The usual attempt to marginalize 'Tea Party' members/supporters as mostly upper-middle class, well-educated, middle aged white men who are 'angry' is rubbish - and the L.A. Times hack that authored this article, knows it.
Part of the rationale for this kind of pap is to persuade those who may be sympathetic to the goals of the Tea Party activists that this a 'fringe' group and you don't belong there. The rest is an attempt to convince themselves that the Tea Party is irrelevant and nothing for the oh-so brilliant leftists to fear.
They need to do this because the political left and the media hacks that publish their propaganda (like this L.A. Times piece) know full well that they're supporting a president and congress that is pushing the country toward European socialism as fast as they can while dropping our defenses and torpedoing the U.S. economy with insane spending policies.
This used to be called 'whistling past the graveyard'. Now, it's just standard leftist propaganda. Lies and smears intended to convince people that the Tea Party is nothing to worry about. They wish. November 2nd can't come soon enough.
Exactly. They can't keep their spin straight.
Didn't Nixon also speak of "the silent majority"? Except in this case, the people represented by the "Tea Party" are not so silent, or invisible.
Sure they are. Especially the media lackeys, because waking up involves figuring out just how much and how often they have lied to you.