via Politico.com

Sen. John Kerry was on “Morning Joe” this morning talking about yesterday’s stock sell-off and the widespread disapproval of Congress after the messy debt deal.

Real Clear Politics flagged one section that’s already getting traction on conservative blogs in which Kerry seems to pretty clearly be talking about the Tea Party.

And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.

It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?

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