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■ After the September 12,

2009 rallies,

the networks suggested

the Tea Party was an

extreme or racist movement.

On CBS, Face the Nation

host Bob Schieffer decried

the “angry” and “nasty”

Capitol Hill rally,

while ABC’s Dan Harris

scorned protesters who

“waved signs likening

President Obama to Hitler

and the devil….

Some prominent Obama

supporters are now saying

that it paints a picture of

an opposition driven,

in part,

by a refusal to accept

a black President.”

■ Overall,

44 percent of network

stories on the Tea Party

(27 out of 61)

suggested the movement

reflected a fringe or

dangerous quality.

ABC’s John Berman

was distressed by

“a tone of anger

and confrontation”

he claimed to find at

the Tea Party convention

in early February.

In September,

NBC’s Brian Williams

trumpeted Jimmy Carter’s

charge that the Tea Party

was motivated by race:

“Signs and images at last

weekend’s big Tea Party

march in Washington

and at other recent events

have featured racial and

other violent themes,

and President Carter

today said he is extremely

worried by it.”

■ While network reporters

have strained to protect

left-wing causes

(such as the anti-war

movement)

with the outrageous acts

of individual protesters,

they were quick to smear

the entire Tea Party based

on isolated reports of

poor behavior.

On the night of the final

vote on ObamaCare in

March,

for example,

ABC’s Diane Sawyer

cast Tea Partiers as

out-of-control marauders,

“roaming Washington,

some of them increasingly

emotional,

yelling slurs and epithets.”

CBS’s Bob Schieffer also

cast a wide net, accusing

“demonstrators” of

hurling “racial epithets”

and “sexual slurs,”

and even conjured images

of civil-rights era brutality:

“One lawmaker said it

was like a page out of

a time machine.”

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While the broadcast networks