Ed Rendell To Fox News: 'You Guys Deserve More Credit For Marshaling That Anger Than The Tea Partiers'
From Raw Story -- Dem governor: Fox News outdid tea partiers in ‘marshalling anger’: Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Ed Rendell, told the h
From Raw Story -- Dem governor: Fox News outdid tea partiers in ‘marshalling anger’:
Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Ed Rendell, told the hosts of Fox & Friends Monday that they "deserve credit" for the success of the tea party movement, and that the movement could well dissipate if the economy improves.
"You guys deserve more credit for marshaling that anger than the tea partiers," Rendell told hosts Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, adding that he was "being serious" in making the claim and that "it's your right to do so."
In a long monologue during which the news hosts sometimes had trouble getting a word in edgewise, Rendell said that the tea party movement paled in size when compared to the anti-war movement during the Bush era, and that the tea parties "have been successful because the mainstream media, the media all over the country, has given them too much credit. I think they're sort of following the anger, rather than creating the movement." Read on...