CNN out-Foxes the competition

[KamaAina]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/cnn-tea-party-partnership-odd-best-unethical-worst-165205711.html

Handicapping how presidential candidates perform in debates is a tricky proposition. But in this case, the pundits agree: The co-hosts of Monday night's Republican debate--CNN and the Tea Party Express--made for "one of the oddest political matches in recent memory," "strange political bedfellows" not unlike "James Carville and Mary Matalin."...

"After the 2010 elections, it was undeniable that the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party was a force, and that it was likely to help determine the outcome of the nomination," Sam Feist, CNN's Washington bureau chief, told the New York Times. "We decided that it makes sense for one of the debates to have a Tea Party connection, and that we were the right network to do it."...

A major cable network is teaming up with a political splinter group as an (apparent) equal partner in a televised event. CNN didn't team up with political progressives, who helped shape the 2008 presidential campaign, during that election cycle. Yet here it is proudly teaming up with the Tea Partiers (who, they keep telling us, aren't even an identifiable group, but a shared mindset). My guess is CNN is more interested in wresting viewers from Fox than in maintaining its own credibility....

"The idea of a cable news network so reviled by the far political right coming together with its fiercest critics to host anything is completely ludicrous," Grace Wyler wrote on Business Insider. "Instead of remaking itself into a network of noble, cooperative centrists, CNN just looked like a sell-out, pandering to Tea Partiers and Tea Party haters in one fell swoop."

:wtf:

[Vincardog]

1. CNN just looked like a sell-out, pandering to Tea Partiers

[Whisp]

2. they 'made' the tea partiers.

right out of the gate, they were pumping that group up.

[fascisthunter]

3. The Bias is Terribly Obvious... CNN has a corporate Interest, and the Fascist Tea Party

is a perfect vehicle for that agenda... thanks to the republican party, we now have many more sociopaths an election away from putting more Americans into misery.