Reply #5: Progressives did their share of crashing.

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But were pelted by teargas, or were manhandled by police officers. It's because many of them were younger.

'Teabaggers' tend to be older, and doing the same to them would be less acceptable to people because of social biases. It's a double standard, and the police know what they can and can't get away with. If they did the same to teabaggers, there would be investigations and firings. Unfortunately, nobody cares when it happens to "smelly hippies," and anti-Bush protests were poorly covered.