A couple of things. First, you are pretty broad-brushed on some of the kook reactions you get in these meetings. I would say that 95% of the people involved in this are not espousing some of the more extreme views like “burning books” or “brainwashing devices”. That’s not to say that I don’t have some serious problems with the bias I see in our educational institutions, but I’m not one for burning books or seeing conspiracies everywhere. You’re going to get your share of this though anytime you get more than 100 people in a room. YouTube just allows this to be magnified.

I will agree that it’s frustrating that this was not going on under the spending sprees under Bush. However it takes time for people to reach their boiling point and I think the double or quadrupling-down actions on spending of the Obama administration and Congress has brought about this tipping point.

Finally, the treatment of the reporter. Notice the reporter is very arrogant during the interview and once the camera is off she becomes more defensive and “reasoned” in her approach. I for one think the crowd was fairly mild considering the way she tried to sand-bag them all. I heard the first gentleman on a radio show after this situation ended. He had some very reasonable things to say. Unfortunately in her effort to spin this event the way she wanted, the CNN reporter never let this man get to his point. That would have angered me tremendously. Consider this, had a Fox reporter engaged an anti-war, anarchist, or pro gay marriage rally similarly to the way this reporter treated these “Tea Party” activists, what do you think the result would have been? I suspect the reporter would have been lucky to get out alive.

I never remember seeing a CNN reporter antagonize a SINGLE protester at some Iraq War protest.

I think if anyone wants to give the media their two cents, they should. The greatest day in American history is when television viewing became so segmented that the left can’t control information anymore.