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Kenya Throws Down On Tea Partiers: We Got Your 'Real Tea Party' Right Here!

Eric Kleefeld | April 20, 2010, 4:35PM

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It's an invitation that would make a Tea Partier's head explode -- and confirm all the worst fears of the Birthers.

The Kenyan government is taking on the Tea Partiers head on -- hosting a "Real Tea Party" in the Capitol next Tuesday to promote the country's status as the world's number one exporter of tea. And they are explicitly contrasting it with the other tea parties that have been held of late on the Hill.

"The Government of Kenya, the world's #1 tea exporter, cordially invites you to a proper Kenyan Tea Party on Capitol Hill (one without a political agenda)," the invitation boasts. (Click link to see the invitation.) "Please join Kenyan Deputy Prime Minister, the Honorable Uhuru Kenyatta, at Kenya's tea tasting event, complete with food pairings and tea leaf readings."

TPM confirmed the event with the Kenyan Embassy.

Of course, according to some other "Tea Party" types out there, it is often said that Kenya's major export is none other than President Barack Obama, who was supposedly born in Kenya, then covertly smuggled into the United States so that a biracial child named Barack Hussein Obama would one day grow up and run for president as part of a grand Marxist conspiracy.

But so far, it just looks like the Kenyans are bringing in some of their fine tea for this Capitol Hill event.

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Ironcomments

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April 20, 2010 5:02 PM   

Nice!

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Demyankee

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April 20, 2010 5:08 PM   

I hope the nutbags can restrain themselves from attending and demanding copies of a certain birth certificate. Drink your tea, eat your cookie, say "Thank you", and otherwise, STFU.

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ohyeathatsright

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April 20, 2010 5:09 PM   

Will Obama attend this Tea Party? Now THAT would send the Teahadists into a tizzy!

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Poop_is_Food

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April 20, 2010 5:44 PM    in reply to ohyeathatsright

God I wish he would. Imagine: Barry Hussein sitting out under the sun with some very black, very rich and distinguished African dignitaries, delicately sipping tea, eating arugula, and looking down their noses at the enraged masses of unwashed, unkempt, unhinged white trash. I think I could die happy if I saw that.

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zonk

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April 20, 2010 6:44 PM    in reply to Poop_is_Food

Hmmm. Given their geographic proximity, I would have to think Kenyan cuisine is similar to Ethiopian - being a big fan of kitfo and tibs, I wonder how one gets an invite.

Which reminds me... dinner time.

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downburst

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April 20, 2010 11:38 PM    in reply to zonk

Alas, there's really no real "Kenyan cuisine" (except maybe nyama choma), and certainly nothing resembling Ethiopian. If you want Ethiopian-ish food in Nairobi, there is (or used to be) a nice Ethiopian restaurant on the James Gichuru Road I can point you to, but that's about it.

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WNCBlue

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April 21, 2010 8:30 AM    in reply to downburst

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that when they say a "proper" tea party, they mean like the kind enjoyed by British expats.

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ejg3

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April 20, 2010 5:15 PM   

First Yes We can and then Yes Tea Kenya.

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MCHowdy

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April 20, 2010 5:47 PM   

Barney?

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Ugg the Repug

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April 20, 2010 5:47 PM   

"The Government of Kenya, the world's #1 tea exporter, cordially invites you to a proper Kenyan Tea Party on Capitol Hill (one without a political agenda)"

Ugg family from Kenya, too. We invent tea when Aunt Gerk fall in hot spring with tea leaf wrap. Har har har.

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tiowally

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April 20, 2010 6:14 PM    in reply to Ugg the Repug

Ugg lie. Everyone know Ugg family from West Palm Beach.

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Ugg the Repug

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April 20, 2010 6:31 PM    in reply to tiowally

Huh? Ugg scratching head. Of course, memory tends to fuzzy after Ugg frozen for many millenniums. Har har har.

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glblank

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April 20, 2010 6:27 PM   

We should all show up in Oily Tits masks, sporting our birth certificates.

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John

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April 20, 2010 6:38 PM   

Perhaps the Tea Party should rename itself after an American crop? Potato Head Party?

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Ugg the Repug

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April 20, 2010 6:42 PM    in reply to John

Ugg say name after American crap? The Republican Party.

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rb6

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April 20, 2010 6:51 PM   

Does that mean the original tea partiers were Kenyan? Does that mean the tea partiers should all have to produce original long form birth certificates to prove that they, too, are not actually Kenyan?

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CityGuy

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April 21, 2010 10:55 AM    in reply to rb6

The Kenyans are actually far more refined and civilized than any of the Teanuts here in the US.

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WaitWut?

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April 20, 2010 7:03 PM   

I wonder how many of those tea bags the 'baggers have been wearing came from...gasp!...KENYA!!!

I can't wait until the inevitable head explosions.

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mass_murdock

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April 20, 2010 7:28 PM    in reply to WaitWut?

Omg! Those tea bags for sure have Kenyan tea in them! They're the #1 exporter!

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datora

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April 20, 2010 10:04 PM    in reply to WaitWut?

So, ummmm ,,,the TeaBuggerers are actually funding the Marxist Kenyan World Domination Jihad to Install a Nazi Mooslim Witch Doctor as the American President Movement ..?

Didn't see that one coming.

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blkblt

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April 20, 2010 7:55 PM   

will they be armed?

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Rick Jones

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April 21, 2010 9:34 AM    in reply to blkblt

Armed with cream and sugar, politness, and proper use of the English language. Devastating.

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Rick Jones

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April 21, 2010 9:34 AM    in reply to Rick Jones

That's politeness.

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sillycita

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April 20, 2010 9:11 PM   

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ Get your Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie while you still can! With the Kenyans coming to Washington, it's only a matter of time before mind control of Citizens is mandatory!

(Does that sound tea party-ish enough?!)

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ohyeathatsright

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April 21, 2010 11:30 AM   

I wonder if the tea party movement has had any material impact on Kenyan tea sales.

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Tosh

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April 26, 2010 12:44 PM   

very nice to see kenya getting some of this


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Tosh

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April 26, 2010 12:45 PM   

were the original tea partiers from kenya then?


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