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Dick Armey: Avoid 'tea party' label, MSNBC
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 16, 2010 04:24pm |
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| Author | KENNETH P. VOGEL |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 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.
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. |
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