MSNBC's Joe slams Unions as Tea Party equals

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Shamey Award Nominee for "Bizarro Bias" -- Joe Scarborough, host of the "Morning Joe" team, slandered Wisconsin union supporters by lowering them to a false equivalence with the Tea Party. Conservatives appear to be in the middle of Tea Party revisionist history with the goal to make the Tea Party seem less racist, extreme, mean and more mainstream. You can hear it in the right-wing echo chamber as well as an all out assault on union supporters in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Fortunately, there is plenty of evidence to disprove the Republican falsehoods.

There is no equal to the unrelenting defamation of President Obama, Democrats, liberals and progressives by Republicans, conservatives and the Tea Party. Collectively they call Obama everything from an un-American communist to a Kenyan-born witch doctor, and Republicans hate their Democratic opposition so much they often demean them with the improper name, "Democrat (sic) Party." Bush never suffered such indignities -- metrics prove it -- and have you ever once heard a Democrat label a Republican as a "Republan?"

Script: Well, looks like Tea Party revisionism is well under way -- Don't buy it!
The Tea Party is filled with shocking and numerous examples of hate and racism not covered by mainstream American journalists.
Victoria Jackson is featured here -- on tour -- with the Tea Party Express in March and April of 2010 -- a full year into the Tea Party movement.
The Tea Party crowd just loves her -- especially the part about the president being a communist living in the White House.
Listen as the crowd roars and sings along -- And don't be fooled by claims that only a few bad apples are in the Tea Party. And definitely shame the journalists who try to mislead you.

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[DontRepYourCity]

This debunks the theory of MSNBC being a so-called liberal channel. They give Joe Scum 3 hours of airtime, yet everyone else only gets 1 hour.

[DanMonDab]

Shamey, you have got to be kidding.

[GaryVolts]

End public employee unions and the conflict of interest they represent.

[YesWeCantaloupe]

Hate-speech is a strong word. Bush was called Hitler and so was Gov. Walker. I consider that far stronger than calling Obama a communist. I think it's inaccurate to call the President a communist since he's in bed with big pharma, and big auto, which is why I call him a fascist.

[MemeWeek]

@ace8842 "4" times as many Hitler signs at union rallies? You're not suppose to count while watching Fox News in a loop.

[MemeWeek]

@YesWeCantaloupe Nothing all that controversial? Right-Wing hate speech isn't controversial in your cave?

[YesWeCantaloupe]

Well Obama has lied about virtually everything he campaigned on, he implements laws in the way a dictator would, and the laws themselves are parallel with communism. Nothing all that controversial actually.

BTW please unclog your nose.

[ace8842]

This is the biggest double standard I've ever seen. There were at least 4 times as many crude, disgusting, Hitler signs at union rallies than there were at Tea Party rallies...wasn't even close.  Yet, the mainstream media picks out 1 sign at a Tea Party rally out of 10,000 and plays it over and over. Obama is a socialist/communists in many people's minds if you look at who he associated himself with before being President.