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calimary

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14. BINGO. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 11:58 AM

Oct 2013

This is what started it.

During reagan.

You know, I wish to hell chris matthews would shut the fuck up about his damn book. Every time I see an image of ronald reagan I want to throw up. That's where it all started. The reagan era was where all this SHIT that we're going through now - STARTED. You look at ANYBODY (or some organization) beyond and beneath and behind the upstarts and invariably it'll be somebody who (or organization that) got started during the 80s under the cover reagan provided.

When he came onto the national scene I feared he was the most dangerous man in America because of the nice soft gentle warm-fuzzy and presumably "harmless" way he could sell these shit concepts to a gullible, unsuspecting public.

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I lay the blame for the influence of the so-called Tea Party on the MSM including [View all] PCIntern Oct 2013 OP

Yep. Just yesterday there was a post here about a Fox talking head calling the Tea Party .... Scuba Oct 2013 #1

The death of the "Fairness Doctrine" BumRushDaShow Oct 2013 #2

BINGO. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. calimary Oct 2013 #14

I've heard Jamaal510 Oct 2013 #22

PLUS A BRAZILLION! nt Enthusiast Oct 2013 #24

And don't think those who worked to kill the FD didn't know what the results would be. Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2013 #20

You bet. This morning Ted Cruz was ALL OVER the MSM airwaves. Triana Oct 2013 #3

This Saviolo Oct 2013 #13

Me too.......nt Enthusiast Oct 2013 #25

It also did not help that our Party's political leadership reacted to the Bircher Bluenorthwest Oct 2013 #4

Right you are 100%! Nt PCIntern Oct 2013 #5

Very true. Thanks for saying it. n/t QC Oct 2013 #10

yes! lack of backbone. nt ellenrr Oct 2013 #29

Great OP! K & R. freshwest Oct 2013 #6

I remember those times well. pangaia Oct 2013 #7

It's interesting to note how differently the MSM treated Teabaggers vs. OWS. Marr Oct 2013 #8

sounds like big Cahoots to me. Whisp Oct 2013 #9

Not just the media. Enthusiast Oct 2013 #27

I blame Tea Party inluence on talk radio and Fox News ... JEFF9K Oct 2013 #11

The TP would have fizzled out without big bucks from the Koch bros. Think John Birch Society. Hamlette Oct 2013 #12

Compromise with Tea Party? ewagner Oct 2013 #15

It's called pay to play washnwmn Oct 2013 #16

Very well said. Thank you LoisB Oct 2013 #17

There is something to MSNBC polynomial Oct 2013 #18

K&R! Cha Oct 2013 #19

Good point! The M$M enables these dangerous idiots Rex Oct 2013 #21

The US media is an absolute failure. Enthusiast Oct 2013 #23

The MSM is a business. It sells audiences to advertisers; always has. KurtNYC Oct 2013 #30

+1,000 malaise Oct 2013 #26

Absolutely correct. They are so careful not to point out anything that may imply racist attitudes lostincalifornia Oct 2013 #28

They cover the Tea Party because the audience for cable news is KurtNYC Oct 2013 #31

Excellent point... PCIntern Oct 2013 #32