Video: Dylan Ratigan with Cenk Uygur -- Oct. 6, 2010
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By Dr. Pitchfork
First off, I think the Tea Party movement is great. On a certain level, I don't give a crap what they're angry about. And I honestly don't care if they're motoring into town hall on their electric Medicare-mobile to bitch about their Social Security check or about Obama's missing birth certificate. I really don't. I'm just glad they're out there. And I'm glad they're angry.
But the putative leaders of the Tea Party -- fake, big-government "conservatives" like Glenn Beck and Michelle Bachmann -- they're pretty much full of it, and I'd be pleased as punch if the tea party-ers decided to throw them overboard. In this clip, Cenk Uygur and Dylan Ratigan proceed to rip the Tea Party hypocrites for accepting tons of government subsidies -- for themselves.
For example, Cenk points out the obvious hypocrisy of someone like Michelle Bachmann, who took in around $250,000 in Federal farm subsidies over the last few years. But the biggest failing of the Tea Party leadership (and maybe this isn't a bug, but a feature), is their utter failure to take on the bailouts and the TBTF banks. Not the Tea Party rank and file, necessarily, but the national leadership (such as it is) and the politicians who want to use the Tea Party for their own purposes.
Why hasn't Glenn Beck had his followers march on the Federal Reserve building, or the U.S. Treasury? Why isn't Geithner as hated as Nancy Pelosi? Cenk says he would have been the Tea Party's "biggest fan" if they had taken on Geithner and Obama over the bank bailouts (5:00). There's still time for that, but for now, watch the clip.
WARNING: Cenk uses the F-word* (the 5-letter one)
*FRAUD!
Cenk hates Goldman, as he should: