The faux "rival" to the tea parties has become an embarrassment to the left and the journalists who hyped it. Last winter, it sounded like such a good idea to the left: gin up a rival to the tea parties and call it The Coffee Party. Pretty standard Astroturf agitprop material -- the kind of thing David Axelrod excelled at when selling his services to Chicago utility Commonwealth Edison (headed back then by Bill Ayers' daddy, Tom Ayers), which needed the appearance of public support for building a new power station.Purportedly, the whole Coffee Party grew exponentially when an ordinary citizen named Annabel Park posted a Facebook entry calling for a return to "civility." Supposedly, the CP spread like wildfire, with 200,000 "friendings" on Facebook, lickety-split. CBS News asked, "Is the 'Coffee Party' the next big thing?"The Washington Post not only wrote a glowing news report on the CP ("Coffee Party activists say their civic brew's a...(Read Full Post)