Tea Party explained.....

They have for the most part been over run by the advances in information distribution, but like so many before them, they apply antiquated processing skills evolved from earlier technologies. The internet distribution completely end runs their ability to filter bullshit. They are like your little grandma who just cant hang up on a telemarketer because "that would be rude" and end up buying something. They dont have the skill of maintaining a information defensive intellectual posture for the first issue of information and fall prey to primacy in forming their thoughts about the information. Additionally the follow up corrective information is never presented with the ferocity of the initial claim. (birthers....)