The Mainstream Media May Fuel This Movement

The Weekly Standard:

"There were many travesties in yesterday's coverage of the nation's tea parties. There was a CNN reporter's brave attack on a father and his two-year old. There was the implication by NBC's Chuck Todd that the parties were orchestrated by the RNC, and the JournoList-approved talking point that that they were somehow 'corporate,' when a forensic look at the organizing reveals it started with a Seattle mom who had never done a political event until this February.

There was the irony of a bunch of retirees, young families, and veterans being lectured about coarsening the debate by their allegedly sophisticated, liberal intellectual betters who were simultaneously making hackneyed oral sex jokes every time they could manage. All of it betrayed a misunderstanding of the people involved in these events and a willful avoidance of the professional effort necessary to correct that misunderstanding."

I, for one, am outraged at the concerted efforts of the mainstream media to discredit yesterday's Tea Parties - over 700 simultaneous peaceful, grassroots protests across the nation by 300,000+ citizens. These brazen efforts to delegitimize conservatives who disagree with the Obama administration are likely to do the opposite, and lend momentum to the anti-big government movement.