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Maddow: “big portion of” media “continue to miss the obvious”: industry-tied DC lobbyists behind town hall protests

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 08/04/09 10:50 PM EDT

From the August 4 edition of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show:

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Previously:

GOP mobs and the press

Kornacki: like Tea Parties, protests are lobbyists “manufacturing, with the help of conservative media outlets, outrage”

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