I have to admit that it kinda gives me the creeps to think that Sarah Palin is in music city, Nashville, to address the so called "Tea Party" convention. What gives me the creeps is to think she is so close. I just can't believe how much attention to this the national media is giving it. They are giving this so-called Tea Party convention, and Palin, way more coverage than they deserve. This is not a movement that is going to go deep into mainstream U.S. culture.

But for some reason, it seems like the mainstream media wants it to become powerful. Why is that? I can't understand it. But there are some pretty big hints as to how the mainstream is hyping this up. For example, a recent New York Times story about the Tea Party movement reported that out of the so-called Tea Party movement nationally, a number of entities had already been formed, including a number of Political Action Committees. Yet, the fact that the Nashville convention decided to form a PAC was given big news, like it was something unique and important. And all of that pretty much solely because Palin was coming there. That's a crock! This is just one wing of a very splintered more or less libertarian movement that is against taxes and Obama. There's a whole psychology to that I don't want to go into in this column.

Come on mainstream media. Get it right. Quit screwing it up.