I saw some portion of this – and O’Lielly spent most of it shouting down and talking over Vandehei – but Vandehei held his own and O’Lielly’s bloviating was just the usual spin. Fox Not News is certainly getting defensive. O’Lielly tried to spank Politico but got spanked instead.

Azarkhan – did you mean to post this comment on another thread? Perhaps one where it might be pertinent to the topic? Maybe on a Stormfront blog?

It absolutely defies any inkling of common sense to deny that the main stream media treats the entire tea party movement as a joke and bunch of loons. ALL TV and print treat them in a condescending tone, it’s obvious as hell to anyone who isn’t already a “nose in the air” progressive.

Just admit it and move on. The rest of us know you all think you’re better than they are (and all of us for that matter) so just be intellectually honest enough to admit it, you think you’re better.

Azarkhan – this is off topic and offensive. One more comment like it and you will be banned.

The converse is likely true. FOX is over-reporting the Palin and (White) Tea Partier tidbits. And, in doing so, FOX is walking a very dangerous line. Hume and Sammons, along with their toady, Kampain Karl, are deeply, deeply compromised in this. FOX has all but sponsored the (White) Tea Partiers, and as the “movement” has fractured and splintered, FOX has an almost desperate interest in keeping it alive. It seems to me that the media as a whole has given the “movement” its due, perhaps more than its due. By contrast to FOX’s shameless promotion, it may seem less than so, have another Sue Graftonesque pulp explosion here. Nothing new to report, no news to report. More of the same.

Skewered, Azz? By you? You demonstrate your lack of vocabulary. Are you really Glenn Beck?

timzank says:
“It absolutely defies any inkling of common sense to deny that the main stream media treats the entire tea party movement as a joke and bunch of loons.”

Maybe it is because they are a joke and bunch of loons. The whole premise of the Tea Party is that taxes are too high, yet taxes in this country are at a 70 year low.

My opinion of Politico really took a nosedive after hearing VandeHei. His comments were the most intellectually dishonest spin I have heard on TV in recent memory.

He should realize that we have watched the media pundits and anchors cover the tea parties, and can hear the WORDS COMING OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS. How many examples do we need to cite? Anderson Cooper calling the participants by some gutter term? The CNN reporter who started shouting at the tea party attendees? The endless insults by Maddow and Olbermann, night after night? How about Chris Matthews’s many slurs? And then there’s Liz Robbins, in the New York Times, covering the tea parties as an exercise in white anger and group therapy? How about the hit piece on “teabaggers ruining the Republican Party” on PBS? What about David Shuster’s attacks on the tea parties? Should I add Suzanne Malveaux’s slurs on CNN? And what about Daniel Gross of Newsweek? I could give a hundred more examples, and maybe a thousand….

In short, Mr. VandeHei, don’t insult our intelligence. You are either a stooge or a liar, and perhaps both.

I could care less was Bill Sammons has to say about the mainstream media. He was a right wing hack, author, and commentator before he was the managing editor of the “fair and balanced” network. Here are some of the titles of his books that demonstrate his objectivity:

* The Evangelical President: George Bush’s Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World
* At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election
* Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media.
* Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism from Inside the White House
* Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, Media Bias and the Bush Haters

P.S.
Azarkhan.

The comma after “I apologize” is a comma splice since you used it between two complete sentences.

Now go back to school you stupid s***.

I’m sorry, how is it “opinion” if you can back if up with facts? The media’s loathing of the tea parties is not hiddent well. Bill was right on and the media knows it. They just hate it when Fox brings it up because people have voted them and the most trustworthy.

FelixW is 100% correct.

Same2U: While I think moderates, progressives and liberals could tidy up their own houses of some messy media sorts, like Olbermann, the rights have a full blown Spring cleaning to do. Sammons, as you suggest, is nothing but a cheap tool and hack. Fund is a serial liar and needs to resign from the human race. Hume, Kampain Karl Kameron and Van Susteren are deeply compromised and conflicted. They really need to recuse themselves from much of what they cover. Gingrich and Morris are self-promoting degenerates. Beck is a cheap huckster. I’d keep Beck because he’s valuable as a safety valve for the easily excitable. The rest all ought to join the cast of a Mexican soap opera.

Hi same2u,

Wow, you are sooooooo intelligent. I bet you teach high school! Anyway, I’d like to learn from you. Come on over, pumpkin. I’ve got lotion!

Royal, I’ve seen blacks and other races represented in the tea party crowds. MSNBC just takes care not to show them.

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February 9, 2010 at 12:34 pm

Royal, I’ve seen blacks and other races represented in the tea party crowds. MSNBC just takes care not to show them.

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You’re correct. Blacks are represented. By racist signs all over the place!

Yes. Protesting high taxes is strictly a “white thing”.

I am not as convinced as you that the (White) Tea Partiers are all that concerned about taxes. It makes a great catch phrase, but it seems to me they are largely about bashing an African American president.

“There is nothing worse than a self-loathing southerner”-Laura Ingraham referring to Jimmy Carter. But of course, as we can see, he is not the only one.

Advice to the Left. When you defend the impartiality of the media and attack conservatives int he same post, you have just blown your cover. This is reminiscent of the demonstrations to assert that Alger Hiss was not a communist that were organized by … the U.S. Communist Party. Sort of defeats the purpose, ne c’est pas?

TRRK, these folks may take issue with your “white” tea party remarks

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://afrocityblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/tea-party-frances-rice-web.jpg&imgrefurl=http://afrocityblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/black-tea-parties/&usg=__V4KxCXfGgpPWrwXMEE38w4KRR0o=&h=310&w=448&sz=43&hl=en&start=4&sig2=m-JJHHac_E5I6JeAkX_hUw&itbs=1&tbnid=rW4w2lQYBYfNKM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtea%2Bparty%2Bblack%2Bpeople%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG&ei=n7ZxS9mvOJ6KnAeVzpSdCw

Or would they be “Toms” in your book?

Here’s a tip TRRK….go to google images, type in “tea party black people” and take a look. With your eyes open for a change!

Check this out – you knew this would be arocky mariage: “I don’t see stories about the internal operations of the DNC that I see about this operation,” (Michael) Steele said. “Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?”

Since Michael Steele is black, anyone disagreeing with him is a racist.

VandeHei took it upon himself to be the apologist for the mainstream media. I don’t know why exactly, as that is a thankless job. Furthermore, he was wrong on the facts, and if someone is going to start an argument with Bill Sammon then he’d better have the facts.