What you say maybe true...or not.
What is largely forgotten is..up until the last ten years or so people relied on the MSM for their info. There was no 24 hour coverage on C-Span, no Rush, no Levin..etc.
If you watched the MSM today or read the newspapers ONLY...think of what lack of information you might have. That was all that was available for years.
The Tea Partiers are for the most part not young. It’s us geezers that are the engines of that movement. And...no...it isn’t because it suddenly affects us. It’s because we finally have information.
For decades I read numerous newspapers on a daily basis, watched the evening and late news religiously and basically dripped with information.
But I never grasped the basic picture until I started listening to Rush. Remember we were raised with Walter Cronkite “You Were There” and trusted him implicitly. MG the man reported on the death of Socrates.
Personally, I got caught up in major political events and found the reporting to be utterly false. This made me extremely skeptical of the media, a skepticism which has grown to a pathological hatred.
The thing which bothers me about the Tea Party is its undefined and seemingly unstructured organization. This appears to make it vulnerable to the type of fraudulent crap as happening in the recent Special Election in NY.