Last night as I was flipping channels between the Dolphins on ESPN and the “nuts” on CNN, my wife walked through and asked a perfectly innocent question. She’s a solid democrat—always votes straight ticket and sends Obama $20.00-per-month because she likes him. She’ll canvass a little next year and might even volunteer at a call center if she can convince one of her girl-friends to end the evening at Red Lobster.
While she’s modestly politically active, she’s not "political" and would never waste time on Kos or other places dissecting the intricacies of public policy. Politics for her is a social outlet to be enjoyed with trendy friends--void of passion and laced with fun.
So when she said:
“Huh--the republicans are having another debate already?”
I said “yeah that’s the tea party debate.”
She said, “a tea party debate?"
"Why?”
So I started explaining how CNN had hired all of these tea party activists to overload their panels with right-wing ideology. The conversation was getting so interesting as she argued how unfair it was for a news outlet to single-out one political group to give them an entire night to spread their propaganda.
I argued that Fox was a key player in creating, organizing and promoting the tea party but they don’t have to do anything more because CNN is trying to take their place. They have a group of imbedded tea party reporters, have hired their worst flame-throwers and has now given them a free, two-hour infomercial.
I just can’t wait to see CNN’s "progressive" debate where the “other Americans” can ask questions. Okay, that’s not happening. How about them simply adding two progressives to their debate panels to balance the tea party loons? Naahh, John King would never stand for that.
This is foul...people--seriously.
Oh and back to my wife; I bet she's political now because she was pissed about CNN teaming up with the tea party to slam "her" president.
And, she never was satisfied with my answers as to why CNN had a “tea party” debate in the first place.