This clip shows a CNN reporter interviewing some of the wingnut teabaggers in Chicago today. I hesitate to say this, but CNN might be engaging in some — shudder — honest reporting there:

Wingnut: He’s a fascist.

Roesgen: Why do you say he’s a fascist? He’s the President of the United States. Do you realize how offensive that is?

Wingnut: I think he’s a fascist.

Roesgen: Why?

Wingnut: Because he is.

Realizing that she probably wasn’t going to get anything coherent from this guy, Roesgen then spoke to another man, who proceeded to ramble on about why Obama should be more like Abraham Lincoln, who didn’t try to take taxpayers’ money.

Perhaps now would be a good time to note that Tea Baggers should probably stop looking to Lincoln as a role model. Not only did Lincoln vastly expand the power of the federal government — up to and including suspending habeas — he also was the first president to impose an income tax. Worse, it was a progressive income tax, that charged wealthier taxpayers more.

Obviously, it’s not fair to suggest all of the far-right activists attending Tea Parties were as confused as the strange folks CNN talked to in Chicago, but the “movement” has a long way to go if these guys were in any way representative of the whole.