TPM Gets A Hold Of CNBC Emails: Are They Asking Teabaggers To Disrupt Townhalls?

[BlooInBloo]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/email_tea_baggers_hoping_for_riot_at_rep_scotts_to.php?ref=fpblg

"Leaked Email: CNBC Went To Tea Partiers Looking for Angry Protests
By Zachary Roth - August 12, 2009, 12:21PM

CNBC approached Tea Party activists, looking for angry protest events that would make good television, according to a leaked email from a Tea Party discussion group. And one Tea Bagger responded by flagging an upcoming event that, he said, "should be a riot ... literally."

Yesterday, Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin sent an email, obtained by TPMmuckraker, to a Tea Party google group. Martin told the group: "We have a media request for an event this week that will have lots of energy and lots of anger. This is for CNBC."

She then asked: "So, where are the big events this week and where can TPP best be represented on the news?"

Later that day, a Tea Bagger named Pat Wayman responded with a suggestion, also obtained by TPMmuckraker: "This one should be a riot! literally...." he wrote."

[WCGreen]

1. Wonderful....

There ratings are in the tank since the Stock Market stabiklized...

[Teaser]

2. they have gone mad.

.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Wow - what a pack of Republicon Homelander stooges CNBC is

...if anyone had doubts. Freakin anti-American propaganda puppets, stirring up shit...

[redqueen]

4. What more do we need before people stop watching the BS?

Ugh... shameless, useless... I don't know why anyone watches that crap.

[babylonsister]

5. "that would make good television"...how low can they go? But

all the newz channels are doing it whether they get busted by e-mails or not.

[still_one]

6. Brought to you by the network that sucked you into the stock market bubble /nt

[spiritual_gunfighter]

7. Contessa Brewer was just on MSNBC

mocking Robert Gibbs' comment about how the media was disappointed that Obama's townhall wasn't combative. She said in a mocking tone "I am in the media and I don't want there to be problems at the town halls". Then I read this five minutes later. Very interesting.

[DrDan]

9. but . . . doesn't she work for MSNBC?

not CNBC.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

13. yeah she does

but when she said it I thought it was curious that she is claiming that the media doesn't want the townhalls to be combative. This is just evidence that the media are encouraging this sort of thing.

[DrDan]

17. I certainly don't disagree with that - MSNBC covered the video portion of

Specter's townhall yesterday and continued their network discussion. I am sure they were just monitoring for an outbreak of violence before fully cutting over to the townhall.

[AngryOldDem]

8. Wasn't Rick Santelli one of the original Tea Baggers?

Remember his rant on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade?

How frigging blind do people have to be NOT to see a concerted effort here on the part of some media and corporate interests to literally take over this nation, using their stooge followers as the shock troops?

I've never seen such orchestrated hate as I have in the past few weeks (and months).

[BlooInBloo]

10. Indeed.

[Gold Metal Flake]

11. That crazy Liberal Media.

They are so liberal in their shilling for the radical right wing.

[C_U_L8R]

12. When news became ruled by ratings

it started to become entertainment
and it was only a matter of time before
they started creating their own original
"programming". Shameful.

[Doctor_J]

14. It's probably too much to ask that Keith fire on the reactionary side of *NBC

and no one else will dare.

[Critters2]

15. If Faux or CNN did this, KO would be all over it.

I don't expect a peep about this, tho.

Liberal media my ass!

[Blue For You]

16. How is "I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK" good television?

That about sums up all these silly TownTeabaggerHall events. They think the media is going to undo the last election for them. Sounds like CNBC has gone totally Jerry Springer.

[BlooInBloo]

18. That's what journalists are today: just gossips, a la Mean Girls.

[mod mom]

19. Wonder if KO or Rachel will cover this!