Some perspective on conservative vs. left-wing protests

From Mark Steyn:

Well, the reality is when the tea party crowd showed up in Washington, they left the city cleaner than they found it. If you look at the pictures as the crowd disburses, there’s not a candy wrapper on the grass. I mean, these are the kind of best-behaved protesters ever to hit town. You contrast that with the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh today, when the left wing protestors show up, and they’re having to board up all the stores, they’re having to board up all the local Starbucks and the rest of it, because these guys come to lob bricks through the windows. So it’s transparently false the view that somehow the Republican Party has put this angry, snarling mob of Nazi, racist, right wing, domestic terrorists out there on the street. And furthermore, when a gentleman at Reason Magazine made a very good point about this, that if you just sit back and look at it, the way Ed Schultz, for example, is talking about these so-called right wing extremists, about these political extremists, actually, you’re hearing a lot more paranoia right now from the so-called political center. When you hear Nancy Pelosi and Co. talk about perfectly respectable, well-behaved, peaceful protesters the way they do, they’re the ones who sound paranoid and crazy.