Boycott MSNBC's Advertisers Say Tea Party Leaders

Newsbusters.org posted last night that tea party leaders, enraged over Chris Matthews' outrageously slanderous and biased report on the Tea Party that aired Wednesday night, have called for a boycott of MSNBCs sponsors Dawn and its parent company Proctor and Gamble.  This from Alana Goodman of Newsbusters (emphasis added):

Tea Partiers Boycott MSNBC Advertisers Over ‘Slanderous’ Documentary

Some Tea Party leaders are calling for conservatives to boycott MSNBC's advertisers, after the network ran a documentary on June 16 that they say unfairly slandered the movement.

Two of the Tea Party leaders interviewed in the Chris Matthews-narrated documentary are asking supporters to write, call and fax the offices of Dawn and its parent company Proctor and Gamble and request that they cease giving advertising dollars to Matthews' "Hardball" program on MSNBC. FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey and Kitchen Table Patriots member Ana Puig jointly called the documentary a "propaganda piece" and urged Tea Party groups around the country to boycott Dawn products.

"The program ‘Rise of the New Right' was low-ball journalism at its worst," said the Kitchen Table Patriots in a statement released today. "Chris Matthews and his Hardball program slandered the Tea Party movement, and misled the American people by distorting facts about the Tea Party movement, its motivations and its history." (Videos at the bottom of post.)

Go here to read the rest of Goodman's article and see clips of the Matthews' report.

Lachlan Markay does a great job of whittling Matthews' baseless claims to nothing (emphasis added):

Chris Matthews Crams Year's Worth of Anti-Tea Party Cliches into One Hour Special

What do Tea Partiers, Truthers, birthers, Birchers, militias, Pat Buchanan, Jerry Falwell, Barry Goldwater, Joe McCarthy, Father Coughlin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Ronald Reagan, Strom Thurmond, Rand Paul, Alex Jones, Orly Taitz, and Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh all have in common? Approximately nothing, but don't tell Chris Matthews.

The MSNBC "Hardball" host spent the better part of an hour last night trying to associate all of these characters with one other. Of course he did not provide a shred of evidence beyond, ironically, a McCarthyite notion that all favor smaller government, and are therefore in league, whether they know it or not, to overthrow the government. Together, by Matthews's account, they comprise or have given rise to the "New Right."

The special was less a history of the Tea Party movement than a history of leftist distortions of the Tea Party movement. As such, it tried -- without offering any evidence, mind you -- to paint the movement as potentially violent. Hence, after Matthews tried his hardest to link all of these characters, he went on to paint them all as supporting, inciting, or actually committing violence. (Videos embedded at the end of post.)

And the Left loves to claim that FoxNews is biased?!?  

Coincidentally, yesterday I read on GatewayPundit that Playboy has published a much more balanced article on the Tea Party movement -- "Rogues of K Street: Confessions of a Tea Party Consultant."  Jim Hoft of GatewayPundit evaluates the article thusly:

This is actually a fair piece on the tea party movement and on the many movers and shakers in the national tea party scene. There’s quite a bit of focus on Team Tea in St. Louis led by Hennessy, Loudon, Loesch, Hoft, Moore, (Sharp, Darin, Jim, Jon, John, Stephanie, Fred, etc.).  

Not that I like Playboy ... scumbags ... but, maybe if Playboy basically says that the Tea Party is sexy and cool, maybe that might cause the MSM to open their eyes and actually give the movement a fair shot in their reports.  (Here's the link to the Playboy article.)

Perhaps Tea Partiers might one day cause chills to run up Matthews' leg.

I ain't holdin' my breath ...