The Tea Party Documentary has premiered and it seems that the framing of the issue is perfect… unless you’ve actually followed the tea party movement. From my favorite conservative blog, FrumForum:

…it seems highly likely that the documentary’s producers deliberately left out footage of controversial persons and signs. After all, had you only seen the movie, you would be under the impression that this is a completely reasonable group of people, out exercising their democratic rights. The crazies may not have been in the mainstream of the movement, but they were certainly commonplace enough that it would have taken a contrived effort to leave them out of this film.

From NPR/TNR:

One of the featured characters is a black Detroit native named Nate, who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 “from an upbringing that taught him to mistrust America because of the color of his skin,” but who has since seen the light. The camera follows him as he tells a rapper named Bonz about how the government is stealing money from his pocket. He then tries to explain black psychology. “If they can’t make it, they might as well let the government take care of them,” Nate says, as if to answer the question of why he’s virtually the only person of color marching in a sea of white faces on the Mall.

Revisionism has been a common problem with the tea party movement and its supporters. If you recall, media outlets battled over the total number of attendees of Glenn Beck’s 9/12 demonstration in Washington D.C. There has also been the problem of conservative blogs ignoring or even promoting questionable signs and actions of tea party attendees. Sure, there are probably a fare amount of reasonable people who attend, but they are letting the birthers, et al. ruin it for the rest of them.