Posted on 06/16/2014 2:22:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Kirsten Powers, a Democrat who served in Bill Clinton's administration, said the mainstream media want to portray the Tea Party as bigots and racists and are not capable of understanding what the movement is about. She also said that the Republican establishment plays into these biases and deliberately pushes unfavorable memes about the Tea Party to gullible -- and biased -- reporters.
While discussing Dave Brat's shocking upset over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Fox News' Media Buzz this weekend with host Howard Kurtz, Powers said the elites in the media and the permanent political class "who can't relate" to regular Americans are the ones demeaning the Tea Party.
"I don't think the mainstream media is capable of understanding the Tea Party, based on what I have watched," Powers said. "They want them to be a bunch of bigots who hate Barack Obama and are driven by their racist hatred of Barack Obama."
Powers said she was told she was crazy for pushing back against the media narrative that proclaimed the Tea Party was all but done.
"I actually never bought it, and I was treated like I was crazy," Powers said, acknowledging that it never made sense to her because the two potential GOP 2016 presidential candidates who are getting the most buzz are Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), who have been buoyed by the Tea Party movement....
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Taxed
Enough
Already
Seems pretty darned clear to everyone that listens.
Soon your utility, food, medical and gasoline bills will triple. Officially, that won’t be a “tax” but in reality, it might as well be.
Kirsten Powers might be a democrat, but she’s nobody’s fool... One smart cookie there...
“Kirsten Powers, a Democrat who served in Bill Clinton’s administration, said the mainstream media want to portray the Tea Party as bigots and racists and are not capable of understanding what the movement is about. She also said that the Republican establishment plays into these biases and deliberately pushes unfavorable memes about the Tea Party to gullible — and biased — reporters. “
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I cannot believe I just read that.
This article is completely, totally right.
Good post. Thanks.
100% right.
Comments?
“Yeah, I’d hit that”.
Liberals and normal people are two separate species that share nothing in common outside random genetics. they cant understand what is alien to their entire being.
And thats not hyperbole. How many things does an MSM darling share with a farmers wife? Seriously? body parts. Aside from that, nothing. How about a DC metrosexual and a lumberjack? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
They take a racist/Nazi view of superiority they have not earned, can back up, nor exists. So trying to make sense of them is a fools errand. They are what they are. Something other than ‘us’.
And that right there is what is wrong with this country and it's government: PERMANENT political class, and the Presstitutes, of course.
Especially that all white news channel MSNBC. Oh, wait, they do have Sharpton.
She seems to be coming around contrasted from what she used to be. Couple of years ago she only mouthed the Demo talking points now she seems to be thinking for herself. I am glad, we need the help.
She does this every month or so then goes right back to drooling sycophancy. Don’t get your hopes up. It’s a ploy.
Powers is smart. Smart enough to realize she has a much brighter future as a TV talking head if she uses her brain than if she just becomes a female version of Juan Williams and spews every DNC talking point 24/7. She walks the line between pissing off liberals and making them think about how wrong they are more adroitly than anyone else on her side.
Yeah. . .but his head is full of nothing but ‘white noise’ static.
I recall reading on FR about a year ago that this woman had become a believer in Jesus. Could it be that the Holy Spirit is leading this person to working out her salvation, and we are beginning to see public evidence of it.
White we much!
Hmmmm...
Something is going on.
Kirstin Powers understand the concept of the Tea Party.
Donna Brasil and Chris Matthews both warn that the establishment needs to consider the Tea Party as a viable force in politics.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Has Karl Rove been found yet? He seems to have be missing since last Tuesday’s Cantor defeat.
Yes, IIRC I’ve heard her mention that on-air. So is Bob Beckel.
I hope he stays lost.
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