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lilwing88
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Look, I'm not a Tea Party Member or Activist. I don't necessarily support the Tea Party either. I DO, however, find it interesting how upset the left gets over the big, bad, evil Tea Party. I hear the comments from everyone about how they're "teabaggers", racists, hillbillies, nutjobs and all sorts of other names. I expect bloggers and internet folk to belittle them and their cause. I expect attacks from people who don't really know anything about the Tea Party Movement to make up stuff and crack jokes. But what I DON'T expect is to see this stuff in the mainstream media........
I couldn't find the video of the interview, but I found the transcript. It's from Fri, Oct 1st. Here, read for yourself:
OLBERMANN: The other great stateto prove this is not just a New York thing for a change. In California, Meg Whitman does not seem to be in quite as complicated nor bad a predicament but its very specific. Its right on point.
Shes made a big deal about holding the employers of the undocumented accountable. So, is this more like a direct small laser hit against her?
HILDEBRAND: Well, I think what youre seeing is a pattern amongst these Republican conservative candidates that are aligning themselves with the Tea Party. Theyre going farther and farther and farther to the right as possibly as far as they can get. You know, these folks are becoming more and more dangerous. And I say that in a sincere way.
Meg Whitman has a real problem here. Shes looking weak. She is hemorrhaging. You know, its hard to justify being a billionaire and not being able to probably pay for taxes and things like that. She is part of the problem in this country.
But, Keith, you know, you got to point out that these Tea Party Republicans, you know, in addition to the lying and cheating and stealing, theyre also deceiving the American people in who they really are.
These are the same people that are going to destroy Social Security, that are going to dismantle Medicare and Medicaid. Theyre going to take away workers rights. Theyre going to repeal womens rights. They are fiscal conservatives who are going to destroy government and theyre also social conservatives who are going to destroy peoples lives.
OLBERMANN: Democratic strategist Steve Hildebrand of Hildebrand Strategies Consultinggreat thanks for (INAUDIBLE).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39501646/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/
Wow......
The fact that Keith didn't even attempt to have this Hildebrand guy even site one example or instance of the charges he made at the Tea Party Movement or Republicans, just goes to show the level that the left-wing media has sunk to. I know this is commentary and editorial-type journalism, but have a little sense of what it means to be a journalist, would ya? If you're gonna have a guy on a show that calls people "liars, cheaters, and thieves" then at least have the decency to ask that person to back up their accusations....
Again, I'm not really defending the Tea Party (for all I know they ARE a bunch of liars, cheats and theives), just commenting on how the media on both sides of the fence have taken a turn for the worse with the "smear" style of journalism.
I couldn't find the video of the interview, but I found the transcript. It's from Fri, Oct 1st. Here, read for yourself:
OLBERMANN: The other great stateto prove this is not just a New York thing for a change. In California, Meg Whitman does not seem to be in quite as complicated nor bad a predicament but its very specific. Its right on point.
Shes made a big deal about holding the employers of the undocumented accountable. So, is this more like a direct small laser hit against her?
HILDEBRAND: Well, I think what youre seeing is a pattern amongst these Republican conservative candidates that are aligning themselves with the Tea Party. Theyre going farther and farther and farther to the right as possibly as far as they can get. You know, these folks are becoming more and more dangerous. And I say that in a sincere way.
Meg Whitman has a real problem here. Shes looking weak. She is hemorrhaging. You know, its hard to justify being a billionaire and not being able to probably pay for taxes and things like that. She is part of the problem in this country.
But, Keith, you know, you got to point out that these Tea Party Republicans, you know, in addition to the lying and cheating and stealing, theyre also deceiving the American people in who they really are.
These are the same people that are going to destroy Social Security, that are going to dismantle Medicare and Medicaid. Theyre going to take away workers rights. Theyre going to repeal womens rights. They are fiscal conservatives who are going to destroy government and theyre also social conservatives who are going to destroy peoples lives.
OLBERMANN: Democratic strategist Steve Hildebrand of Hildebrand Strategies Consultinggreat thanks for (INAUDIBLE).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39501646/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/
Wow......
The fact that Keith didn't even attempt to have this Hildebrand guy even site one example or instance of the charges he made at the Tea Party Movement or Republicans, just goes to show the level that the left-wing media has sunk to. I know this is commentary and editorial-type journalism, but have a little sense of what it means to be a journalist, would ya? If you're gonna have a guy on a show that calls people "liars, cheaters, and thieves" then at least have the decency to ask that person to back up their accusations....
Again, I'm not really defending the Tea Party (for all I know they ARE a bunch of liars, cheats and theives), just commenting on how the media on both sides of the fence have taken a turn for the worse with the "smear" style of journalism.
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The right is so far from the mainstream it's pathetic. If anyone is a so-called teapartier then they should really find out where the money is coming from that is funding their so called party and really look at who they think they are voting for. I know several teabaggers who left the movement due to what that movement is part of. They were mislead too. Locally I talked to a small group that had a bunch of signs and most of them were protesting healthcare reform. After talking to them I realized they were totally mis-informed. It's all it is. This movement and the people running under it are nuts. The true tea partier is just upset and mad. Which I agree, though aligning themselves with the people that put everything where it is, and now these people are nuttier and more dangerous than before. Education is the key, finding out what your doing, who is funding it, what the people who are running are about and how they handle the issues.
Personally, I'm not part of the tea party movement, but I don't see what's wrong with tax cuts, downsizing government, giving more power to the Constitution, and cutting wasteful programs.
Keith and Hilldebrand were discussing Whitman's controversy over her hired help being illegal. A scandal that has been proven trivial since day one. They somehow come to the conclusion that all Republican and Tea Party candidates are liars, cheats and thieves.
You're right in saying that education is the key. What Keith and his "strategic" friends are doing is wrong and doing a disservice to their viewers and listeners.....
I tend to stay away from the "ultra" anything. Olbermann, Maddow, Rush, Beck, Hannity..... they're all the same, really. I like to listen to more "middle of the road" folks.
Gypsy....I agree that most of the "red" people you refer to is middle america, the trouble is a good amount of middle america resmbles the movie Napoleon Dynamite....and they get to vote, not just feed Tina or record Rico throwing the pigskin.