What makes you think that the commentators are ‘the American public’?
Are those commentators not say a few men and a monkey working out of a garage somewhere with thirty to fifty fake accounts?
The “commentators” on all the DC-based news outlets are almost always liberal government/NGO employee-types from the Maryland-NoVA area who obsess over the TEA Party movement.
Are those commentators not say a few men and a monkey working out of a garage somewhere with thirty to fifty fake accounts?
You might be right but, then, the same could be said for the commentators here on FR.