Tea Party Crowd Cheers For Charging Ben Bernanke With Treason (VIDEO)

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The crowd at the CNN Tea Party Debate broke out into cheers when host Wolf Blitzer brought up Gov. Rick Perry’s comments that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s emergency economic policies “almost treasonous.”

Perry stood by the comment, calling it “a very clear statement of fact.”

“I am not a fan of the current chairman allowing that Federal Reserve to be used to cover up bad fiscal policy by this administration,” Perry said. “And that, I will suggest to you, is what we have seen.”

“It is a travesty that young people in America are seeing their dollars devalued in what… we don’t know if it was political or not because of the transparency issue,” Perry said. “But I stand behind this: we need to have a fed that’s working towards sound monetary policy, that creates a strong dollar in America, and we do not have that today.”

Blitzer was asking Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) whether she agreed with Perry’s comments.

“As president of the United States I would not be reappointing Ben Bernanke,” Bachmann said. “That’s for Governor Perry to make that decision. My opinion is I would not reappoint Ben Bernanke.”

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