Political eyes and ears are now focused on the Tea Party convention whose big weekend speaker will be former Alaska Gov. and likely 2012 Presidential aspirant Sarah Palin. But there are now some big squabbles and divisions in Tea Partyland.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.