The L.A. Times has a good editorial up called, “This Just In… Duck!” about how the Joe Millers, Sharron Angles, Sarah Palins, and Carl Paladinos of the TeaOP are avoiding the press the way we try to avoid being exposed to a Former Half-Gov Ego McEarBleed screechy speechy.

Here’s a sample:

[There's] an undercurrent of hostility promoted by such “tea party” favorites as Sarah Palin, whose followers revel in her frequent putdowns of the “lamestream media.” What’s troubling is that this disdain for the news media is giving many candidates, especially those backed by the tea party, an excuse for dodging responsibility for their own words and actions: Just blame the messenger. [...]

When conservatives demand “fair” coverage, it often seems that what they really want is uncritical promotion of their ideas and campaigns.

Whatever their excuse, whatever their position on the political spectrum, when politicians run away from cameras or lash out at reporters for simply doing their jobs, it’s a pretty good bet that they have something to hide.

The L.A. Times apparently has a flair for understating the obvious.