COLUMN: Democrats, media stereotype tea party

With the exception of President Barack Obama, who clings to blaming his predecessor as a "gift that keeps on giving," much of the left-leaning Democratic party leadership and its media-enablers have moved on to demonize the tea party movement. Alternately dismissing the rallies as an irrelevant minority of phony grass-roots (Astroturf) activists while describing them also as anger-driven, dangerous and prone to violence, their conflicting portrayals demand introspection.