A Newsweek article about a pending leadership change within France?s National Front party carries the headline ?What a Tea Party Looks Like in Europe.? Why might Newsweek compare American Tea Party activists to this French group?
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the 82-year-old firebrand of France?s far right?the man who for decades has played on the inchoate fears, xenophobia, knee-jerk racism, and ill-disguised anti-Semitism of many of his supporters?had just finished speaking to the faithful on a farm not far from the English Channel.
Of course. Mainstream media outlets have such a good track record of documenting Tea Party beliefs.
