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That demonizing the Tea Party as a Conservative bogeyman isn't helping anything.

The Tea Party began as a genuinely grassroots, politically diverse group that stood up because things they believed in were not happening. Most Tea Partiers are still these people. The problem is that establishment Republicans have co-opted the Tea Party idea and operate their own Tea Party groups as completely Republican operations that the media, because they're lazy (not because of an institutional bias that doesn't exist) just call the Tea Party. The idiots shouting at Democratic Senators and Congressmen and holding misspelled signs are not Tea Partiers as the original group intended. To vilify the whole of the group for the small, vocal minority that shows up on the news is to embody the very spirit of partisanship and liberal blindness that the establishment Republican party and Fox News want people to think Democrats are. Using derogatory phrases like Koch sucker to define an entire, diverse group is infantile and, frankly, stupid. No more is every member of the Tea Party Andrew Breitbart than every Liberal is Jeremiah Wright.

I'm a life-long progressive, but when I started noticing that every single left-leaning news source was vilifying a group I knew nothing about, I read up on it. How we as a political movement can condemn republicans for parroting everything Fox News tells them verbatim while doing the same, exact thing with the Tea Party mythos is boggling. Why won't people of all political stripes take the time to inform themselves on a subject and then form their own, personal opinion instead of taking the corporatist network news as gospel?

that clog Yahoo! answers proof that we desperately need comprehensive sex ed in American schools. If so many women don't know the simple fact that unprotected sex can lead to pregnancy, doesn't that say that abstinence only education is failing our kids?

That if you drop the "Anthony Weiner tweeted a picture of his penis" controversy, we'll stop talking about Palin's version of Paul Revere's ride?

We both know both things aren't a real controversy. Palin misspoke while conveying something that did happen, and Weiner's discretions are between him and his wife. Won't we all be happier?