Why the bias against tea parties?

Personally I don't get why there's such animosity by a few against Barack Obama. Just as the hate against George W. Bush escalated to mouth-foaming fury by some, there's a handful who've let their rhetoric get out of hand for Obama. Seriously, had I gone to a tea party, one thing I would have done there is make sure there weren't any extreme signs up.

1) I'd point out to them that comparing Obama to Hitler would be the only sign that would make the news, and therefore make everyone look crazy.
2) I'd suspect some might be liberals trying to make the tea parties look bad.

The extremes are what's going to make the news. I believe the same reasons Keith Olbermann and Arianna Huffington are left-wing icons coincide with the success Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin make with their over-the-top rhetoric. Huffington summed up the tea parties as an excuse for hate-mongering. But I'd expect no less from her. I'd expect no less from David Shuster to use the tea parties as an excuse for junior-high jokes about tea-bagging. And I applaud Joe Scarborough for calling out his own network on it.

I didn't expect as much coverage to tilt left-ward from the mainstream media as it did. CNN acted like it wants to be MSNBC2 with this story, and maybe it's because they're now fourth in the cable-news ratings. There is very little news left. If you want to know events with a Republican spin, you go to Fox News. If you want to know events with a Democratic spin, you go to MSNBC or ABC or CNN or CBS or Comedy Central. (Jon Stewart's research team is only rivalled by Meet the Press). Headline News still has some good straight stuff, Lou Dobbs and Nancy Grace aside. And while I thought Tim Russert was the best, David Gregory may yet grow into the role of attack-dog to both sides.

So the "media" - this giant shadowy thing - is coming to Obama's defense. And since the tea parties were largely grass-roots, there aren't effective spokespeople to underline three times the point, that spending grew to an all-time high under Bush, then the Democrats took Congress and it went even higher, then Obama got elected, and spending will quadruple.

I think the point should be yelled loud and clear that Congress is the problem, that the only way to truly get change in Washington is to change your representation in Washington. All 50 states should look long and hard at their senators and congressional reps. I'm in Utah's 3rd, and we now have a rookie (Jason Chaffetz) in there. We have two GOP senators in our largely Republican state, but Sen. Bennett, running to serve a fourth term in 2010, is going to get challenged in the primary because we can only reform the system by starting in our own house. It is my hope that the good people of Massacusetts and Connecticut can find some Democrats to run against Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, get some of these entrenched, cynical politicians out of there.

No, I didn't go to a tea party. Byzantine as the tax system is right now, I have a disabled daughter, and my family would have been in a galaxy of financial hurt without Medicaid. No one should have to choose between bankruptcy and keeping their child alive, and thanks to Medicaid, we don't need to have that discussion.

P.S. - is it just me, or do the extreme right-wing and left-wing have a lot more in common with each other than centrists? Stalinist communism is considered the ultimate left-wing nightmare and Mussolini fascism is considered the ultimate right-wing nightmare (even though Jonah Goldberg would argue that's left-wing too), but don't they have a ton more in common with each other than with a Democratic Republic?