Club for Growth http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/19790/all en Piers Morgan Encourages Arlen Specter to Take Out Some Tea Party 'Cannibals' http://archive2.mrc.org/biasalerts/piers-morgan-encourages-arlen-specter-take-out-some-tea-party-cannibals <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/matt-hadro">Matt Hadro</a> </div> </div> </div> <p> <img src="/sites/default/files/uploads/2012-03-27-CNN-Morgan-Specter%20tres.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 3px;" />As former Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) railed against political extremists whom he termed "cannibals," CNN's Piers Morgan actually encouraged him to "start taking a few of them out for us" and "Bury a few more bodies." Specter had specifically referenced the Tea Party and the Club for Growth as "cannibals" he wrote about in his new book "Life Among the Cannibals" and repeatedly took shots at the conservative wing of the Republican Party, on Tuesday's Piers Mo</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/biasalerts/piers-morgan-encourages-arlen-specter-take-out-some-tea-party-cannibals" target="_blank">read more</a></p> BiasAlerts News Analysis Division Arlen Specter Club for Growth CNN Piers Morgan Tea Party Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:49:44 +0000 matt.hadro 39701 at http://archive2.mrc.org Steinhauer Plays "Gotcha" With "Conservative Orthodoxy" of Club for Growth Activists http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/steinhauer-plays-gotcha-conservative-orthodoxy-club-growth-activists <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer played “gotcha” with the free-market group Club for Growth on Friday while faulting it for harmful "conservative fiscal orthodoxy," in “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/us/politics/chris-chocola-of-club-for-growth-was-less-fiscally-conservative-in-congress.html?ref=politics">A Conservative Leader Was Less So in Congress</a>.”<img src="http://www.mrc.org/sites/default/files/images/Jennifer_Steinhauer_expanded.jpg.crop_display.jpg" style="float: right;" height="155" width="282" /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/steinhauer-plays-gotcha-conservative-orthodoxy-club-growth-activists" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Club for Growth Jennifer Steinhauer Labeling Bias Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:55:13 +0000 clay.waters 39313 at http://archive2.mrc.org