Mark Williams Emerges As Teabagger Spokesman

Sacramento's own Talk Radio DJ (formerly with KFBK) Mark Williams! Not doing that well in the glare of the national limelight, but there he is, all the same!

What strikes me most about the Teabagger protests is their manufactured, ersatz nature. Perhaps that's true of all protests - political machinery is full of windbaggery and creaking gears and trying to avoid looking at the men behind the curtain. Still, it strikes me there isn't that much of a groundswell with the Teabaggers. It's mostly directed from above, from national conservative media, and in particular, from FOX News. The participants are mostly suburban, comfortably late-middle-aged, white, and in many cases, fat, gauging from the one Teabag protest I saw here in Sacramento. A very important constituency, to be sure, politically influential, but certainly not a representative American cross-section.