There were many travesties in yesterday’s coverage of the nation’s tea parties. There was a CNN reporter’s brave attack on a father and his two-year old. There was the implication by NBC’s Chuck Todd that the parties were orchestrated by the RNC, and the JournoList-approved talking point that that they were somehow “corporate,” when a forensic look at the organizing reveals it started with a Seattle mom who had never done a political event until this February. There was the irony of a bunch of retirees, young families, and veterans being lectured about coarsening the debate by their allegedly sophisticated, liberal intellectual betters who were simultaneously making hackneyed oral sex jokes every time they could manage. All of it betrayed a misunderstanding of the people involved in these events and a willful avoidance of the professional effort necessary to correct that misunderstanding. David Corn admits as much in his short write-up for CQ:
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