TX Tea Party Leader Phillip Dennis Battles Chris Matthews, Defends Michele Bachmann: 'You Fear the Tea Party'

(By Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters.org) - For the second day in a row, MSNBC's Chris Matthews mercilessly attacked Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) while repeatedly referring to her as a "balloon head."

Knowing what he was going to be up against, Texas Tea Party leader Phillip Dennis came prepared for the "Hardball" host's hostility, and at the end of a lengthy segment, marvelously summed up exactly why Matthews and others in the media attack this movement and all of its members saying, "You fear the Tea Party":