August 8, 2011
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Jehmu Greene and Liz MacDonald spar over the Tea Party's role in Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the US credit rating. In the process, MacDonald gets enough wrong to completely muddle viewer's ideas over what caused the downgrade and what the problem is now.
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