LOS ANGELES, October 24, 2011―If ever there were crystal clear evidence of liberal bias in the news media, the differences between the way the Tea Party was portrayed in 2009 and the glowing tributes to the savages occupying Wall Street would be it.

So for those not infected with the media bias virus, an honest unfiltered lens is needed to show how divergent these movements are.

Despite attempts to paint the Tea Party as astroturf, the Tea Party really was a grassroots movement. It started after a trader on CNBC named Rick Santelli angrily suggested in a now famous rant that Americans should have another revolution by throwing tea in the harbor again.

Ordinary Americans came by the thousands to rallies all over the country, and they were united by one simple message. America was broke, and the people were "taxed enough already." Politicians of both parties had to cut spending. The message never changed. Everything came down to cutting spending. Eighty year old ladies in wheelchairs were concerned that their grandchildren would not have the American dream. Tea Party attendees were trying to preserve the American way of life.

Desperate to discredit the movement, the left tried to paint the Tea Party attendees as racists, going so far as to send in fake protesters with hateful signs to help make that vile charge stick. They called Tea Partiers "violent," despite the absence of a single arrest of anyone at any of the thousands of Tea Party rallies. Many Tea Party attendees raised their voices at town hall meetings, but at no time did any physical violence occur.

Allegations of violence were debunked when liberals failed to produce a single videotape showing anything more than concerned citizens participating in democracy.

Liberals blamed every failure of government on the Tea Party, despite the Democrats having all the levers of power for two years. The Democrats failed to govern. They failed to produce a budget. They rammed a health care bill through without reading it. They ignored the people, and the 2010 elections gave the Democrats a "shellacking."

The Tea Party energized the right, but it made two very important decisions that helped it morph from a curiosity into a serious and relevant political movement.

The first thing the Tea Party did was decide that attending rallies was not the end result. Holding up signs, singing patriotic songs, and giving speeches were a good way to galvanize people, but that could not be the extent of it for the movement to succeed. The Tea Party needed to run candidates for political offices all over the country. They needed real conservatives who would vote to put America in a financial austerity straitjacket until the books were balanced.

The Tea Party then made an even bigger decision which they also got right. Tea Party candidates would not run as third party candidates. They would run as conservative Republicans, which they were. They were not interested in blowing up the system and permanently destroying it. They wanted to revitalize the Republican Party and get it back to its core principles of limited government.

The media focused on the Tea Party candidates who lost, ignoring the fact that a majority of them won in one of the biggest tidal wave Republican election years in history. Rising stars from Marco Rubio and Colonel Allen West in Florida to Nikki Haley and Tom Scott in South Carolina did more than reinvigorate conservatism. They provided real racial, ethnic, and religious diversity to a Republican party often derided as a white Christian male club. Yet this diversity came while expanding conservative principles, not watering them down. Minorities did not win due to quotas, but due to merit.

In just two short years the Tea Party brought the GOP from the brink of irrelevance to the verge of domination. Then after winning the 2010 election, the successful Tea Party legislators and executives did something even more revolutionary. They kept their word. They did what they said they would do. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the liberals kept trying to spend, and the Tea Party freshmen knocked them down at every turn. Obama was dragged kicking and screaming into a discussion about fiscal sanity.

Yet Obama at his core is a leftist, and he has seen his administration collapse. He has always deflected blame for his own failures, and as he sinks further he attacks a new conservative target every week. This is coordinated and repeated by leftists everywhere. One week Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are to blame for Obama's ineptitude. The next week Grover Norquist is the villain. The Koch Brothers were attacked after that. Then the Tea Party itself came under the spotlight.

These attacks all failed because average Americans saw them as pathetic attempts to deflect blame rather than seriously deal with America's problems. Barack Obama would preach civility one minute and lash out with temper tantrums the next minute that would make any toddler proud.

Yet despite being down, Obama had one last ace up his sleeve. He was the consummate community organizer, and it was time to do some community organizing.

His attempts to pass his jobs bill failed miserably because he was no longer the great persuader that he was in 2008. His supporters loved him but Middle America had tuned him out. Positive uplifting speeches no longer fooled people. It was time to go hard negative, and unleash a torrent of the politics of personal destruction.

The new enemies resided on "Wall Street." They were "fat cats," "hedge fund managers," "greedy bankers," and others who had been demonized in the past but never this ferociously by a sitting president (ironically while he was their biggest benefactor of campaign cash).

There would be no more "coming together." It was "us" against "them," and either you supported Barack Obama or you supported Wall Street. As Obamanomics failed to revive the economy, the only thing left to do was turn anger squarely at the bankers.

The Tea Party began because Rick Santelli gave one angry speech. Occupy Wall Street began after Barack Obama gave hundreds of angry speeches.

Yet Occupy Wall Street was not interested in preserving the American way of life. The goal was and remains to destroy the capitalist system. "Fair share" just means "taking from others by any means necessary." Many of the protesters are upper middle class white college students who have not lost their jobs because they have never had one. Many of them are the very trust fund babies they deride. The protesters by and large are Communists, Socialists, anarchists, environmental activists, animal rights activists, and other leftist basket cases using the guise of Wall Street to further their agenda.

This is a dangerous movement. Violence has broken out all over the place as these leftists try to turn America into Greece and London. Wisconsin was a taste of the destruction they desire. Now we see the whole enchilada. Several hundred protesters have been arrested, and the number is rising. Vandalism is out of control.

Mostly, this is a movement that refuses to follow a coherent logical script. If the left were truly angry at Wall Street bankers, they would target Barack Obama. He is King Bailout.

Instead they blame George W. Bush for starting the bailouts, but he has been out of power for three years. Many conservatives were against the Wall Street Bailouts; liberals in office by and large supported them. Conservatives advocated personal responsibility while liberals wailed that the government had to "do something."

Obama bailed out Wall Street and nationalized the big auto companies. He has allowed General Electric to pay zero taxes. He then forced these companies to put out products nobody wants, from awful light bulbs to hideous cars like the Chevy Volt. In return they gave him campaign cash and escaped his regulatory tentacles. It was big business and big politics sharing a giant Obama hug.

All of the hopey, changey, "yes we can" nonsense will not obscure the fact that Barack Obama is Wall Street. He flies on the biggest private jet of anybody in the world. He is "the man." He is the power. Yet Occupy Wall Street protesters go on rampages against bankers who are as much at the mercy of Obama's whims as the rest of us.

Obama knows that he cannot create jobs. Yet by giving them green light in his speeches, he set the leftist mobs out on the streets to attack the straw-man enemies. This is so that he can distract Americans just long enough to save his own job next year.

Occupy Wall Street is nothing more than the Obama community organizing machine. If they succeed at slashing and burning, there will be nothing of society left. There will be no rich or poor. There will just be shared misery.

This is what the Tea Party is trying to prevent. If America as we know it is to exist in 100 years, we should all pray that the Tea Party movement continues to advance while the domestic terrorism (yes, destroying businesses in violent rampages is domestic terrorism) played out by the Occupy Wall Street protesters is crushed quickly and forcefully.

There is no Constitutional right to violent protest. The sooner the fire hoses, tear gas, and billy clubs are dispensed on these leftist loons, the sooner America can get back to being about capitalism, freedom and liberty, with a new leader who truly brings people together rather than using his office to pit us all against each other as America gets ripped asunder.

Brooklyn born, Long Island raised, and now living in Los Angeles, Eric Golub is a politically conservative columnist, blogger, author, public speaker, satirist and comedian. 

Eric is the author of the book trilogy "Ideological Bigotry, "Ideological Violence," and "Ideological Idiocy." Eric is 100% alcohol, tobacco, drug, and liberalism free. After years of dating liberals, he has finally seen the light and now only dates Republican Jewish women. His family is pleased over this. Republican, Jewish women, you may contact Eric above.

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