[Gathnet] Racism in the Tea Party movement?

[Stuart Gathman]

A poorly executed instance of lying propaganda provides insight into how
it is done.  Goebbels is rolling over in his grave (at the sloppy
execution, not the intent).

At a leftist site, we have a video "proving" that the Tea Party is racist:

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/14/tea-party-racism/

However, the clips were edited from Tea Party video, and viewing the
context leads to an entirely different conclusion.  For instance,
activist #1 has black wife and biracial kid edited out, and his entire
comment is that Obama's *heart* is too black.

Incredibly, #2 was a Think Progress plant, and the sign held up by the
real tea partiers is still partially visible, even in the edited video
they post!   In the full video, the infiltrator is followed by people
holding the sign which points at him and says, "Soros paid stooge,
communist infiltrator, not a tea partier: we're not with stupid!"

One of the conservative blogs uncovering the propaganda misfire:

http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2010/07/think-progress-proves-tea-party-is-not.html