Occupy Press Corps

Face it, you'd be safer at Guantanamo Bay than at any Occupy protest camp.

And yet the media portrays the Tea Party as a civil rights crime wave waiting to happen with that seething band of gun-totin', Jesus quotin', bigots, despite the lack of even a littering ticket to point to as evidence of their depravity; the Occupy protesters get coverage that would make you think they are a League of Women Voters conference, with the loftiest of lofty motives, rather than being closer to bands of marauding barbarians sacking (and fouling) our cities.

Glenn Reynolds compares the two.

And at Instapundit, he notes that the Vanguard of the OWS thinks it can better use the money than the grubby 99% of the people fouling the sidewalks at OWS camps. If government is so wise, why don't the OWS vanguard donate the money to the federal government to spend?

But the press corps is made up of people who share the world view and objectives of the OWS types (and even the wardrobe), even if the press people don't like the active measures being employed; while the media sees the objectives and lifestyles of Tea Party members as alien and frightening. So any violence in a group of OWS protesters is obviously just a few getting carried away since all the people the reporters know who love OWS would never be violent. And any hint of violence among Tea Party protesters is just revealing the true face of all of them despite their great care to conceal their violent hate, since the protesters don't even know any of them. Tea Party people are "the other" easily demonized.

How anyone can say our media isn't heavily biased to the left is beyond me.