i guess you missed that there are DEMOCRATS in these things as wellThen why did the MSM portray them as a bunch of Republican hillbilly redneck racists?
Because The Democrats are Running the show right now, and the effect of the Tea Parties hurts them more directly.
Apparently the tea partites are a much bigger threat to the GOP right now. They are not threatening to splinter support away from the Democratic Party.
This is surprising to me in that I always assumed that the Democratic Party - being the more diverse of the two main parties - would be the first to crack and splinter. It still remains to be seen if this fracture will really happen, but it is interesting.