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Wrong.

It's amazing how the folks using the "Tea Party" moniker are shaping political discourse in the US today -- and successfully distracting us from the important issues. Today, what stories should be all over the media? President Obama signed sweeping financial reform into law. Secretary of State Clinton announced new sanctions against North Korea. What IS all over the media? Shirley Sherrod might not want her job back even if the White House offers it to her. So the NAACP criticized the Tea Party folks for some of the "elements of racism" within their ranks. A couple of Tea Party folks got their noses out of joint and decided to "prove" that the NAACP was being hypocritical, because it was welcoming racists of its own. Enter Andrew Breitbart, a conservative blogger who gets FAR more attention than his ideas merit. He posted a heavily edited video of a USDA regional coordinator giving a speech to the NAACP that made it seem as if she were admitting to