From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And this is Glenn Beck talking about Occupy Wall Street.

Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you're wrong.

They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you.

Last week, we likened the progressive populist protests now collectively known as the occupation

to its anti-government analog, the Tea Party.

But the Tea Party, or parts of it, objects to that comparison.

And according to Politico's Ken Vogel has launched a media campaign to fight it.

Ken, welcome back to On the Media.

Great to be with you, Brooke.

So what exactly are these Tea Party organizations doing to delegitimize the occupation?

Well, we're seeing sort of a two-pronged attack, and one prong of it.

The organizers of some of the biggest Tea Party groups are seeking to draw distinctions

between what they see as the message or rather lack of a cohesive message coming from the Occupy protest.

And what the Tea Party says that it always had as it's undergirding focus being the growth of government and government spending.

The other thing that the Tea Party activists and their organizers are doing is seeking to actually collect evidence of bad

behavior, offensive, signed, violent rhetoric coming from some of the Occupy protests and

disseminating them on conservative blogs and conservative social media with the hope that

this evidence will eventually percolate through to the mainstream media

and sort of term public opinion against these protesters.

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