The New York Puke, err Times strikes again

Anyone who reads it knows the New Your Times Iditorial pages are even more unbelievable than its news sections. The are really into "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?" But this crap from Charles Blow goes even more than normal in their daily request of willing supension of reality.

Racist. Tea Party.

Are those separate concepts or a single one? Depends on whom you ask.

According to an article accompanying a Washington Post/ABC News poll released on Wednesday: “About 61 percent of tea party opponents say racism has a lot to do with the movement, a view held by just 7 percent of tea party supporters.”

This gulf of perception has left Tea Party organizers struggling to scrub the stain of racism from its image, but those efforts may fly in the face of the facts.

OK. In the brain of Mr. Blow the fact that 61% of Tea Party opponents think the movement is racist is a fact to base an argument on. But I digress.

There is no way to know how many Tea Party supporters — or supporters of any group — are motivated by racism, or to what degree. For instance, one could legitimately ask: to what degree is African-American support of the president motivated by racial pride, and when does that pride cross over into prejudice?

There are no easy answers, but blanket accusations and denials are worthless and disingenuous.

OK Chuck, "blanket accusations and denials are worthless and disingenuous." yet that is exactly what you make by calling the Tea Party movement racist.

However, widely cited polling, like the multistate University of Washington survey released last month, has found that large swaths among those who show strong support for the Tea Party also hold the most extreme views on a range of racial issues. The fringe theory is a farce.

OK again Chuck, would you give an example of an "extreme view". Or is this one of those "blanket accusations" you think are "worthless and disingenuous"....except when you make them.

Tea Party organizers may want to run away from the facts, but they’re not that fast, and the American people are not that slow.

No Chuck, like your paper's "news division" this are just worthless and disingenuous blanket accusaions. If you could give one example of a Tea Party memeber showing racism you would have had been at the top of your article. The reason it's not just shows the weakness of your opinion.