Opinion

Here are some of the liberal media's more outrageous, biased quotes last week about the tea-party movement, courtesy of the Media Research Center:

Media's own bigotry: "By now, there should be no disputing the racist and Nazi elements that signify the tea-baggers, but the wing-nuts still try to dress up their bigotry as public policy."

-- MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan on "The Dylan Ratigan Show."

Drop that broomstick!: Co-host Meredith Vieira: "Now Sen. DeMint, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was walking into the Capitol, I noticed one of the tea party protesters was brandishing a broom in her direction. Was he calling the speaker a witch? And by ..."

Sen. Jim DeMint: "Oh, c'mon Meredith. I saw that protester, too. He was chanting 'Sweep the bums out!'"

Vieira: "And no, senator, as I was going to say, by implication aren't the protesters implying that they want to burn Nancy Pelosi at the stake? ... "

-- An exchange on NBC's "Today" show.

Bias most ugly: "Now, as many of you know, the health-care debate turned ugly when too many citizens still not over how African-Americans earned equal rights in this country set their sights on denying all of us access to health care."

-- ABC's Diane Sawyer to correspondent

Jake Tapper on "World News."

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