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In hour two, Boston Herald business reporter Jay Fitzgerald and I discussed the Tea party coming to town this week. We began by speculating who would, and would not show up. Jay and I agreed that it was unlikely that Charlie Baker, for example, would be there. According to the people’s paper, The Herald, Scott Brown will not be there.

The discussion took a turn when the inevitable issue of race and the Tea party's came up. Jay said he believed there was an element of racism in the Tea Parties. I countered that whatever that element was, it was no more, and probably less, than it would be in any gathering of a few thousand citizens.

My personal opinion is that the Democrats are deliberately trying to stoke racial tension as part of a political strategy. It is despicable and shameful. They have either made up incidents out of whole cloth, or taken the needle in the haystack and used it to smear the entire movement. The callers, tired of being labeled racists, went after Jay pretty good. Jay noted on Hub Blog this morning,

I was called a “moonbat” last night on Kevin’ss show for daring to suggest that there were some racist elements within the Tea Party movement (not a majority; just an element). I suppose it’s only a matter of time before I’m called a hatemonger by some lefties for not believing that the Tea Party is the second coming of Nazi Germany.

We’ll see on Wednesday.

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