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To: Sully- who wrote (79066)	4/20/2010 9:34:28 AM
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Tea Parties more diverse than New York Times board of directors By: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer 04/19/10 4:01 PM EDT Tom Maguire notes that New York Times columnist Charles Blow owes his readers a pretty important correction: <<< Meanwhile, I am eagerly awaiting a correction on this from Mr. Blow: A New York Times/CBS News poll released on Wednesday found that only 1 percent of Tea Party supporters are black and only 1 percent are Hispanic. It’s almost all white. It’s almost all white and he has the pictures to prove it. Ooops, my bad – that was a link to the NY Times Board of Directors, which seems to be utterly free of any Hispanic, black or Asian presence. Anyway, the NY Times poll reported the Tea Party as 89% white, which makes them a lot more diverse than the Times Board. >>> Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com

To: Sully- who wrote (79066)	4/20/2010 3:43:10 PM
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Criminalizing Debate IBD Editorials Posted 04/19/2010 06:58 PM ET Free Speech: Those fighting unprecedented federal expansion appeal to constitutional principles. With Bill Clinton deployed to demonize the Tea Party movement, is it really the Constitution those in power fear? There is something terrifying to Democratic leaders about the flavor and the force of the Tea Party, so on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, they portrayed the group as a bunch of Timothy McVeighs. Joe Klein of Time magazine, whose "anonymous" novel "Primary Colors" sought to immortalize the Clintons, on Sunday told Chris Matthews on NBC that the statements of Fox News commentator Glenn Beck and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin "rub right up close to being seditious." Sedition — it's a word usually reserved for government moles who deliver secrets that uncover our spies and get them killed, or conspirators constructing fertilizer bombs in the basement. Is it really seditious to warn that forcing Americans to buy insurance might violate our constitutional rights? Do you have to be a member of a right-wing militia to worry that we're speeding ever faster toward a fiscal train wreck? Are you a deranged John Hinckley wannabe if you express concern about the administration softening our nuclear use doctrine, or scaling down missile defense? The Democrats see the Tea Party threat as serious enough to send Bill Clinton into the fray. At an event on Friday commemorating the Oklahoma City mass murder, he warned that "the words we use really do matter, because there's this vast echo chamber, and they go across space and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike." This is a repeat performance of a despicable Clinton strategy that, as the Washington Examiner's Byron York recently noted, was used in the immediate aftermath of that 1995 act of terrorism. "Clinton, aided by pollster/adviser Dick Morris, exploited the bombing to make a political comeback" and "devised a plan to use the bombing to discredit and outmaneuver the new Republican majority in Congress." Morris recommended that Clinton impose "intrusive" measures to prevent future violence knowing that they would "provoke outrage by extremist groups who will write their local Republican congressmen." When lawmakers complained, it would link the "right-wing of the party to extremist groups." But Tea Partyers aren't a mob any more than Gen. Washington's troops at Valley Forge were. And they can stand the heat as well as the colonial patriots could stand the cold.