Zernike Slams an 'Angry' White, Male, Reactionary Tea Party
Movement Mired in the Past  Reporter Kate Zernike on the
reactionary Tea Party movement: "They tend to be white and male,
with a disproportionate number above 45, and above 65. Their
memories are of a different time, when the country was less
diverse."  Reporter Kate Zernike, the paper's main reporter on
the Tea Party beat, dropped all pretense of fairness in her
story for the front of the Sunday Week in Review,"Tea Party
Supporters Doing Fine, but Angry Nonetheless."  Sometimes it
reads like a parody, with references to Joe McCarthy as a
conservative hero. It all starts with that chin-leading
headline, rehashing the Times' favorite word to describe the Tea
Party movement (hint: it's not the word "fine"). An accompanying
photo showed a single "Tea Party activist" at a rally near
Albany, N.Y. Where were the others?  Zernike boiled down the
results from the paper's recent polling of the Tea Party
movement, keeping only what could be spun as racial or e