http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2009/apr/18/right-wing-antics-media-criticizing-tea-parties/
By Mark Levy Dear Joe Conservative: You right wingers crack me up with your little tea parties. Haven’t you read history? Throwing around a bunch of silly tea bags is hardly what the colonists did in the Boston Harbor back in 1773.
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No need to say anything bad about this man. He said it all himself apparantly.
That couldn’t have been the same Mark Levy.
Mark Levy wrote the "Joe Conservative" column, and that's a letter by a liberal reader.
Here is his reply:
Dear Tea for Two: The purpose of the rallies was not right or left but simply to send a strong message that Washington is spending too much money and Americans are taxed too much. Sounds applicable to citizens of all partisan stripes, but to hear the media reports one would conclude that this was a bunch of radical white supremacists carrying pitchforks and going after a black president. True, there were plenty of anti-Obama signs, but these rallies were so peaceful and lawful that the plans for tossing 1 million tea bags in D.C. had to be canceled because the organizers did not have the proper permit. (On a side note, you know there are too many laws on the books when there are permits available for tea-bag tossing.) In addition, it was disgraceful how politicians such as Nancy Pelosi belittled the participants by implying they were pawns of the rich. She went on to say the tea parties were not grassroots efforts but “Astroturf” funded by D.C.-based conservative groups concerned only about tax cuts for the wealthy. If this is her interpretation of events then Madam Speaker better get used to being minority leader after 2010. It was appalling how one major network allowed their hosts to jokingly refer to the participants. Let’s not forget about the CNN reporter who thought the Chicago tea party was too much for family viewing. Has she heard any stories about the liberal rallies held in San Francisco?
Sounds like he was one of the good guys.