Sometimes, tea partiers, it's not about you, no matter how much Fox News may want it to be.

Fox Nation, the website of tea party movement's network of choice, is currently blaring the headline “Rep. Jane Harmon, D, Links Tea Partiers to Terrorism”:

Fox Nation only has two things wrong:

• 1) Her name is Jane Harman, not Jane Harmon.
• 2) She didn't “Link Tea Partiers to Terrorism.”

Clicking on the Fox Nation image brings you to a clip of Harman, Sen. Joe Lieberman, and former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff from Sunday's Meet the Press, along with the following quote from “Harmon”:

“Let's understand law enforcement does a wonderful job keeping this country safe. Without the women and men of law enforcement who kept our Capitol safe during the protests on health care, I think we'd be in much worse trouble. But the point is not all terror groups are Muslim groups and not all of them are Al Qaeda related. This is a global problem and domestically we have a growing problem of homegrown terrorism not just from Muslims.”

Wow, bereft of all context, it certainly looks like she's saying that the “protests on health care” were held by “terror groups” that are not “Al Qaeda related,” doesn't it? Until you pull up the actual context:

MR. GREGORY: I want to turn to the domestic threat. And there's been a lot of developments about this more recently, including this Christian militia, the Hutaree militia in Michigan facing charges of a violent plot to overthrow the government. This is from their Web site, where they showed some training. Mike Isikoff writes in Newsweek's blog about the conditions under which this is happening. “In some respects, the increase in such violent hate groups as the Hutaree appears reminiscent of the surge in militia activity that preceded the '95 Oklahoma City bombing. Just this month, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that it had tracked an explosion in extremist, anti-government 'Patriot' groups, fueled in large part by anger over the economy and Barack Obama's presidency. The number identifiable Patriot groups increased 244 percent, from 149 in 2008 to 512 in 2009.”

Senator Lieberman, back to you. In this highly charged political atmosphere, where you've got so much passion, so much disagreement, this takes it, of course, to a different level. But we're also operating in a recession and at a time where there's a lot of anger at Washington. How has the nature of that threat escalated, in your view?

SEN. LIEBERMAN: Well, the threat has definitely escalated. And all the conditions that you mentioned, David, are there to encourage people. Look, I would say a word of caution to my colleagues in both political parties and, frankly, in the media. The level of discourse about our politics and about our country are so extreme and so incendiary that if you're dealing with people who may, may not be clicking on all cylinders and, and may have vulnerabilities personally, there's a danger that they're going to do what this group of militia planned to do this week. I would not overstate this threat. It is not as significant as the global threat of Islamist extremism, but it is real. And I want to assure the American people, from where I sit as the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, that your government is taking this militia threat very seriously. The FBI is on top of this. That's why, through good work and informants, they stopped this Hutaree group before they had a chance to do what they wanted to do, which is to attack law enforcement officers, to try to...

MR. GREGORY: Right.

SEN. LIEBERMAN: ...break down authority in our country.

MR. GREGORY: Right. And you had a--Congresswoman, you also had a threat to, to governors as well, you know, a letter telling them that they needed to step down.

REP. HARMAN: That's right. But the other troubling thing about this is that group was going to import the terror tactics used by al-Qaeda and other groups. They were going to use IEDs to blow up the funeral procession for these law enforcement officers that they were going to execute. Let's understand that law enforcement does a wonderful job of keeping this country safe, and without the women and men of law enforcement, who kept our Capitol safe during the protests on, on health care, I think we'd be in much worse trouble. But the point is that not all terror groups are Muslim groups, and not all of them are al-Qaeda-related. This is a global problem; and, domestically, we have a growing problem of homegrown terrorism, not just from Muslims.

Ah. So in reality, the panel was discussing domestic terrorism, specifically the allegations against the Hutaree militia in Michigan. Harman comments that the group “was going to import the terror tactics used by al-Qaeda and other groups” such as “use IEDs to blow up the funeral procession for these law enforcement officers that they were going to execute.” She then comments that law enforcement does a great job keeping Americans safe, citing as an example their crowd-control work during recent Capitol Hill protests, which she thinks prevented “much worse trouble.” Then, apparently returning to her discussion of the militia, commenting that they are an example of non-Muslim “homegrown terrorism.”

That is a long, long way from “Link[ing] Tea Partiers to Terrorism.” But for some reason, that's what Fox wants their audience to think happened.