NAACP President: Tea Party Leaders Use Racism Like Gas on Flame

Benjamin Jealous continues his rhetorical assault on the Tea Party movement. He charges them with using racism and homophobia to further a conservative political agenda. But when questioned on his organization’s stance against Tea Parties in July, Mr. Jealous insisted that he was NOT saying that the Tea Party was racist, he claimed then that he was merely asking for Tea Party leadership to condemn bigots in their ranks (which they have).