Chicago Tea Parties
In February 2009, a blog posting on the Playboy website suggested that Sam Adams Alliance was involved in Rick Santelli's call for a "Chicago Tea Party" against President Barack Obama's housing rescue plan. The Playboy blog making this allegation was removed without explanation within two days. An article on Talking Points Memo based on the Playboy allegations was similarly removed. Megan McArdle, writing for The Atlantic, suggested that the items were removed because it had "absolutely no verification of a fact ... central to its core thesis."
The day after the Playboy piece was posted online, but before it was removed, Sam Adams Alliance posted a response on its website, "It would have been nice if we knew about it." On Monday, March 2, Rick Santelli also posted a notice online asserting that he had never had any dealings with, and had no connections to, Sam Adams Alliance.
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