Bailey, I think you've taken the point too far and are exhibiting your progressive bias in an issue that will require the Editor of the Detroit News to possibly make an existential decision.

the Tea Party movement was not started by the News, and there has never been a Tea Party bent to the editorial positions taken by The News.

The News leans center-right, the Freep tilts center-left, the Tea Party teeters on the edge of extremism.