Corporate media's willful ignorance is absolutely stunning.

[chieftain]

I just watched Mathews let some shill from the WSJ rave on and on about how the tea party movement is a genuine grass roots phenomenon that has grown without organized involvement. Had Chris spent a half an hour reading Hullabaloo or other sites, he would have had the smoking gun showing the massive astroturfing campaign that is going on right under his nose. Maybe Mathews is well aware of the RW groups that are funding this and is complicit in the lie, but I doubt it. I think he is a prime example of the corporate media's arrogance.They don't believe they can learn anything from the blogosphere so they are content to remain in their insider cocoon oblivious to the excellent citizen reporting that shames them.

[ErinBerin84]

1. heh

I turned on Lou Dobbs and the heading was something like "Tax (something) backlash", covering the tea parties. Grass roots my ass. Are these about the bailouts, higher taxes for the rich, or spending? Oh, and Steven Moore, I'm suuuuure these are very "non partisan" and that they would have done the "same thing" under Bush, even though they didn't.

[alsame]

2. I would bet that most of the crowds will be the same people

who were at the McCain/Palin hatefests.

[RepublicanElephant]

6. or the goon squad that stopped the florida recount in 2000. nt

[chieftain]

7. Many of whom were GOP Congressional staffers.

One of the on-site organizers was the RW shill who shows up on MSNBC all the time, Blakeman or something like that.

[orwell]

3. The Teabaggers...

...the "Tax Revolt" by people who just had their taxes lowered.

That just about says it all...

[polichick]

4. I was just thinking that very thing - thanks for posting!

[csziggy]

5. Where are all the people who are going to have their taxes revert to pre-Bush levels

Because Bush (probably deliberately) did not make his tax cuts for the richest 2% permanent? Those are the people out there protesting, if anyone does!

When I see the protesters wearing designer clothes and the parking lots full of Mercedes and Bentleys at the protest sites, I will take the "Teabaggers" seriously. Until then, I will just think about what "teabagging" really means and laugh at the idiots who are allowing themselves to be used.

[LooseWilly]

8. I was only half listening

... but I got the impression that that idiot was trying to say that the tea party thing was some sort of "popular" outrage that the Republicans were "trying to get in front of"... a framing that it would've been hard for Matthews to attack, though he did look like he was on the verge of rolling his eyes.
The earlier clips where he was pointing out that Warren is a hypocrite was more surprising to me... that he let that Politico goof, Mike Allen, get away with apologizing for Warren's being a blatantly lying hypocrite piece of pious shit...