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Antiwar Democrats beat hawks in primaries and then lost general elections. The disarray of the 1968 Democratic national convention helped beat Hubert Humphrey, and the antiwar 1972 nominee George McGovern lost 49 states. Some antiwar folks voiced an anti-Americanism that turned off ordinary voters. . . . The Democrats before 1968 were a pro-Cold War party. Since 1968 they have been, with occasional exceptions, a dovish party. Hawks need not apply. . . . It's not clear whether the tea partiers' influence on Republicans will last as long as the antiwar cohort's imprint on Democrats."

By 1968 the "anti-war" movement owned the MSM. The TV networks had replaced newspapers as the main source of news for many Americans.

Even before that the networks sometimes described the "anti-war," "free speech" rabble as the most intelligent generation in history.

That ain't going to happen vis-a-vis the Tea Party. Just the opposite but..

There was no Internet and there was nothing like modern talk radio because the "Fairness Doctrine" enabled the left to use complaints as weapons to threaten broadcasting licenses of station owners.

Elections were the only free speech -- except for a few limited-circulation publications.

We were not the silent generation we were the silenced generation.

The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus/street revolutionary rabble took over the Democratic Party and drove many liberals (denounced as "Neo-Cons") out of the party.

Hello! Rat Party.

If the "tea parties echo '60s protests" where's their MSM support, who's their Cronkite? and for which foreign country does he represent?

History proved McCarthy, with zero charisma, was substantially correct. But at the time Edward R. Murrow, March 9, 1954, gave the green light to destroy Joe McCarthy by any means necessary.

Fourteen years later Walter "NV Communists' Most Trusted Man in America" Cronkite signaled that it was urgent to ignore the Communists' biggest of all defeats (the 1968 Tet Offensive had been a total disaster for the Communists) and save the Communists' "struggle" by efforts here in the U.S. -- thus NV General Giap described post-war that the U.S. media was his "most valuable guerrilla." Who is the tea parties admiring foreign general?

BTW, that same year the signal for rampant anti-administration reporting was the simplest of all. The election of Richard Nixon.