Brian Williams on Boehner Resignation: He Had To ‘Put up’ with Tea Party

Brian Williams on Boehner Resignation: He Had to ‘Put Up’ With Tea Party (NewsBusters)

Brian Williams, now demoted to breaking news anchor for MSNBC, on Friday lamented that John Boehner had to “put up” with the Tea Party as Speaker of the House. His colleague Chris Matthews cheered, “Everybody likes John Boehner. I can tell you the media like him.”

Talking to NBC political editor Mark Murray about the Speaker's resignation from his position and Congress, Williams blurted, “Talk about what John Boehner has had to put up that is unique to his Speakership. I guess I'm mostly thinking of the Tea Party revolution.”

According to MSNBC's Luke Russert, Boehner “views the harm to the institution as being so great from having these scuffles with conservatives over something as mundane as funding the government.”