Desc: The Billionaires' Tea Party: Directed by Taki Oldham. With David H. Koch, Tim Phillips, Kert Davies, Myron Ebell. 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?