Good Morning America’s Jon Karl on Thursday used a new study by the liberal Environmental Working Group [EWG] to deride the calls of spending cuts by certain Tea Party Republicans as “hypocritical.”

Karl didn’t raise any concerns about hyping the claims of the EWG, an organization that, as Michelle Malkin pointed out in 2002, has railed against hair spray, playgrounds and the conservative journalist John Stossel. Instead, Karl chided these House GOP members for receiving federal money for farm subsidies.

Co-anchor George Stephanopoulos excitedly introduced “[Karl] joins us now with a discovery that may cause some discomfort for some of those members of Congress and their supporters in the Tea Party.”

Rather than inform viewers of the EWG’s activist leanings, the ABC reporter blandly explained, “According to a new study by the Environmental Working Group, [Tea Party Republican, Representative Stephen] Fincher’s family farm has received more than three million dollars in federal subsidies since 1995.”

An ABC graphic dismissed, “Tea Party Darlings on the Dole: Taking Millions in Government Money.” A second graphic read, “Hill ‘Hypocrisy.'”

Karl played a clip of the EWG’s President, Ken Cook: “This is a group of people coming into Congress with Tea Party support who, in fact, are partaking in big government.”
Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.