Fox host Bolling: “Isn't the tea party just another wing of the Republican Party? ... Aren't we just splitting the party?”

Written by Media Matters Staff

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From the December 8 edition of Fox News' Your World:

Scott Rasmussen of Rasmussen Reports replies that both tea partiers and Republicans are “all looking for ways to vote against Democrats right now, but they're not exactly the same ... these tea party people will vote Republican in 2010.”

Previously:

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