The New York Times has posted this picture alongside an article titled "When Does Political Anger Turn to Violence?" It likens the Tea Party protesters to Bill Ayers and the Weathermen - a domestic terrorist organization that bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the State Department in the early Seventies.
I suppose if one wanted to give the Times the benefit of the doubt, they would say that this is intended to illustrate a sliding scale of public anger (i.e. Tea Partiers represent harmless frustration, whereas the Weathermen represent dangerous, violent anger) and this fits nicely with the theme of the article. But as Laura Ingraham said, "We're smart here...we know what's going on."
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