The tea parties really seem to bring out the irrational side of liberals .. as if there is any other side. But liberals cannot stand the idea that there would be a real, grassroots movement in the United States that unifies around freedom and limited government, rather than control and big government. Well .. not only can't liberals stand the very idea of the tea parties .. they're actually scared witless by these people with their flags and pointed questions.

That brings us to Anthony Bourdain. Apparently this loon has a show on the Travel Channel where he wanders around the globe eating strange things. Well I'm thinking that he ate something that bored into his brain and rewired a few circuits. The Bourdain clown shows up on Anderson Cooper's show (where else? But I'm not going there) where, for some reason, he is asked about the tea party movement. Bourdain proceeded to compare the tea party supporters to those who campaigned for George Wallace back in the day. He says:

You know, I was just reading "Hellhound on His Trail," a book about the -- about the assassination of Dr. King and about -- particularly about the Wallace-for-president campaign in California back then. And you're looking at, I think, at basically the same demographic: a lot of marginal, very angry white people.

I'm pretty happy about the Tea Party, because I think they're ensuring that no reasonable electable Republican will be -- will be president.

Hmmm. Wondering why CNN is dragging its butt at the hind-end of the cable news channel ratings wars? Having this gastronomical moonbat spout off about the tea parties might give you a clue. Maybe Cooper can ask some tea partier what she thinks about eating sloth snot.

It really is getting old, isn't it? Yeah .. those tea partiers are nothing but a bunch angry white people. Liberals are afraid of the tea party movement because they know that the tea party principles are the only way that we are going to get our country back on track (if that is even possible). But they are not easy solutions. They are hard and they require self-reliance and less government. Liberals aren't really fond of those concepts, so their solution is to paint the tea party folks as fanatics.

Worm-eater Anthony Bourdain isn't the only one out there spouting this kind of rhetoric. A column in the Washington Post by Gene Weingarten takes a shot at the tea party movement. In a review of a George Bernard Shaw play, Weingarten digresses into this little rant:

This sort of unwritten literary convention may seem quaint today, but such subtle rules are still practiced. For example, American journalists know they can write about the Tea Party, but only if it is presented as a serious ideological movement instead of as a posse of ignoramuses carrying signs such as the one in the second photo on this page [above] ... But I digress!

Rand Paul's victory is a big one for the Tea Party movement, but it isn't enough for liberals. It will never be enough. The next president could be a Tea Party candidate, but it will still be viewed as a racist movement, a right-wing movement, a fringe movement.