Video: Mika Brzezinski pretty darned angry about Gingrich's OWS-baiting

Via News Busters, which notes a history of bad blood here. Even so, getting this upset about a bit of paint-by-numbers hippie-punching by, of all people, Newt Gingrich? As a dig at progressive demonstrators, “take a bath and get a job” was already stale circa 1970; it’s such a rote base pander that it’s hard to take completely seriously, yet here’s Mika seemingly in need of a therapist to help her cope. I used to get annoyed at Alan Grayson’s conservative-bashing but there comes a point where the schtick factor is so high that taking the bait leaves you feeling like a chump. Resist the bait, Mika.

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The worst part of this, of course, is Brzezinski casually equating Gingrich’s dig at OWS protesters with an insult to “the 99 percent.” (“He’s telling the 99% to take a bath and get a job?”) Apparently we’re all part of the movement now, such that criticizing our noble representatives is tantamount to criticizing the population at large. Did I miss an election?

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