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MARK STEYN: The Democrats? Fake Hate Crime. ?I disagree with John Lewis (Democrat, Georgia) politi?

By Glenn Reynolds

MARK STEYN: The Democrats’ Fake Hate Crime. “I disagree with John Lewis (Democrat, Georgia) politically but I have always respected him as a genuine civil rights warrior. And I feel slightly queasy at the thought that he would dishonor both the movement and his own part in it for the cheapest of partisan points – in the same way I would be disgusted by a Holocaust survivor painting a swastika on his own door and blaming it on his next-door neighbor over a boundary dispute. But that’s what the Democratic Party has been reduced to – faking hate crimes as pathetically as any lonely, mentally ill college student.”

(Via Obama voter Ann Althouse, who comments: “By the way, I called bullshit on the story as soon as it was reported.” Video of her doing so is below, more at the link.)

Also: Don’t Leave It To Cleaver.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).