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In regards to Fox news specifically, I see your point about coverage. I would NOT disagree with you at all that Fox news is more conservative. Every news source is biased to some degree....bbcnews for example didn't have one mention about the tea parties (under U.S. news), but felt the need to talk about some other pointless topics (I posted them in this thread, they're buried somewhere if you care to dig them up).
BUT the media coverage of the tea parties was extremely slim, except FOX. I know this to be fact, as I scoured the news channels for several weeks to see the coverage. Most media gave about 30 seconds of coverage to the tea parties.
So even if what you were saying about excessive media coverage was true (when I know first-hand I saw very little) Making the leap of faith from heavy media coverage to the idea that the tea parties were "manufactured straight up out of a rightwing populist think tank" holds no ground.
Another large protest in recent memory is of course the protests against the Iraq war (wish I could of been there btw) received large amounts of media coverage. Should I suppose it was some left wing anti-Bush propaganda movement manufactured by the left?