Scenes from a Tea Party

That Fox News varnish is getting out of control and the effect seems to be spreading.

 So let this be a lesson to you kids out there: Don't huff the varnish from Fox News. It'll make you stupid and crazy with rage. And stupid and angry never leads anywhere good.

The photo on the left, from AP photographer John Bazemore, was taken from a "Tea Party" rally orchestrated in Atlanta yesterday where varnish-huffing angry people waved signs suggesting that President Barack Obama is a Soviet communist.

The middle photo, from AP's John David Emmitt, shows varnish-addled Bill Mennear whose sign at a Florida Tea Party suggests that the president is, somehow, both a Nazi and a Soviet communist. Oh, and also either a Maoist or Subgenius Bob. Or both.

The photo on the right, from Getty's Scott Olson, shows varnish-fiend Robert Goerlich of Chicago, who believes that President Barack Obama is not just any Nazi, but Adolf Hitler himself. (Goerlich later was fined $20 by lobbyist Dick Armey's Washington-based Freedom Works Foundation for straying from the message discipline intended for these demonstrations — he forgot to also suggest that Obama is a Soviet communist.)

Looking at photos like these and others from yesterday's events, I can't help but wonder if some of these guys aren't so much angry about taxes as they are about the fact that some commie judge says they still have to pay child support even though they're not even allowed to see the kids, what with the restraining order and all.