A play on "Tea Party Patriot", which is a term individual Tea Party supporters use to describe themselves and a phrase in the name of local and national Tea Party groups. This describes members who "parrot" back lies and half-truths they hear on Fox News and conservative talk radio with no real knowledge or understanding to support them.
That Tea Party Parrot kept talking about "death panels", but when I asked her what those were, exactly, she was speechless.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)