MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has never had a fondness for the Tea Party. But this week, she devoted an especially long and rambling segment on the diminishing influence of the movement, according to Businessinsider.com. The cable news flame thrower pointed to low turnout at the recent Tax Day Tea Party rallies across the country as evidence “the Tea Party has peaked.” Maddow even compared the Tea Party to the Kardashians, saying:

 

"I could never figure out at what point the vicious cycle got started but it's clear that it's become, it's like being famous for being famous. At a certain point, like, you can never remember what Kim Kardashian did in the first place that you, like, who Kim Kardashian is but, like there she is, and, like, you know who Kim Kardashian is so whatever she does, then you go to cover it. I feel like the Tea Party is sort of like that at a certain point. There's this kind of self-fulfilling celebrity to them. Sarah Palin is a very sort of similar phenomenon, and I'm not sure how you break up that phenomenon."