Kansas Tea Party hits big national news as racists

Here we go again, from Yahoo! News and the AP wire Sunday evening: Kansas tea party illustration draws racism claims HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A tea party group in Kansas says its depiction of President Barack Obama as a skunk is satire, not racism as the leader of a civil rights group alleges. Hutchinson-based Patriot Freedom Alliance says on its website that like the president, the skunk is "half black, half white, and almost everything it does stinks." The Hutchinson News (http://bit.ly/vT6l8u) reports local NAACP president Darrell Pope sees no humor in the depiction, which he calls a blatant statement of racism. Local tea party supporter Chuck Sankey says former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been the target of worse insults than what's on the website. See? If they hadn't said anything about being "half black, half white", they might have gotten away with it, without being racist. But they just couldn't leave it alone. Link: http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-tea-party-illustration-draws-racism-claims-012650692.html; Link to reproduction of page with photo here: http://hutchnews.com/Todaystop/tea-party-skunk--1