Barney Frank 1 Paul Ryan/GOP -100

One thing I like about how Barney Frank PWNS his Republican colleagues is that many times he simply asks them tough questions that the media refuses to hit them with. In this video GOP Congressman Paul Ryan is on a roll talking about how gung ho the Republicans are about health care reform. All it takes is one question from Congressman Frank and it all goes up in smoke.

CNBC Goes Looking For Trouble

Its bad enough that CNBC is peddling bullshit financial commentary, but now they are trying to frame the news on townhalls to portray health care reform as unpopular.

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?"

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Late Update: Martin tells TPMmuckraker that she did not forward the Scott event -- or, in fact, any event -- on to CNBC as a candidate for coverage. She stressed that her group "does not endorse anything that incites violence of any kind," adding that the email list is un-moderated. "I can't moderate every single comment," she said.

Asked whether CNBC had specifically told her they were looking for an event with "lots of energy and lots of anger," Martin replied: "That was the impression that I received from them." She declined to elaborate.

Now lets see if the media will call out these cretins or if they will cover for them each other as usual. Major props to TPM for breaking the story!

Gag Order

No wonder why we haven't heard anything of substance about Stewart Vs Cramer on NBC or any of it's affiliated station cable stations today.

Robert Gibbs On Stewart Vs Kramer: "I Enoyed It Throughly"

You gotta love Gibby!

More Jon Stewart

Has there ever been another comedian who was more informative or made more sense?