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Tea Party Groups Say Media Have Been Fair, Survey Finds
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Washington Post (DC) |
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010 |
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Amy Gardner |
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PostPolitics-Election 2010 (A) |
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"The media has done a miserable job in challenging the tea party, and more broadly the Republican Party, on their underlying critique against us on spending and government expansion," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse.
"The tea party has been held out as principled anger at government overreach and spending, but it's anything but principled. If it were, where were they on the unpaid tax cuts, wars and the Medicare drug benefit of the Bush era, much less the bank bailouts, which were passed and signed by Bush?
"The media has given this hypocrisy a pass, has failed to correct the record, and I've even seen instances where legitimate news outlets have attributed TARP to this administration instead of the Bush administration."
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