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It is genuinely remarkable and kind of a problem that the Times reporter who's taken up the conservative movement beat still treats it as a foregone conclusion that the Tea Party was a popular uprising against deficits.
Speaking of embarrassing nonsense from The Gray Lady.
Obviously this is not a first amendment issue, and obviously if the Aryan Brotherhood started a news site and hired a political correspondent, reporters would not be dogging a Dem presidential candidate for ejecting that person from an HBCU event.
Press freedom obligates no one to credential interlopers who seek to destroy the free press to cover campaign events.
What's happened is Trump has menaced the press, kicked disfavored reporters out of events, and even fucked with the White House credentialing process, so reporters have to be caught proving they oppose these tactics when Dems use them. But Breitbart is not the same as CNN.
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"As Mr. Obama's allies saw the movement."
What if–what if!–the issues that animated the tea party aren't a he said/she said matter but conclusively studied?
Well then the premise of the piece collapses as does a key tentpole of the Times's approach to covering contemporary politics.
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