The media has been of enormous help to the tea party bowel movements.
The small, intense crowd at the beginning of the summer was covered so
extensively and in an hyper way - as opposed to a calm rational way -
that it helped spread the word and create the impression that it is a
solid movement of maybe millions of people. Every comment made by
anyone connected to the movement was quoted at great length no matter
how stupid the quote. Nothing like encouraging the bastards.