frank rich's column today is an excellent sample of the leftish msm's approach to the tea party. there is not a moment of actual treatment of issues or arguments, only a haze of fear and ad hominem abuse. he just tries to surround the whole thing in a poisonous cloud of threat and craziness. it's all innuendo and tangential connections. let me put this gently: i can do the same to you, frank. or i'll leave that to glen beck and his chalkboard, showing all your marxist associates and anti-americanism. but that wouldn't actually have any tendency to show that what you believe is false, would it?

i do have to give some credit, though. it's like they finally realized that the tea party is not a republican movement. obvious from the getgo, but it was a stick so they used it to thrash.