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Despite the right's efforts to
tout its diversity, left-wing firebrands continue slapping the white-people label on conservatives. Last week, Keith Olbermann
led the charge asking "Where are the black faces?" at Tea Party gatherings. On Monday night, Jon Stewart called CPAC "this year's Festival of Whites."
There is of course some truth to the charge. A new CNN
poll
shows the Tea Party movement is 80 percent white. As left-leaning blogger Matthew Yglesias
said dryly of the poll:
The
"tea party" movement sweeping the nation is disproportionately composed
of individuals who have higher-than-average incomes. It's also
disproportionately composed of men. And disproportionately composed of
white people.
However often the left makes the charge, the right is quick to rebut that the Democratic leadership--let alone
the MSNBC line-up--are hardly bastions of racial diversity.
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