MSNBC's Keith Olbermann piled on last night, using the words of Sen. Tom Coburn, useful idiot:
They are two inescapable tenets of the modern Republican party, Nancy Pelosi devil, Fox News God. In our number one story, Republican Senator Tom Coburn bucked his party`s talking points and leveled with the crowd at an Oklahoma City town hall meeting last week. According to Coburn, Nancy Pelosi is nice, and Fox News can be biased, and uses its own set of facts. And one conservative columnist says Republicans thought Fox worked for them, but have discovered, to their horror, that they work for fox.
First, the Coburn town hall event was held on March 31. The website Capitol News Connection uncovered the relevant audio clips, which happen to have been recorded by an Oklahoma NPR station. During the hour long meeting with Coburn, a woman complained to the senator about the unconstitutionality, in her opinion, of the new health care reform laws. The woman was worried she would go to jail for not buying health care insurance.
Coburn was put in the position of defending the health care bill he voted against because of the Fox News misinformation campaign.
