ESPN Host Wonders if the Tea Party Is ‘Like ISIS Trying To Establish a Caliphate’

Kornheiser: ‘Are they like ISIS trying to establish a Caliphate here?’

ESPN Host Wonders If The Tea Party Is ‘Like ISIS Trying To Establish A Caliphate’ (Mediaite)

Huffington Post editor Howard Fineman and ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser compared the Tea Party with ISIS Friday, suggesting the conservative political group shares similarities with the extremist militant group.

Fineman, who was describing the conservative movement in Congress, told Kornheiser that “there are about 40 of those guys and gals who are Tea Party people, who hate the leadership who hate the idea of the leadership, who are hard-core conservatives, who want to shut down the government,” Fineman said, adding that “shutting down the government is like their favorite thing to do.”

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