Regardless of whether the MSM or the press have effectively pointed out the corporate funding or the RNC backing of the Tea Parties and the town hall mobs, there one simple succinct point to come back to: the protestors are loud & obnoxious because they are in the minority.

These are people that are not used to being in this position. Since 1980, the conservative movement has either owned the Congress or the WH or both, but never completely out of power like now.

They have watched liberals villify their heroes like Bush & Palin and are getting their revenge.

And most appropriate & important for the health care "debate" and "protests": polls show that most people want health care reform. They do not like Obama's handling of it very much and they do not want to add to the budget deficit. But there are 50M uninsured and people do see the need for change.

They are loud & obnoxious because they are now the minority, do not know how to act in this role and are being fed lies about govt takeover, socialism, euthenasia, nazis, so on and so on.

The fact of being in the minority is the pertinent point and I, for one, have a deep sense of sorrow and sympathy for these people. They must feel very, very scared and lonely right now with a president that does not chest-thump about patriotism, Christianity and eliminating taxes every day ...