Even though I've been over this ground before, there's a point I made in the last post that deserves emphasis. The fact that it deserves more emphasis annoys the hell out of me, OK? Not just because I am sick to death of repeating myself, but because I think this is such basic stuff that no one really needs to be saying it, much less repeating it.

The point is this. Despite the fact that the Tea Partiers have been one of the most mild mannered and well behaved groups of demonstrators in American history, there is a huge ongoing effort to portray them as racist, violence-prone, extremist kooks. That this huge effort has produced so little in terms of actual evidence -- almost nothing, in fact -- in my view explains the campaign to infiltrate and discredit the Tea Party movement with a COINTELPRO-style tactics such as false flags, agents provocateur, etc.

As I have argued in countless posts now, it would matter if there were actual extremists and kooks to be found in the ranks of the Tea Partiers, for after all, these are public events. Like it or not, "the public" includes a lot of people, and there is no way to bar members of the public from attending a public event just because you think they hurt your image.

Obviously, the Tea Party movement has not drawn a sufficient number of kooks or extremists, so the left wants to oblige.

So go ahead lefties. Show up in right wing drag (or whatever you think that is) and scream your leftist obscenities. Do your damnedest.

This stuff is old. It won't matter.

While I'm at it, though, I should point out another irony, if I put on a Che Guevara T-shirt and a PLO kaffiyeh and went to a left wing demonstration, there'd be no way I could discredit them, no matter how many racist slogans or obscenities I yelled. To the MSM, I'd just be another Commie loon in the crowd, unworthy of any particular attention. I might even be cheered by the crowd. I think I would certainly be more welcome than an infiltrator who tried a similar approach at the Tea Parties.

Because at the Tea Parties, there are people who think like this:

That alone speaks rather well of the Tea Parties.

MORE: From Charlie Martin, some advice for Tea Partiers:

whatever the source, racially charged language, threats or actual violence are unacceptable, whether it's some misguided soul working independently or a false-flag demonstrator trying to manufacture an incident.

So let's work together to beat them at their own game. If you see anyone with an offensive sign, take a picture of it and forward it to us at Pajamas Media. Mail it to our tips address (story@pajamasmedia.com) and we'll publish it, along with an explicit statement that this doesn't reflect the real tea party spirit. Try to get the person's face, so they can be properly shamed.

Of course, if they're leftists flying under a false racist flag, they will also have their faces and signs published. They'll also be derided, just as if they're real racists. If their friends happen to see them, along with their sign, any conclusions they draw will be their own.