Dick Armey to Tea People: Shhhhh... Don't Tell

[Paulie]

Doesn't Armey have a book called the Tea Party Manifesto?

 

[HUGGY]

Army is a piece of shit.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

good to know he's the same disingenuous twit he's always been...

By KENNETH P. VOGEL
Back To Story Page »
Republican candidates popular with tea party activists should refrain from self-identifying as tea party candidates — and also should stay off MSNBC, Dick Armey said Wednesday.

The former House majority leader...

...

the best part is the loon is still whining that rachel maddow was mean to poor rand paul. the nerve of her asking him questions and not tossing softballs like faux news.

Dick, always a man of the people.

 

[Stephanie]

LOL, this thread is fuuuuuuuuny.

all the name calling put downs of people are so NORMAL..

vile nasty little liar
piece of shit
blaa blaa blaa

then they wonder why no one else has joined in.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

good to know he's the same disingenuous twit he's always been...

By KENNETH P. VOGEL
Back To Story Page »
Republican candidates popular with tea party activists should refrain from self-identifying as tea party candidates — and also should stay off MSNBC, Dick Armey said Wednesday.

The former House majority leader, who has emerged as a leading figure within the tea party movement as head of the nonprofit group FreedomWorks told reporters at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, that candidates who call themselves tea party leaders are opening themselves up for more negative scrutiny from hostile media outlets, and he singled out MSNBC as a leading antagonist of the tea party movement and its favored candidates.

“Any legitimate newsperson would be embarrassed to see them pretending to be newspeople,” he said of MSNBC. “They’re not news people. They’re political hacks,” he said, specifically citing the network’s liberal hosts Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann. “I’m sorry. I watch that network. I watch that Keith Olberby guy — cracks me up. I know very well he’s never gotten over the Americans beating the Russians in ’80. And he’s got this mean nasty side to him, and it’s entertaining, but don’t tell me he’s a newsperson. It’s a disrespect to the profession.”

Olbermann said Armey "is, as ever, perfectly, wonderfully tone deaf. I actually attended the USA upset of the USSR in Lake Placid in 1980 and it remains one of the most joyous memories of my life as a proud American. I also wonder about why Mr. Armey so happily took money to appear on my show during his days as a paid MSNBC contributor."

Armey’s criticism came after he was asked if he had any advice for tea party-backed candidates such as GOP Senate candidates Rand Paul of Kentucky, who took heat after stumbling under tough questioning from Maddow about whether he supports the Civil Rights Act, and Sharron Angle of Nevada, who has avoided taking questions from most mainstream media outlets.

“Rand Paul made an amateur mistake — a freshman mistake, a rookie mistake. He thought MSNBC was a legitimate news operation. Bless his heart,” Armey said. “If he had called me and said ‘should I go on that show?’ I would have said ‘no, they’re political hacks. They will abuse the truth purposefully for a political purpose.’”

Later, though, Armey said Paul’s “bigger mistake” came in his victory speech after securing the nomination, when he said “I have a message from the tea party. ... We've come to take our government back" and added: "This tea party movement is a message to Washington that we are unhappy and we want things done differently."

Armey said “I think that hurt him more than (the Civil Rights Act exchange), because the principles of liberty won that position and he won by adhering to them.” He quipped that Paul’s reasoning for positioning himself as a tea party leader might have been, “Alright, I don’t have a big enough target on my back. Since the left hates the tea party and they hate me, let’s see if we can get ‘em to double down on me by me claiming to be the leader of the tea party.”

“Don’t ask for more of what you really don’t want,” Armey said. Pointing out that Paul “ran as a Republican — he won the Republican primary,” Armey suggested that Paul and other tea party-backed candidates can remain true to the movement’s limited government principles without becoming targets by declaring themselves tea party leaders.

He recommended that tea party-backed candidates stick to local media outlets and Fox News, which is regarded as friendlier turf for conservatives.

“Fox News for many of us, we believe is more accurate and reliable than most news most of the time, and we are quite comfortable enjoy when we’ve given interviews there,” he said.

Still, he described a “a free, fair, professional press” as crucial to a functioning democracy and said “irrespective of the number of disappointments that you will have in the press — and you will have them, you must always be willing to take a chance on anybody who says ‘I am from the press and I am here to interview you,’ until you know for certain that this is one of the unreliable ones. You should all be thought to be reliable until proven otherwise.”

POLITICO Forumsolitics: Armey: Avoid 'tea party' label, MSNBC - POLITICO.com

the best part is the loon is still whining that rachel maddow was mean to poor rand paul. the nerve of her asking him questions and not tossing softballs like faux news.

The only thing Armey said that wasn't true was that Rand Paul declared himself a tea Party leader. I've never heard Rand say anything of the sort. As for the rest Armey was pretty much "spot on".

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Like when Chris Matthews was so mean to Michelle M.

malkin is a vile, nasty little liar... she should be called on everything that comes out of her nasty mouth.

your point?

oh wait... you don't have one.

Malkin is a liar? Care to give some examples there counselor?

 

[konradv]

LOL!!! These are the same people that will point out that many Dem candidates don't want to be seen with Obama, right? Seems the have their own skeletons. ENJOY!!!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Tea Party to Dick Armey: No! You shut the fuck up! You had your chance and you fucked us

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Tea Party to Dick Armey: No! You shut the fuck up! You had your chance and you fucked us

yeah right. The corrupt bug man is a leader in good standing

 

[Paulie]

 

[jillian]

Tea Party to Dick Armey: No! You shut the fuck up! You had your chance and you fucked us

yeah right. The corrupt bug man is a leader in good standing

yep... dick armey's freedomworks is the funding for the teabaggers.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Tea Party to Dick Armey: No! You shut the fuck up! You had your chance and you fucked us

yeah right. The corrupt bug man is a leader in good standing

yep... dick armey's freedomworks is the funding for the teabaggers.

he has more say that a hundred thousand Franks. he makes Frank look like a weiner

 

[Mr. Shaman]

This country has gone so far toward the left that we have to conduct "Operation Norman Thomas" in reverse, he said ""The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under
the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist
program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without
knowing how it happened."

We need to take one or two steps right each time and think ...


"The American people will never knowingly adopt Constitutionalism . But under
the name of ' "Conservatism"they will adopt every fragment of the libertarian/constitutional
program, until one day America will be a Constitutional Republic again , without
knowing how it happened."

That sounds an awful-lot like BUSHCO's reheating of that ol' Tried & True pro-War hustle!!

*

 

[Samson]

Armey is demonstrating the allignment of media sources with political dogma that begat with national television news broadcasts, begat radio conservative talk shows, which begat MSNBC, which begat FNC...

The media has gotten out of control, and finding unbias reporting of news is almost becomming impossible.

None of you could bear watching BBC America, because there you will not find commentary, talking heads ready to attack an oppositional POV, or wild ravings.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Like when Chris Matthews was so mean to Michelle M.

malkin is a vile, nasty little liar... she should be called on everything that comes out of her nasty mouth.

your point?

oh wait... you don't have one.

Malkin is a liar? Care to give some examples there counselor?

Well?

 

[Stephanie]

malkin is a vile, nasty little liar... she should be called on everything that comes out of her nasty mouth.

your point?

oh wait... you don't have one.

Malkin is a liar? Care to give some examples there counselor?

Well?

she "investigates" the Democrat-Progressives culture of CORRUPTION...that's all the PROOF they need.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Army is a piece of shit.

.....Who's always workin' on the NEXT hu$tle!!!!!

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

good to know he's the same disingenuous twit he's always been...

By KENNETH P. VOGEL
Back To Story Page »
Republican candidates popular with tea party activists should refrain from self-identifying as tea party candidates — and also should stay off MSNBC, Dick Armey said Wednesday.

The former House majority leader, who has emerged as a leading figure within the tea party movement as head of the nonprofit group FreedomWorks told reporters at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, that candidates who call themselves tea party leaders are opening themselves up for more negative scrutiny from hostile media outlets, and he singled out MSNBC as a leading antagonist of the tea party movement and its favored candidates.

“Any legitimate newsperson would be embarrassed to see them pretending to be newspeople,” he said of MSNBC. “They’re not news people. They’re political hacks,” he said, specifically citing the network’s liberal hosts Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann. “I’m sorry. I watch that network. I watch that Keith Olberby guy — cracks me up. I know very well he’s never gotten over the Americans beating the Russians in ’80. And he’s got this mean nasty side to him, and it’s entertaining, but don’t tell me he’s a newsperson. It’s a disrespect to the profession.”

Olbermann said Armey "is, as ever, perfectly, wonderfully tone deaf. I actually attended the USA upset of the USSR in Lake Placid in 1980 and it remains one of the most joyous memories of my life as a proud American. I also wonder about why Mr. Armey so happily took money to appear on my show during his days as a paid MSNBC contributor."

Armey’s criticism came after he was asked if he had any advice for tea party-backed candidates such as GOP Senate candidates Rand Paul of Kentucky, who took heat after stumbling under tough questioning from Maddow about whether he supports the Civil Rights Act, and Sharron Angle of Nevada, who has avoided taking questions from most mainstream media outlets.

“Rand Paul made an amateur mistake — a freshman mistake, a rookie mistake. He thought MSNBC was a legitimate news operation. Bless his heart,” Armey said. “If he had called me and said ‘should I go on that show?’ I would have said ‘no, they’re political hacks. They will abuse the truth purposefully for a political purpose.’”

Later, though, Armey said Paul’s “bigger mistake” came in his victory speech after securing the nomination, when he said “I have a message from the tea party. ... We've come to take our government back" and added: "This tea party movement is a message to Washington that we are unhappy and we want things done differently."

Armey said “I think that hurt him more than (the Civil Rights Act exchange), because the principles of liberty won that position and he won by adhering to them.” He quipped that Paul’s reasoning for positioning himself as a tea party leader might have been, “Alright, I don’t have a big enough target on my back. Since the left hates the tea party and they hate me, let’s see if we can get ‘em to double down on me by me claiming to be the leader of the tea party.”

“Don’t ask for more of what you really don’t want,” Armey said. Pointing out that Paul “ran as a Republican — he won the Republican primary,” Armey suggested that Paul and other tea party-backed candidates can remain true to the movement’s limited government principles without becoming targets by declaring themselves tea party leaders.

He recommended that tea party-backed candidates stick to local media outlets and Fox News, which is regarded as friendlier turf for conservatives.

“Fox News for many of us, we believe is more accurate and reliable than most news most of the time, and we are quite comfortable enjoy when we’ve given interviews there,” he said.

Still, he described a “a free, fair, professional press” as crucial to a functioning democracy and said “irrespective of the number of disappointments that you will have in the press — and you will have them, you must always be willing to take a chance on anybody who says ‘I am from the press and I am here to interview you,’ until you know for certain that this is one of the unreliable ones. You should all be thought to be reliable until proven otherwise.”

POLITICO Forumsolitics: Armey: Avoid 'tea party' label, MSNBC - POLITICO.com

the best part is the loon is still whining that rachel maddow was mean to poor rand paul. the nerve of her asking him questions and not tossing softballs like faux news.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Armey is demonstrating the allignment of media sources with political dogma that begat with national television news broadcasts, begat radio conservative talk shows, which begat MSNBC, which begat FNC...

The media has gotten out of control, and finding unbias reporting of news is almost becomming impossible.

None of you could bear watching BBC America, because there you will not find commentary, talking heads ready to attack an oppositional POV, or wild ravings.

the allignment of media sources with political dogma that begat with national television news broadcasts?

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Malkin is a liar? Care to give some examples there counselor?

Well?

she "investigates" the Democrat-Progressives culture of CORRUPTION...that's all the PROOF they need.

I've noticed that the left wing idiots are quick to paint a conservative a liar but when challenged they run and hide.