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Ideas and views, but they're united around a common cause. over the next couple nights in "welcome to the tea party" we'll be drilling down deeper. joining me, john avalon, columnist for the dailybeast.com. and author of "wing nuts: how the lunatic fringe is hijacking america." it has changed, the tea party movement, in some ways over the last year. >> it has. this began as a grassroots fiscal conservative protest. over the course of the summer it got increasingly radicalized. some conservative activists advocating conservatives start using rules for radicals and see them start embracing stree...

The event. outraged building over health care reform and town hall meetings every other day or so there were fistfights, anger was escalating. hundreds of independent tea party groups have sprung up. members are competing political ideas and views, but they're united around a common cause. over the next couple nights in "welcome to the tea party" we'll be drilling down deeper. joining me, john avalon, columnist for the dailybeast.com. and author of "wing nuts." it has changed, the tea party movement, in some ways over the last year. >> it has. this began as a grassroots fiscal conservative pro...

Columnist for the dailybeast.com. and author of "wing nuts." it has changed, the tea party movement, in some ways over the last year. >> it has. this began as a grassroots fiscal conservative protest. over the course of the summer it got increasingly radicalized. some conservative activists advocating conservatives start using rules for radical and see them start to embrace street-theater politics. politics of confrontation. the woel whole thing got uglier. just because the guys with the obama equals hitler signs get the attention doesn't mean it describes the whole movement. >> it's easy to d...

Consensus is important, people are working to try to find solutions to problems. not just win elections and score political points. >> joe, hold that thought. i thought the same thing as i watched president obama speak in front of house republicans in baltimore the other day at their retreat. i said, why can't it always be this way? a lot of people in my demographic and younger wonder, why do you have to belong to a certain party? why do you have to be a democrat or republican? why can't you just be you and vote on the issues? >> it's come down this point where they're not political parties an...

Through the countryside intimidating people. >> yeah, that's a bridge too far. in "wingnuts of the week," we've hit people against using hateful metaphors, whether the kkk or adolf hitler. the right reasons to dubuque joe wilson has nothing to do with his outburst logically returning to the return of the kkk. that raises more debate and raises stakes in a way that doesn't cross the common sense barriers for most americans. >> there are well respected people like president jimmy carter who did say there is a racial component to the opponents of president obama. so, race has been injected into t...