The tea party: Convenient scapegoats?

 

Another act of mass violence, another round of finger-pointing directed at tea party members. When ABC News issued a report Friday suggesting that the horrific shooting at a Colorado movie theater was perpetrated by a suspect with ties to the movement, the situation had a familiar feel to it,

English: Official portrait of United States Representative . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

tea party leaders say. Just as in January 2011, when the Tucson shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords sparked speculation that the perpetrator was either affiliated with the tea party or influenced by its anti-government rhetoric, members were again wrongly fingered as possible culprits and forced to defend themselves against the assumption that there might be a link. This time, tea party leaders responded angrily — and with a sense of deep frustration over the latest erroneous connection drawn between their political beliefs and gun violence.

English: John McCarthy Roll, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court of Arizona. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As they see it, it’s the latest attempt to demonize the grassroots activists, carried out by a hostile media that’s all-too-willing to believe the worst about them.

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