Now this is interesting. The teabaggers have started storming the Bastille Congress - attempting to go shout at representatives who, you know, don’t actually represent their district - but are having a hard time getting in, and TPM is reporting some arrests (with teabaggers hilariously invoking “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”) Your usual teabag outrage.

But Drudge hasn’t touched it.

I mean, get a load of this - this is Drudge right now, 2:46 p.m.:

I got one small link to Bachman’s teabaggery, and that’s it.

There’s a reason for this. It ain’t an oversight on Drudge’s part - normally he’s got the siren blaring, big pics, and maybe he’ll have that later.

But either some intern’s falling down on the job - or Drudge, a primary right-wing source of information, isn’t supporting this. Which would be extraordinarily significant.

Today’s teabaggers have called their event not a protest but a “press conference” - and did so specifically because they were whining about a “media blackout” of today’s event, as if every time they get together to teabag they’re entitled to the front page and if they don’t get it it’s PROOF OF BIAS!!!!

But hell - they barely even made the front page of Drudge.

Update: Via colleague SK, Wolcott notes a similar dynamic on - of all places - Fox News:

I wonder if Fox News may be deciding to dial back its bug-eyed tea-bagginess. Because despite the screen grab shown here at TPM, Fox News has been giving this flocking of the loons at the Capitol rather cursory treatment so far this midday, its sidebar of the breaking stories they’re tracking including the climate bill, Bernie Kerik’s guilty plea, and a promising new hurricane, but not, not, the valiant effort to find Nancy Pelosi’s office and stage a die-in, swooning to the carpet like asphyxiated musketeers. Indeed, as I type, Fox News has cut to a live announcement from the unholy one–Obama, feast of evil–and left the tea baggers’ GOP supporters marooned at C-SPAN 3, where a protester is shown toting a homemade sign declaring “Maoism Is Not Neform.” Now Jean Schmidt is at the podium, looking like an embittered baked apple. But mostly it’s Southern white men in shiny ties lecturing the wind. I wonder if rightwing bloggers will excoriate Fox News for short-shrifting this revolutionary exercise in live-human puppet theater. Perhaps Fox has been intimidated by the recent blowblack against their relentless teabagger promotion, which put Glenn Beck temporarily out of commish after his appendix staged a suicide bomber attack. All I know is that while Republican congresspeople speak truth to power while trying not to get their hair mussed, the story currently up on Fox News is “5 Senior Citizens Break into Nuke Missile Depot Undetected,” which sounds like a possible test run for yet another sequel to Cocoon.