Predictable: MSNBC’s Shuster, Newsweek’s Gross Belittle And Misconstrue Tea Party Efforts

 

By Jeff Poor

MSNBC logo SC Predictable: MSNBC’s Shuster, Newsweek’s Gross Belittle and Misconstrue Tea Party Efforts

Even before a single bag of tea has been dumped as a form of protest over government economic policies, the gang at MSNBC is in full-attack mode over the notion these protests merit any recognition.
On MSNBC’s April 10 “Countdown,” fill-in host David Shuster imitated his MSNBC colleague Rachel Maddow’s juvenile and overdone description of the tea party protest to disparage the upcoming nationwide event.
“Now to the so-called ‘teabagging parties’ you may have heard about,” Shuster said. “They have been fluffed repeatedly by Fox News. Citizen protests over the government’s collection of taxpayer money, specifically that the wealthiest taxpayers in our nation will see their rates go up 3 percent two years from now.”

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