North Iowa Tea Party Billboard: Obama, Hitler, and Lenin
Tea Party organizers are really seething over the NAACP’s resolution condemning tea party racism: NAACP Resolution Condemning Alleged Tea Party Racism Sparks Attacks. And the right wing blogs are in high dudgeon, screaming that they’re being falsely accused and denying there’s ever been a single extremist or racist at any tea party event ever.
Meanwhile, the North Iowa Tea Party group made the news today, for putting up this billboard:
Oops! Poor timing!
Shelby Blakely, a spokeswoman for the national Tea Party Patriots, says the sign isn’t appropriate. She says her group opposes any comparisons of Obama to Hitler or Lenin.
Nudge nudge, wink wink.