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Texas Insider Report: WASHINTON D.C. In what promises to be yet another attempt to play the race card against the Tea Party movement The NAACPs feigned concern about hate groups infiltrating the Tea Party movement is a plain simple & pathetic attempt at gotcha politics said Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie who has spoken at tea party events in New Jersey Pennsylvania & Michigan.
The NAACP teamed up with a little-known Human Rights group for a yet-to-be released study alleging Tea Party ties to hate groups said Massie.
Members of the Project 21 black leadership network who are also involved in tea Tea Party activism expect this new report will be long on claims and short on facts.
Every other attack against the tea parties failed so its back to square one for the NAACP said Project 21s Kevin Martin a tea party activist in the Washington D.C. area.
Their convention resolution blew up in their face. Their Tea Party Tracker web site fizzled. If this study follows the trend dont expect much. Has anyone told NAACP president Ben Jealous that its three strikes and youre out?
Politico reports the NAACP claims its report will address various associations between tea party organizations and acknowledged hate groups in the United States.
It is said to claim tea party groups are permeated with concerns about race and national identity and have given platforms to anti-Semites racists and bigots.
Based on their past allegations about the tea parties I expect the NAACPs newest attack will once again be riddled with stupid and baseless accusations. They are continuing to be the squeaky wheel that demands attention and hopes that
enough screaming will make their myths into fact said Project 21s Emery McClendon a tea party organizer in northern Indiana.
I hope the NAACPs research receives the scrutiny it deserves.
Leaks of the unreleased reports allegations already are meeting bipartisan skepticism. On Meet the Press this past Sunday anchor David Gregory brought up the allegations made by the report during an interview with incumbent Colorado Senator Michael Bennet (D) and his Republican challenger Ken Buck.
Said Buck: Ive been to over 800 events in Colorado in in the last 20 months. I have not seen that. And and I find it offensive that folks would try to label the tea party in that way. Senator Bennet concurred adding I havent seen a lot of that either.
This study serves only one purpose: to discredit and demonize their opposition and preserve their tenuous grip on power.
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