I am old enough to remember the early 70’s and all the college campus “protests”. I do not recall the media being all that upset and worried that it might lead to anarchy or revolt against the government. Nixon was Prez then, so you can guess how the media felt about government then, too. But noe Zero is Prez and the media feel that they must protect him.
The MSM don't care about the Pres_ent, Marxist megalomaniacs are a dime a dozen. He can easily be replaced. Their aim is to stifle dissent. They want to vilify the TEA partiers so that people will be afraid to join in for fear of being painted as violent racists.
It isn't going to work. The MSM has tried the same sort of thing against Rush. Unfortunately for them, every time they did, his listener-ship would increase from people who wanted to hear for themselves. They have tried it with FR with similar results. More and more people are realizing that the lying, leftist media cannot be trusted.