Teabaggers Can't Decide Who the Real Teabaggers Are

So, the Tea Party movement is still a hilarious mess. The "Tea Party Patriots" think the "Tea Party Express" is a scam and the upcoming "Tea Party Convention" is basically a huge ripoff.

So, the Tea Party movement is still a hilarious mess. The "Tea Party Patriots" think the "Tea Party Express" is a scam and the upcoming "Tea Party Convention" is basically a huge ripoff.
The "Tea Party" movement—a frothy mix of angry white populism and well-funded professional political campaigning—is about taking our country back from the socialists, and also about holding up terribly embarrassing signs. Here's one with a really bad word!
Unalloyed xenophobic rage presents a challenge similar to one posed by habitual lying—just as it's hard to keep up with one's own falsehoods, it's difficult to remember whether shouting "Heil Hitler!" at a Jew is good or bad.
Susan Roesgan's report from last week's Tea Party in Chicago ended with a particularly damning example of a TV news reporter reporting the truth:
Foxnews.com has published a screed taking the mainstream media to task for their "orally charged" coverage of the tea parties: Namely, the repeated use of the term "teabagging" for giggles.
Neil Cavuto has been at Sacramento's TEA PARTY protest for hours, and he thinks maybe the protesters were "playing to the media"!
Hah, it's fun to marginalize a protest movement by selectively focusing on its craziest fringes, but the "Tea Party" movement is all fringe and no legitimate grievance. Look, the white supremacists are psyched!
Specifically, old-fashioned "the commies are stealing our essence" talk followed by this hilarious conversation: