Jesse Jackson had some tough criticism for the Tea Party movement at a Martin Luther King event on Thursday. USA Today's Melanie Eversley covered his remarks, getting a Tea Party activist to respond to his criticism. The piece then added this, presumably in order to add some context: The group has faced criticism of being a racist group, a claim made most visibly by former National Public Radio fundraiser Ron Schiller, who was caught on hidden camera calling the group racist and xenophobic, prompting his immediate resignation. In other words, lots of people seem to hurl accusations of racism at [...]
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Aug
26
2011
O'Keefe's Bogus NPR Sting Lives On
Filed Under: NPR, Race, USA Today Tagged With: Andrew Breitbart, David Folkenflik, Melanie Eversley, Tea Party

