There’s nothing unusual about finding left wing crappola in Newsweek, so the article “Is The Tea Party Over?” hardly took us by surprise.
It describes tea party members as “Veterans, deeply suspicious of the young liberal president and embittered, ironically, by Congress’s failure to keep its promise to give them government-run health care for life….gun-rights activists, who believed that their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was being put at risk by Barack Obama” and “The faces of talk-show fans, pushed into action by the apocalyptic warnings of personalities like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Those two right-wing talkers had spent the past year telling listeners that the Democratic president was a racist who somehow managed to find the time also to be a Nazi and a communist.”
Talk about your crazy left-wing journalists. This guy sounded as if he was channeling Janet Napolitano and her fear of ‘military veterans’ who are “deeply suspicious” of “the young liberal president.”
Imagine our shock to find out that the article was written by Joe Scarborough. You know the “conservative” guy on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show? Not sure how to break this to you Joe, but most conservatives really seem to like our veterans, thank you very much.
Joe says the tea-party movement, which “should be celebrating its Massachusetts miracle, the collapse of health-care reform, and the destruction of the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority” is instead “at the very moment … at risk of tearing itself apart.”
Scarborough used the rest of the article to criticize Glenn Beck, which is apparently a part of any MSNBC anchor’s contract and also part of a contest among all anchors on the network each month to decide who gets the best parking spot.
We’re not blaming Scarborough for the loss of his mind to liberal bias. In addition to working at MSNBC, he also spent six years in Congress.
We suspect that the combination of the two is more than even the strongest mind can endure.
Source: Newsweek
– Written by Patrick Michael
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Eh, just more Scarborough subterfuge.
Oh, @LauraNo. Ok. That's sad if it's really like that. I'm a conservative, but certainly don't resort to name-calling when I don't agree with someone or like what they said. Goodness, grownups should be able to agree to disagree.
Mouse Wife, he's calling Joe a liberal as an insult because he didn't like what Joe said. You see this kind of reaction all over the internet from conservatives whenever they are displeased.
the fact that he is on "that" network was all I needed to know about him a long time ago.
I'm confused. I'm part of the tea party movement and his description of tea party people seems to fit some of them pretty well. I read the whole article. It doesn't appear he's making fun of them or anything. And on his show, he gets on to anyone who makes fun of Tea Party people. He told Mika to stop calling them "teabaggers"... that it was disrespectful. And he doesn't say anything bad about veterans... just that they're part of the movement. Don't you have veterans coming to your tea parties? We have a lot of them. Some active duty guys too, though they don't come in uniform because of some code. And he's also right about some friction in the Tea Party movement. Even Erick Erickson at Redstate is talking about that. Why do you consider Joe Scarborough liberal? He's always talking about smaller government, lower taxes, balanced budgets and decreasing the welfare state. What's liberal about that?
Since when has he been a conservative?