Tom Harkin: "Conservative media trying to scare people..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/tom-harkin-conservative-m_n_2288696.html

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Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) joined HuffPost Live host Alicia Menendez to discuss the fiscal cliff, and blamed conservative media for blowing the crisis out of proportion as a means of scaring people.

"The Rush Limbaughs and the echo chambers around the country have really manufactured this," he said, comparing it to the Y2K crisis. "This crisis has been manufactured to scare people so that we will do something here in a hurry."

Harkin said it's "like hostage-taking," and added that the conservative media has "confused people deliberately in order to try to get their way."