Fox News knows where its bread is buttered on Tea Party vs. GOP

I've always figured that when push came to shove between Tea Partiers and GOP inside baseball, Fox wouljavascript:void(0)d clearly come down on the side of inside baseball. And it has. In spades.

When did you think you would read this from Fox?

(T)he rallies have also attracted the kinds of mistruths, exaggerations and conspiracy theories that make Tea Party leaders cringe.

Then, followed by a full laundry list of actual nuttery.

That said, why now? What big issue is pushing Fox to feel that it has to issue a smackdown? Is it perhaps that some of the GOP primary battles are getting too heated?