If you want a really good laugh and you have some competence in your thinking processes, read some of the statements about the Tea Party by lefty members of Congress, Democratic Party leaders, the NAACP, and the mainstream media for 18 months before the 2010 election. Also, the absurdity has continued in some of the mainstream media, like the New Yorker, since the election.
The Tea Party turned out over 10 million voters in the last congressional election. They hear the insults directed at them.
I have been going to public rallies in San Francisco and a few of the surrounding areas for over 55 years. I attended dozens of parades and rallies from the hippies and the antiwar movement in the mid-60s on. I have continued to go to rallies and parades and marches including of those in the 70s, 80s (Nicaragua,etc) 90s (Iraq) and for the past 10 years.
Until the past year and a half 95% of all demonstrations were lefty. There were some pro-abortion marches in San Francisco over the past five years. There have also been pro-police marches in the past five years. There have also been some pro-Israel and anti-Israel marches.
Beginning in August of 2009 we got the first all-purpose pro-Constitution movement in the form of the Tea Party.
If you have been to as many marches and parades and demonstrations as I, probably hundreds, you could make this positive statement that I am making here. More than 98% of the hate posters, signs and insignia that are references to Nazis, Jew-hate, or statements about killing political figures... come from the Left.
The only other such references come from the consistently present Lyndon LaRouche supporters.
The pro-Israeli demonstrators and the Tea Party gatherings are made up of mature, peaceful, usually well-dressed and temperate adults. No hate signs, no belligerence, no antagonism toward people on the other side. Just civil behavior.
If you have friends who would doubt my accuracy, suggest that they get off their lazy asses and go look for themselves.