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Contessa Brewer's Attempt To Discredit Tea Party Freshman Boomerangs Bigtime!
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 07/20/2011 10:46:44 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Contessa Brewer doesn't have a law degree. So perhaps the MSNBC host was unaware of the old cross-examination adage: never ask a question to which you don't know the answer.

Arguing with Rep. Mo Brooks today over raising the debt ceiling, Brewer attempted to discredit the Tea Party Republican freshman Member of Congress from Alabama by asking "do you have a degree in economics?"

"Yes, ma'am, I do. Highest honors," [from Duke] answered the courtly congressman. Ruh-roh! Hat tip NB readers CWH and Felix B.

View video here.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: contessabrewer; debtceiling; mobrooks; msnbc
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1 posted on 07/20/2011 10:46:54 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Does Contessa have an economics degree? Does Obama?


2 posted on 07/20/2011 10:48:03 AM PDT by MissesBush (Raising taxes on an economy in a death spiral is like taking up smoking when you have emphysema)
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Hysterical! Contessa Brewer gets an answer she wasn’t expecting when trying to discredit a Tea Party freshman. Ping to Today show list.


3 posted on 07/20/2011 10:48:06 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I love the blurb at the botoom of the screen that 58% support Obama’s debt plan. LMAO, what debt plan?? He’s not presented one!!! Gotta love the US news media. What a bunch of dunces and zombies.


4 posted on 07/20/2011 10:49:01 AM PDT by MissesBush (Raising taxes on an economy in a death spiral is like taking up smoking when you have emphysema)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“do you have a degree in economics?”

These days, a ‘degree in economics’ seems to be comprised of the ability to spell “unexpected”...


5 posted on 07/20/2011 10:49:52 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

PWNED!!!! :)


6 posted on 07/20/2011 10:50:21 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What’s her face look like afterwards?

WHAM! Is it completely flattened?

/can’t watch the linked video now


7 posted on 07/20/2011 10:50:30 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

couldn’t happen to a nicer schmuck!


8 posted on 07/20/2011 10:50:54 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Springman
Contessa, Do you a big butt?
9 posted on 07/20/2011 10:51:09 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't go wobbly on me now GOP leadership)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Zing, you commie b*tch...


10 posted on 07/20/2011 10:51:24 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Contessa Brewer -

University's Newhouse School of Public Communications with a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism in 1996, as well as a Certificate of Contemporary Europe following her political studies in Strasbourg, France.[1]

A J school education gives one such a broad base to pontificate about economics.

Can that possibly be her real name?

11 posted on 07/20/2011 10:53:23 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Sir Napsalot

She moved on as quickly as possible but the impact was nice :)


12 posted on 07/20/2011 10:53:54 AM PDT by Principled
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To: DManA

Also from the wiki article:

In August 2009, Brewer was criticized by conservative blogs for a story about a man carrying an AR-15 assault rifle at an Obama appearance in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 17.[6][7] MSNBC was accused of editing the video to conceal the race of the man, who was black, and Brewer commented “you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped to their waists or to their legs.”[8][9]

In May 2010, Brewer received criticism for her comments about the Times Square car bomb attempt:

There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country, because there are a lot of people who want to use this terrorist intent to justify writing off people who believe in a certain way or come from certain countries or whose skin color is a certain way. I mean they use it as justification for really outdated bigotry.[10][11][12][13]


13 posted on 07/20/2011 10:55:23 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

How funny that Journalism gets a science degree!


14 posted on 07/20/2011 10:56:25 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (There is no native criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He attended Duke, graduated in 3 years, double major, political science/economics (highest honors).

Graduated University of Alabama School of Law in ‘78.

That’s an impressive education.

She certainly walked into that.....


15 posted on 07/20/2011 10:56:25 AM PDT by Sporke (USS-Iowa BB-61)
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To: MissesBush
Whole family ROTFLOUAO ~ cats, dogs, people, neighborhood coyote, crows, the hawk ~ yes even the redtailed hawk in the backyard ~ she's ROTFLHAO ~ BWAHAHAHAH.

Did you check her expression at the end of the bit where she's looking over to her PRODUCER who left her the stupidest script to follow in response.

We're all going to starve! BWAHAHAHAHAHA

16 posted on 07/20/2011 10:57:33 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“do you have a degree in economics?” “Yes maam, I do” click errrrr (dial tone)


17 posted on 07/20/2011 10:58:05 AM PDT by albie
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Yes, ma'am, I do. Highest honors," [from Duke] answered the courtly congressman.

LOL, it's nice to see the enemy crumble to dust, especially when there is a strong wind blowing.

The only thing better would have been if it was Chrissie Matthews.

18 posted on 07/20/2011 11:00:11 AM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: MissesBush

Whoop!!! Hep me hep me Hairball GAAAAACK!!!!! Hairball!!!!!!!


19 posted on 07/20/2011 11:00:16 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: DManA

Contessa Brewer proves that you do not have to be a genius to be a useful idiot.


20 posted on 07/20/2011 11:00:29 AM PDT by Made In The USA (This post may be recorded for quality purposes.)
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