Chuck Todd admits FOX News created and hypes the Tea Party Movement
Chuck Todd actually gets this right on Meet The Press. Gregory played a clip of Dick Armey trying to say that the teabaggers represent the "center" of American politics as bizarre as that may sound and it was Chuck Todd who corrected that lie. FOX News grabbed them, promoted them, sent their hosts to caress and nurture them and were the first network in the history of broadcasting to become true political activists that worked to undermine a newly elected president.
FOX News is the Ministry of Propaganda for the GOP.
MR. GREGORY: There's also the issue of the sort of opposition that the president faces. Where is the Republican Party? We talked a little bit about that. Again, part of the conversation we've had outside the hour today in some outside interviews includes one with Dick Armey, a former congressman who's now part of FreedomWorks, who is part of this tea party movement that was influential in Massachusetts and elsewhere. Here's what he said about the center of American politics.
(Videotape)FMR. REP. DICK ARMEY (R-TX): This is the broad center of American politics. Look at the polling data. Right now the tea party polls higher than the Republicans and the Democrats. And it is becoming increasingly clear to the electorate out there, and they're expressing their understanding, it is the Democrat majority in Congress and the president that's on the liberal fringe and we are on the center. There's no doubt about it.
TODD: I don't know they are in the center. I mean when we did our own polling on this it's clear that the tea party gets a big benefit because there is one news organization that gives them a huge bump all the time. I mean they are favorable among Fox viewers is through the roof and the rest of the country sort of doesn't know a lot about these folks. But the message of the tea party sort of saying the government doesn't work, these institutions and we've got to shrink the size of government, is tapping into what we were just discussing before which is this -- not disgust but sort of this distrust of all institutions that are out there. Government included.
But I think that, I want to go to something E.J. said about the Republican Party. I think the most striking thing about the minority party today is that a Republican can't go home and it's mostly because of this tea party crap cannot go home and sell a piece of pork that they got from Washington. It's now when you bring home something, saying hey, "I brought federal dollars to this," you're on the defensive now. And so that does make the president's challenge -- it's not as if he can trade, you know, go and have these trades with a Susan Collins or an Olympia Snowe or let's say a Lamar -- let's move over to more of the conservative center right -- Lamar Alexander or something like this because they're not getting a benefit at home of bringing something back because we have like destroyed this idea that somehow anything from government that comes through is bad.
The tea party crowd is a hyper-extension of the conservative movement. Sure, it's attracting some hard working Americans who are fed up with the state of the country that the Bush administration left us in, but the base of that movement are the militia, white supremacist, Gold standard, black helicopter, Gospel of Hate movements that FOX News has been trying to main stream into American politics.
When will the media elites (The Villagers) not be afraid to expose this very dangerous precedent that FOX News has set in the media?
(photo via David Weigel)
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Of course the 9/12 grAss roots, CORPORATE FUNDED event was publicised on MSNBC, ABC, CNN, CBS, yes?
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Maybe the G(no)P-baggers can explain how the recent SC(r)OTUS ruling allowing unlimited CORPORATE CASH FUNDING for political campaigns and interests, coupled with FOREIGN CORPORATE FUNDS is about a smaller Government.
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Q U E S T I O N:
Now that FOXPRAVDA has all but hired the leading has been G(no)P-bagger candidates for 2012 and Murdoch is in negotiations with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia to merge their NEWCORPS into a Mega-Empire of Propaganda, (taking breath*), coupled with the recent SC(r)OTUS ruling, I wonder how the Trollie-baggers would feel about President Princess Palin being bought by Saudi Royalty?
*damn this is one lone run-on sentence of a question
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Wasn't this same first cable TV station which announce Bush had won in 2000?
They are the Enquirer and Pravda in one easy channel.
I wish MSNBC would start taking a jab at Foxs' faux liberals. Maybe Keith or Rachael could start doing segments with someone registered Repulican who votes democratic and just make it an over the top version of Fox's fair and balanced schtick. You could have the Republicrat come on to give the other side and flash in big red letters REPUBLICAN!!! under their picture the whole time. Maybe change it to say NO, REALLY HE'S A REPUBLICAN! LOOK IT UP! Meanwhile during the whole segment they're just trashing Republicans and sympathizing with dems like the Faux faux balancers do. Maybe make them look real ugly like that guy fox has with the bowl haircut and the lazy eye Cadell. Just do what they do and have fun with it. It'll drive republians crazy without actually stooping to their level by making it so obvious a satire.
He's such a dope. He misspelled "cigar".
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The Whites Only Basketball League in South Carolina.
ROFLMAO!
Good one.
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Who went into hysterics when the Dixie Chicks had the gall to criticise Bush.
I'd call it irony, but they wouldn't know what it meant.
I think it means something like rain on your wedding day.
Or a song about irony where nothing in the song is actually ironic.
Have you ever been to Texas? Even teachers (if you can call them that) in Texas on strike for higher wages parade signs with mis-spelled words.
and live in Texas...I find your regional bigotry rather offensive.
That said...I would prefer to live elsewhere, but EVERY state has its morans (sic).
If you could see some of the miracles that are performed here in these schools... by good liberal hearts that struggle for students EVERY DAY under the IDIOTS in state government and local school boards... you would not be so quick with a general comment like that against TEACHERS.
Case closed. If you talk back to a Texas teacher what does that get you, shot at?
The Board of Education.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
post on the internet have any bearing on how he'd speak to a student in person? Centrocitta isn't his student.
me-oww!
The "teacher" in question was caught live on tape as she picketed on the steps of the Capitol in Austin with a sign that contained a misspelled word. It was then broadcast on the evening Eyewitness News. In my opinion, that lady had some nerve demanding higher wages and I certainly wouldn't want anybody like her teaching my kids English or any other subject.
Furthermore, this incident happened when Bush the governor and number one Texas Moron was running for president on his "Education" platform. Are you trying to tell me that things have improved under Perry?
Texas has NEVER been about Merit. It's always been about Social promotion, meaning you will get things you don't deserve depending on who you know. Even Lyndon Johnson wore a Medal of Honor he never earned. That takes a lot of balls. And did you happen to notice what the good ole boys from Texas did to our country during the last eight years?
Centrocitta?
You used the plural 'teachers' in the first post then explain in a second post it was 'A' teacher. Was that some kind of spelling/grammatical error? I AM confused.
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miss_kitty,
It's called the Donna Dewberry method of painting.
One broad brush stroke at a time.
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that paintbrush is well loaded.
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me-oww!
the Bob Ross method of painting. The Joy of Painting master uses a putty knife.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Peggy Noonan looks like someone is holding a turd under her nose.
It's called the turd of reality, which
Marie AntionettePeggy refuses to recognize as a prisoner of her elite and exclusionary society of condescending snobs."We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Is it true that Fox News is the only "free" cable news included in basic cable subscriptions in most parts of the US?
I think I read that here at C&L, in someone's comment to another post about Fox News months ago.
Anyone know?
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
They no longer need the GOP.They are in the process of creating their own third party.With the SCOTUS ruling this past week they have everything in place to own and run their own party, lock, stock and barrel. Almost everyone they need is already on their payroll and the few GOP pundits they don't already own can be bought when the political winds continue to blow in Murdoch's favor.While the FCC and the FEC stand by and watch,Murdoch will have unlimited power to control both the party and the message.Now the REAL crazy can begin.
I think a lot of us have gotten it backwards. Fox is not the media arm of the GOP, the GOP is the political arm of Fox News.
by george I think 'ehs got it!
'Talk to the hand'
Amato writes
"The tea party crowd is a hyper-extension of the conservative movement. Sure, it's attracting some hard working Americans who are fed up with the state of the country that the Bush administration left us in, but the base of that movement are the militia, white supremacist, Gold standard, black helicopter, Gospel of Hate movements that FOX News has been trying to main stream into American politics"
There is NOTHING wrong with a gold standard, the USA was on it until Nixon dropped it, and and sure you are not going to tell me he did ANYTHING good. The Swiss were on it until recently and they only dropped it because they could make more cash working the derivatives that bankrupted the USA and that the gold standard prevented.
Dumb, dumb, remark and there is no basis to lump it together with nazis any more than to suggest blue eyed blonds are nazis.
the nazis surely weren't on a gold standard...
The Nazi war machine would have been IMPOSSIBLE to finance on a gold standard.
quite right, although there was a formal gold standard, the monetary base was increased about 7fold during the war in nazi germany.
since the start of the financial crisis, the US has increased its monetary base about 2.5 fold.
It's not an economic bailout, it's a war bailout/ The US has about 4.5 to go. Watch out for that last step, it's a doosie !
that a lot of the US gold is fake.
gold plated bars of titanium .. right?
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
worth FAR less.
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A gaffe is when someone blurts out the truth.
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when will you guys learn that lumping them all together and calling them racists doesn't help you?
of course there are racists. where would you go if you were a racist? to the movement that promotes independence of government of course.
chuck todd made another point: that bringing bribes home from washington is now viewed as despicable. If that is true, I say thank you tea party movement.
If that's what you meant I'm not so sure what I'd do if I was a tried and true racist....someone raised in a culture where hatred of another race was hardwired socially. Maybe I'd be against the government or maybe I'd just go about my life hating other people because of their skin color. In any case, painting a group of people in a certain way broadly is a tactic of politics and is done all the time. I don't personally believe all of the Repubs are racists, mean spirited haters of all things progressive and want America to go back to 1955 values nor do I believe all the Dems are open minded free spirited, bleeding heart pot smoking hippies. Both of those stereotypes suck but both sides have propogated these broad brush myths. And they continue because of the venom spewed in politics today. Personally it doesn't bother me that much because it's childish and silly to say these things but I can understand you being upset by it.
Now, about your Chuck Todd comment...I don't agree. First of all Chuck Todd is a conservative leaning 'journalist'. I've heard his editorializing as he presents his opinions and stories enough times to not take what he says too terribly seriously. Aside from that, since when was taking home bribes from Washington not considered despicable? It's a silly and ridiculous statement to make. The tea party movement was started and probably remains as a result of GOP, Fox and corporate entities funding and organizing. It's not an organic grass roots movement in its origins and even though it may be more organic now that it has been around awhile, I think you have to look clearly at the participants in that movement. Aside from the confusing rhetoric they spew "Obama is a fascist and a socialist???" they don't seem to have a clear agenda or set of ideas that translates to anything practical other than to create havoc and noise. Yeah we get it. You're here, you fear, get used to it. But in the end, if they don't provide anything other than loud, semi auto fueled screes what's the point? I think the Repubs are letting the more radical parts of their constituency have their voice, waiting around until they figure out what will work politically on a national level that will get them back into power. They have nothing to say right now except 'no' to everything. They have no new ideas and it's a shame they won't let Obama (and the dems are guilty of this too) try to do what he says he wanted to do.
What is the future of a nation that has the following mentality?
Believes it is moral to make mega profits off the sick and needy:
Believes it is moral to deny coverage to its citizens for pre existing conditions:
Has 30 to 50 million people without health care insurance:
Has wars for profits for the few creating suffering around the world:
Calls their soldiers heroes for fighting in those wars for profits:
Builds monuments to those soldiers after they had killed one million Vietnamese in an illegal ideological war for profits: then there is Iraq and afghan.
Has a military expense larger than all of the other 23 industrialized countries combined:
Has states where families take pride in raising their children to fight in these illegal and immoral wars for profits:
Has 720 military bases around the world:
Believes that capitalism and patriotism are synonyms:
Corporate and military control of congress, white house, and now the supreme court and the election process:
A government that panders to Wall Street, banks, and corporations for money:
A nation that the prisons are over flowing with crime and drug problems:
One out of eight children on food stamps:
Hundreds of thousands going bankrupt over medical costs unheard of in other industrialized countries:
Corporations control most of the mass media:
A self acclaimed Christian nation that worships at the altar of capitalism an economic and political ideology of survival of the fittest mentality that goes against everything their savior taught:
A nation that has open borders with a third world country not out of compassion but a corporate and small business desire for cheap labor, long hours with no benefits:
A nation that gives tax breaks to corporations and the rich while many of their citizens lack medical care and live in poverty and die in their wars for profits:
A nation that one per cent of the population has more wealth than the bottom 95%:
A nation of tea baggers so dumbed down they are protesting for the very people that funds their efforts but robs them of their personal freedoms and any remaining wealth:
An educational system based on survival of the fittest competition now in shambles:
A university system beholden to the industrial military complex for grants:
A religious university that builds a library in honor of a sociopath and war monger former president that invaded a third world country for their 40 years of oil reserves:
What is the future of such a nation? Self-destruction due to its own immorality?
The interesting reality is that this nation does not have a clue it is an immoral imperialistic nation and capitalism as an ideological system has much to do with this immoral political, military, and economic corruption.
Few will understand my words very few but on this blog I suspect many will understand this nation as a corrupt at the core nation.
I think it was Thom Hartmann who pointed out that Americans still have slaves working for us, but most Americans don't even know it because we don't see the slaves anymore - they live and work in foreign sweatshops.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
There are plenty of wage slaves here in "good old" America.
Class war has always existed, except the working class are not the ones fighting it yet, most are too dumb to see it right before their eyes. Some on this site get it.
Is it the 21st century yet?
Some years ago I worked for an American company that joined a China partnership to build an IRON FOUNDRY outside of Shanghai. The construction campany paid it's laborors the equivalent of $1.50 A DAY plus a HOT MEAL. They came in under budget and they beat their own construction schedules... and that foundry is now producing ONE-HUNDRED-THOUSAND cast iron bath tubs per year for the China and Asian markets.
Won't the bathwater rust them?
The tubs not the Asians.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
the exterior.
Now we get fiberglass or plastic tubs that break every few years needing to be replaced. Now we have a built in form of replacement.
Not to mention the ecological cost. Do they really think we don't know a foundry is less polluting than the life cycle of the plastic?
Porcelain.
You are right tho. Design obsolescence is just the way it is. We are a society of throw it away and get a new one.
That's one of the things I love about Mexico.
It's a fix it society. It's amazing what they come up with.
As for the Chinese, if they continue down the same road, we'll have nothing to worry about. In about 50-75 years.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
... I shaved my balls for this photo.
I'd give it around 235 years or so.
Shows the christian/republican/conservatives as they really are.
racist's, cowards, being led by the greedy!
... that if only one-third of the conversations that went on between Roger Ailes and members of the Republican Thugocracy were made public, the details would, well, uhh... ummm... - actually, I wouldn't be one fucking bit surprised.
FOX NEWS - We Distort, You're Deceived
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Not all cable customers get MSNBC. Everybody gets Fox News in their basic cable plan, but if MSNBC is available, it oftentimes in a premium tier at additional cost. So when Bill-O brays about MSNBC's paltry ratings, remember why that is. It's kind of like Air America - a tree in an uninhabited forest that some philosophers argue makes no sound at all.
That's the case where I live. I'm a student in a college town, and most of the internet/tv services are provided by a single company (ICS-LLC) that has deals with all of the housing companies. I have Fox new and CNN for free, but have to pay about $25/month if I want the premium plan that includes MSNBC.
...and he is probably with them in spirit.
What a colossal disappointment this guy has shown himself to be. Tim, we miss you dearly - RIP.
when hell freezes over or people just tell the media to shove it and take things into their own hands.
Kenneth Tomlinson (Roves buddy) was appointed as chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting board by President George W. Bush, for a two-year term, in September 2003?
(Reagan nominated Tomlinson to be his fourth Director of the Voice of America in 1982 also.)
We really need a purge of PBS and NPR with the cons having infiltrated it successfully and with little to no resistance.
ya see .. that is EXACTLY what the republicans do when they take power .. purge all the opposition from appointed positions and bring onboard all their own people WITH an agenda for each one of them ..
why can't the dems do the same?
.. to the extent that it is legal, or maybe even push the envelope a bit .. but c'mon ..
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
NPR=Never Provoke Republicans
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
"No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived!"
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
What's with all these fat asses with goatees?
We can still see your triple chins.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
You are a bit slow, what might help you is to get away from the effete uber snobs you hang out with at the Beltway cocktail parties and learn how real Americans live.
What you will really learn is that the real world is nothing like the exclusionary Beltway country club that you live in. Real people do not go around congratulating each other on their arrogant bloviating and boasting which you mistake for truthful political dialogue.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Do you think we are stupid or did you have a brain fart? FAUX is in bed with the Saudis and the Teabagging Taliban.
i hope Chuck didn't just figure this out...
Just a fookin Genius that guy. I'm so glad we have such smart and intellectual journalists in the media nowadays.
I swear, nuthin gets by these intellectuals.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
i am so glad i used my time machine to come here from april 2009 to find out about this...thanks future people!...
Is still bigotry.
STFU.
but they knew those talking points instinctively - they weren't acting - they've been hearing a lot of the same shit over and over for years from limbaugh and spawn.
IMO teabaggers were birthed on coordinated repetition that is never challenged in real time by anyone. they dittoheads first- the face of limbaugh and sons. and their managers rely on the left never being able to contest the radio propaganda before it hits the mainstream. so we have a media full of commentators who analyze and evaluate politics and dem performance and the popularity of the GOP in a tak radio vacuum, while 1000 uncontested radio stations pound away at progressive candidates and causes like an invisible 2x4, unnoticed by those who claimed to get obama's back.
IMO fox is completely dependent on talk radio to prechew its material. when the left starts picketing their local megastations, which are the power centers of the GOP and shout over any framing and messaging the left tries to do, the mainstream will have to stop giving the right a free ride.
one of the best periods in the media for dems was after obama named limbaugh head of the party and all the republican pols and media operatives had RUSH tattooed on their foreheads. but it turned into personal attacks on rush and the talk radio machine that has so much to say on what is and hat isn't acceptable in media and politics got let off.
dems can win in nov if they figure this out and go to teabagger headquarters to picket, and complain to local sponsors of those stations. otherwise its more of the same, with the GOP think tanks doing all the framing.
...should be settled with a contest.
I vote for a spelling bee.
Chuck reminds us that even a broken Clock is, right twice in one Day.
The Media is so Lazy that it is almost Comical! We listen to Democracy Now.org everyday. It is Funny how it takes the Mainstream Media sometimes Two to Three weeks to catch up.
Well, no shit Chuck. Boy, there's some real news from the MSM eh?
Pssst... Chuck. We figured that out on the blogosphere months ago, if you'd gotten your head outta your ass and reported back when it was relevant, it mighta made a difference.
Corporate News. We'll let you know when WE think it's no longer relevant.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
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