…The Tea Party is now viewed more favorably than Obamaville despite a vicious and dishonest media campaign against the former (in which the Times, let us never forget, took a particularly dishonorable leading role) and media cheerleading for the latter.

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“We gonna burn New York City to the f—ing ground.”

We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating that all the lies they told about the Tea Party turn out to be true of the Obamavilles and their supporters. Remember the claims that the Tea Parties were violent, uncivil, even “terrorists”? Blogger Morgen Richmond notes a video of an Obamavillian reacting to yesterday’s sweep by making terroristic threats: “On the 17th, we gonna burn New York City to the f—ing ground. . . . Ain’t no more talking, They got guns, we got bodies. They got bricks, we got rocks. Let’s see what they got. . . . In a few days you gonna see what a Molotov cocktail can do to Macy’s.”

ABC News reports that according to U.S. Park Police, a man who is believed to have fired a shot at the White House last week “may have spent time blending in with Occupy D.C. protesters.” On Twitter, The Daily Caller’s Jim Treacher quips: “So he didn’t stand out? Imagine that.”

More seriously, if it had been a Tea Party rally, can you imagine for a second that the mainstream media would have portrayed the shooter as a lone nut merely “blending in”? Blogger “BigFurHat” notes that ABC’s Diane Sawyer, in introducing her moving interview with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that aired Monday, shamefully and deceptively implied that Tea Party “vitriol” and Sarah Palin’s campaign map had something to do with the violent attack on Giffords in January.

And consider this reaction to the cleanup of New York’s Obamaville, which James Downie of the Washington Post posted late yesterday morning on the paper’s website:

As hard as the NYPD and New York City’s government might try to obscure the truth though, one truth remains: At 1 a.m. this morning, in the heart of New York City, protesters exercising their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly were swept away by the state. . . . This morning’s action may not be what a police state looks like, but it’s certainly how one begins.

The left loved to gripe about the Tea Party’s crazy antigovernment rhetoric. That complaint is not wholly unfounded; any political movement is likely to include some people who express their views in an overwrought way. In the case of Obamaville, writers for respectable journalistic institutions are among them….

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