{"id":361670,"date":"2010-02-25T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77643"},"modified":"2010-02-25T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:15:00","slug":"olbermann-vs-the-tea-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361670","title":{"rendered":"Olbermann vs. the Tea Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Calderone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/michaelcalderone\/0210\/Olbermann_swings_back_at_Mediaite_and_Abrams.html\">recaps<\/a> an amusing spat between MSNBC&#8217;s Keith Olbermann and Mediaite.com, after the gossipy website ran an item about the Dallas Tea Party&#8217;s video knocking MSNBC for its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/michaelcalderone\/0210\/Olbermann_responds_to_tea_party_group.html?showall\">all-white line-up <\/a>of hosts. The headline is Olbermann&#8217;s\u00a0 criticism of Dan Abrams; the part that interests me is just how much attention the Dallas Tea Party &#8212; one of the more media-savvy local groups in the movement &#8212; got for a simple and apples-and-oranges video. I think the Atlantic&#8217;s John Hudson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/features\/view\/feature\/Right-Wing--White-People-808\">offered the strangest take<\/a> on the video:<span id=\"more-77643\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>However often the left makes the charge, the right is quick to rebut that the Democratic leadership&#8211;let alone <a href=\"http:\/\/atlanticwire.theatlantic.com\/opinions\/view\/opinion\/Will-Michelle-Malkin-Call-Out-Keith-Olbermann-2595\">the MSNBC line-up<\/a>&#8211;are hardly bastions of racial diversity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you&#8217;ve forgotten, the Democratic Party is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\">led by this guy<\/a>. I don&#8217;t think it matters, but suggesting that the Tea Party movement is not, like the Republican Party, less racially diverse than America as a whole, should really not be controversial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Calderone recaps an amusing spat between MSNBC&#8217;s Keith Olbermann and Mediaite.com, after the gossipy website ran an item about the Dallas Tea Party&#8217;s video knocking MSNBC for its all-white line-up of hosts. The headline is Olbermann&#8217;s\u00a0 criticism of Dan Abrams; the part that interests me is just how much attention the Dallas Tea Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}