Bob McCarty Writes

In a post two years ago this week, I reported on the story of Steve McQueen, a leader of the then-fledgling Quincy (Ill.) Tea Party, who was prevented from speaking at a meeting of the local city council: It was the last thing McQueen expected to have happen when he appeared at the meeting last [...]

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When I examined the fine print on the flyer about the National & International Day of Action & Unity, I looked for a Tea Party logo but didn’t find one.  Still, I concluded, blacks organizing these protests could, with a little direction, qualify as Tea Partiers. The fine print appeared below an ALL-CAPS BOLDFACE declaration:  [...]

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Today might go down in the history books as a bad day for new Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley, a Republican from Perryville, Mo. First, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an article within which the term “race baiting” was used to describe a member of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition who had written a [...]

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It appears as if a dyed-in-the-wool liberal is trying to fool the public into thinking members of the Tea Party Movement support his controversial budget proposal for the Empire State.  That politician is New York’s recently-elected Democrat governor, Andrew Cuomo. Tonight, because I suspect it won’t be the last attempt by libs like Cuomo to [...]

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Little did CNBC reporter Rick Santelli know how far his message would carry after he issued a call for a Chicago Tea Party from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Feb. 19, 2009.  After spreading across the United States during the past 23 months, it appears that a grassroots movement, similar to the Tea [...]

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On Friday, I shared my favorite interview stories of 2010.  Today, I share my three most-viewed videos of the year.  They appear below: 1. Shot April 28 in Quincy, Ill., and appearing in a post the following day, the most-viewed video has generated more than 54,000 views in eight months.  More importantly, it proved what [...]

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Every year, it gets more difficult to decide what to include in my end-of-year wrap-up stories.  This year, I decided to reflect on my favorite interviews of 2010.  They appear below: Roy Blunt Needs Education About Tea Party Folks — During a Feb. 26 interview with Roy Blunt, the seven-term congressman who would go on [...]

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