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Carson doubles down on dumb. This is self defeating rhetoric. If you want the charge to stick it must really be true. Not everyone in the tea party thinks this way, and it shouldn’t be implied that they do if you want to effectively counter them. I’m picturing Breitbart and Limbaugh rubbing their hands in glee and chortling “See! See! — They are more racist than we! SEE!”

A leading member of the Congressional Black Caucus is standing by incendiary language he used at a recent town hall when he charged that tea-party aligned members of Congress view African Americans as “second-class citizens” and would like to see them “hanging on a tree.”

Rep. Andre Carson’s (D-Ind.) office confirmed that the lawmaker made the remarks at an Aug. 22 CBC Job Tour event in Miami and said that the comments were “prompted in response to frustration voiced by many in Miami and in his home district in Indianapolis regarding Congress’ inability to bolster the economy.”