Michael Kinsley deserves credit for avoiding in his latest Atlantic column the insulting labels and cheap shots many of his brethren in the left-of-center media typically hurl at Tea Party activists.
Still, Kinsley offers a few head-scratching assessments:
The press, both alarmed and delighted by this political force that sprang from nowhere, is eager to prove its lack of elitism and left-wing bias by treating the Tea Party activists with respect.
Really? I’ll bet that’s news to Jon Ham:
If that’s not enough, Kinsley adds this whopper later in the piece:
?I like what they?re saying. It?s common sense,? a random man-in-the-crowd told a Los Angeles Times reporter at a big Tea Party rally. Then he added, ?They?ve got to focus on issues like keeping jobs here and lowering the cost of prescription drugs.? These, of course, are projects that can be conducted only by Big Government.
Really? It’s government that creates jobs and lowers prices? It seems Mr. Kinsley has forgotten the lesson learned upon the completion of his successful brain surgery.
