Media lament: still no violence from the tea party

Wow. Just, wow.

So, a group of about 40 Nazis attempted to hold a "peaceful," rally at city hall. They followed the laws, got permitted, showed up, and exactly failed to initiate any violence. Their message (presumably, as I do not personally subscribe to their social model): non-whites are an uneducated heathen group that threatens the very existence of white folk. Lo and behold, the "minority," groups that showed up to protest (without a permit) threw rocks, bottles, and eggs, and several of the counter-protestors engaged in vicious punch-and-kick beatings of two men, who apparently weren't even with the Nazis! Even the cops weren't safe from the barrage of small projectiles hurled by a crowd of truly angry non-whites.

Message received.

Here's the translation:
1) Angry whites are responsible for all of the nations problems.
2) If Obama-ites perceive you to be a racist, they'll literally kick you while you're down.
3) If the press sees any shenanigans at one of our demonstrations, they'll make sure to report it as though it was our fault, even though it wasn't us that caused any of the trouble.

Hope and change my ass!

The anti-tea-party narrative continues in the press. The template is "you shouldn't give credence to the tea partiers because X, therefore report all stories remotely involving X" This week, X is they are mostly angry white males, which is only a shade different from last week's argument that they are all racists. That's why I find the Nazi story, above, particularly relevant; the Nazis certainly don't represent *our* cause, but it really doesn't matter as far as the press template goes; if it's not angry white men or racism, it's just not making it to the front page. What, you have a story with angry white men *and* racism?!?! STOP THE PRESSES (they still have presses, right?)!

There is an interesting tweak in this week's X, though: in contrast to the Boston Tea Party, most of the modern tea partiers not only saw their taxes go down under Obama, but most "believe," their tax bill to be fair. I'm calling bullshit, here.

The Boston Tea Party was a revolt against over-taxation without any representation. The current tea party movement (if I may be so bold as to interject my own feelings into an entire nation's unrest) is about over-taxation without any representation. You see, the Boston Tea Partiers had representatives in the King's government in about the same way that we have representatives in Obama's government: Bostonite's reps were people that they had no direct knowledge of, that were from a privileged life, that they would probably never meet or be able to engage in any reasonable discussion, and who did not have Boston's best interests as a priority. Just because there's a person filling a post with the title of "Representative," doesn't equate to the people having representation in Congress. On top of that, not only are the angry white tea partiers not getting any value for our tax dollar, the people that are receiving benefit are not contributing to the tax burden! When private citizens do that to each other, it's called theft.

Stimulus, tax day, census, health care, unemployment, jobs bill (an alias for Stimulus II), immigration, and now the Agitator in Chief has the Audacity to criticize us for not thanking him. The press is wrapped up in making sure that everyone knows that we are rich angry white racist men, and our first black president is running around predicting that some whack-job is going to do something violent, which will of course be the fault of high-profile people who keep shooting their mouth off about how bad our government is (which is irresponsible, unless you're his wife).

This is a very toxic mix; in light of the constant baiting by the left, I'm proud that we haven't had any violence. That's a tribute to all of you tea partiers that really do want the best for our country. We know that violence is unjustified, unnecessary, and just plain immoral. Let the current round of name-calling roll off our backs like so much water. Keep up the good fight, we have less than 7 months to go!