The canard that just won’t die
Matt Bai, whom we often like, wrote this in the NYT about the Tea Party movement:
There have been scattered reports around the country of racially charged rhetoric within the movement, most notably just before the vote on the new health care law last March, when Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, the legendary civil rights leader, was showered with hateful epithets outside the Capitol.
It’s been a long time since that original report in March. Long enough for the Times to figure out what Powerline and its readers and so many have known for quite a while: the story isn’t true. But it just won’t die.