Almost under the radar, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been breaking an incredible news story this week. According to her report (below) CNN has been working with Sal Russo (a GOP consultant from the firm Russo Marsh & Rogers) to create phony political events under the umbrella of the "Tea Party Movement". First was the placement of "embedded" CNN reporters on Russo's made-up "Tea Party Express" bus tour (giving credibility to the bus tour and Fox-like publicity to CNN). Coming up (in the near future) will be a "first-of-its-kind Tea Party presidential primary debate" jointly hosted by CNN.
But what broke the story was the Michelle Bachmann–delivered "Tea Party movement official response" to Obama's state-of-the-union speech. Why was it "official"? Because CNN, who appear to have helped create it, said it was. The speech by wingnut Michelle Bachmann was covered by NO ONE in the news media (as a valid political event) except for CNN-- which had Wolf Blitzer breathless hyping the "event" all during its Tuesday night coverage. CNN commentators and pundits refused to fall for the bullshit-- but each time they called out CNN for its coverage of the phony "response", Wolf changed the subject and segued into a quickie promo of the speech.
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