Reply #44: That is disgusting - and this will work against them

[karynnj]

IMHO, today was a turning point in the coverage. The media has, until today, gone out of its way to show examples of tea partiers who were clean cut family people, often with kids. They gave enormous coverage to the huge (600 people) "convention" and have declared them to be a powerful grassroots movement.

But, led to hatred, by their radio show leaders, they have lost any concept of how extreme they are. The actions today are far from acceptable behavior. The fact is that they should have been called on their rudeness to the Congressmen who did town halls - asking tough questions is great, but their behavior last August was not. Today's are being covered and they are shameful.