JAMES TARANTO: Tea Party Envy: Be Careful What You Wish For, Liberals.
Yesterday we had a few laughs at the expense of Tea Party enviers in the media like E.J. “Baghdad Bob” Dionne and Nicholas Kristof–easy targets, we’ll admit. But let’s note that there are a few similarities between today’s raging lefties and the Tea Party–or at least the Tea Party as the left imagines it.
For one thing, the Occupiers are mostly white, as Malcolm Sacks, “a New York activist who has been participating in the Zuccotti Park occupation,” tells al-Jazeera. . . .
Meanwhile, at National Review Online Charles Cooke has video of an Occupier berating a Jewish man with anti-Semitic slurs. Cooke reports that “shortly after my video camera was switched off, [the Occupier] (inexplicably) shouted the N-word at the same man.”
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