Media make Tea Party frequent suspect following shooting attacks
ABC News had to quickly apologize last week after star
correspondent Brian Ross suggested on air that the Colorado
massacre suspect was tied to the Tea Party.  He wasn't.  But it
was hardly the first time a reporter or columnist has implicated
the conservative grassroots network during the moments following
a high-profile attack. The Media Research Center, a conservative
media watchdog group, has strung together a video chock-full of
examples of this since the dawn of the Tea Party in 2009.   The
Tea Party suspicion first started to pick up steam early the
following year. After a white professor killed three colleagues
in Alabama in a terrible shooting spree in February 2010, the
Forbes-funded online site True/Slant published an article
asking: "Does racism explain the 'tenure shooting' and Tea Party
movement?"   The writer posited that the shooting, combined with
the "success of the Tea Party movement," together proved that
America was not ye