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions\/7785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}