The Billionaires' Tea Party (movie)
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Taki Oldham
- Production companies: Larkin Lane Films
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 2/4/2011
- Run time: 54 min.
Movie description
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?
