Tea party activists are pawns to corporate interests, Clinton says

[laureloak]

Quote: "They think the little guy gets the shaft, and that's largely been true. But they are pawns in a larger game," he said. " was a protest against abuse of government power. The people that are funding this tea party are trying to weaken the government at a moment where people are queasy about the government because there was nobody else to step in when the economy was flat, so they can have unaccountable private power."


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-pn-clinton-elections-20100918,0,5214309.story

[blm]

1. Say THAT on Larry King Live for a change.

On Daily Show he'll usually tell the truth for that audience. On LKL he'll usually defend Bushes and their corporate pals with his gracious 'understanding' of their good intentions based on 'honest' differences.

Ping pong. One player.

[aquart]

2. You watch Larry King?

[blm]

4. Not now...but, in its newsmaking heyday I did along with ALOT of political junkies

Point being is that he WOULDN'T make that statement on a CNN show.

Like when he implied at an indy press convention in 2005 that 2004 election was probably stolen - something he'd NEVER say to mainstream press.

[MichiganVote]

3. Bill Clinton was a pawn too. We all are.

[thereismore]

7. NAFTA. Gatt. WTO. nt

[David Zephyr]

5. Capsulized truth delivered as only Clinton can do it. Thanks, laureloak, for the story.

Superb truth telling.

K&R

[pleah]

6. Well, duh!