I was surprised when I saw this video up at the AJ news page.  It was a legitimate story on the Teabag Party and how they were going to hold a convention.  The convention failed as tickets to attend were said to be priced at $500 a head.  AJ also says the Teabag Party was instrumental in getting Scott Brown elected in the US senate.

As I watched the video, they had the footage of some of their signs.  Painting Obama as a Adolf Hitler, misidentifying him as a socialist.  For the record, National Socialism has nothing to do with Socialism, it is quite the opposite.

What I see is people who feel like they are cut off from the system rallying hysterically against strawmen and caricatures they have little understanding of.  I believe it is symptomatic of the increasingly fragmented body politic in the US.  People are beginning to realize that neither established party is serving their needs.