Hate-mongering at Reuters (and elsewhere)

From a news "analysis" story written by Patricia Zengerle at Reuters:

Images such as Obama with a bone through his nose and the White House with a lawn full of watermelons are often displayed at Tea Party rallies.

Often? I have been to a lot of Tea Parties and I have never seen either. Her next sentence is one of those easy smears:

Tea party leaders say the movement is not racist but concede there are racist fringe elements in its membership.

Have you ever read a MSM story that said "Democrats say their party is not racist but concede there are racist fringe elements in its membership"? No, I didn't think so.

Newsbusters has written Reuters asking for either documention of the alleged signs or a retraction of the charge.

MORE: Last week, The New York Times published a hate-filled rant by Matt Bai claiming that Tea Party. Today, the New York Times felt the need to publish a partial correction but continues with the same general accusation:

The Political Times column last Sunday, about a generational divide over racial attitudes, erroneously linked one example of a racially charged statement to the Tea Party movement. While Tea Party supporters have been connected to a number of such statements, there is no evidence that epithets reportedly directed in March at Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, outside the Capitol, came from Tea Party members.

Power Line has more.

STILL MORE: Radio talk show host Warren Ballentine says "Tea Party ideology" is racist (and hurls a racial epithet at Juan Williams):



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•Collected photos of this year's San Francisco Tea Party events
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•Videos of the October 15 San Francisco Tea Party
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