http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/24117/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/biasalerts/pbss-ifill-can-gop-be-viable-when-tea-party-party-opposition <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/paul-bremmer">Paul Bremmer</a> </div> </div> </div> <p> On Thursday’s <em>PBS NewsHour</em>, anchor Gwen Ifill fed the tired old stereotype that the Tea Party ruins everything. [Listen to MP3 audio <a href="http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2013/2014-01-30-PBS-NH-TeaParty.mp3">here</a>.]<br /> <br /> During a discussion about the nation’s political outlook for the coming year, Ifill posed this question to The Washington Post’s Michael Gerson:</p> <p align="center"><iframe src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/125262" width="520" height="293" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p align="center">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/biasalerts/pbss-ifill-can-gop-be-viable-when-tea-party-party-opposition" target="_blank">read more</a></p> BiasAlerts News Analysis Division congress Conservatives and Republicans Gwen Ifill Michael Gerson Mike Lee Paul Broun PBS NewsHour Tea Parties Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:58:03 +0000 paul.bremmer 45444 at http://archive2.mrc.org