From a caption at washingtonpost.com [emphasis added]:

Six hundred tea party leaders arrived Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, for the first-ever three-day National Tea Party Convention. Organizers announced the creation of a political action committee called Ensuring Liberty Corp.

“Leaders”? Wasn't the Tea Party convention open, on a first-come, first-serve basis, to whoever wrote checks to cover the nearly $600 convention costs? How does that make them “leaders” of a political movement?

UPDATED: Oops, from the accompanying article:

It's a critical moment for a movement that is unmistakably people-powered, that has been deliberately left leaderless to give voice to all frustrations.

If the movement is leaderless, than how did its leaders arrive at the convention?

UPDATED: More WashPost oddities:

The 600 delegates at the National Tea Party Convention feel taxed to death, ignored by their elected representatives and the media, and appalled at the federal government's spending -- and there are millions of Americans just like them. Their anger has helped claim some political scalps, and they vow to “take back America.”

Really? Tea Party conservatives feel “ignored” by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, the Weekly Standard, National Review, Michael Savage, Drudge, Towhnall.com, WND, the WSJ, and the NYPost?