Are these people Obama’s “brown shirts” doing his bidding? Hitler didn’t tell the NAZI’s to do some of what they did. But he did insinuate that he was for quite a bit of what happened. His minions went out and pursued his agenda without having to be told directly.
Had the TEA Party folks defended themselves with violence the media would have skewed the story to read something like “TEA Party rally erupts in violence”
What media story? The only place I've seen this story has been on Free Republic.