This is going to be a shorter diary, something I saw this morning on MSNBC that made me furious. For a long time I've detested Contessa Brewer, and today she earned my disgust once again.
FUD is the idea that if you don't have any substance to your position, well that doesn't matter, as long as you can muddy the water so no one can tell the truth.
This morning, I saw a national news anchor (not on Fox News) put up a map from Freedom Works while blithely sputtering non-sense about how this is not a right-wing movement, and many centrist common-sense people will be joining in the tea bagging today.
I always try to hold the so-called "Mainstream Media" to a very low bar, in fact to get to Fox News' bar you need to dig down a few feet, but this was beyond the pale. Contessa "I'll confer to Pat Buchanan for any opinion needed" Brewer then had Chuck Todd come on to discuss the Teabagging. To Mr. Todd's credit he did point out that this was a movement funded and promoted heavily by Conservatives and is being used as a tool by the Republican Party. Sadly, these statements were met with a let's wait and see if we can fool enough viewers into believing this is an actual grassroots movement response from Ms. Brewer.
I hope someone can find a video of this obvious deception.