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Schools Matter: Why Is Newsweek Protecting the Tea Party from Wake County Schools Connection?

Schools Matter: Why Is Newsweek Protecting the Tea Party from Wake County Schools Connection?

Why Is Newsweek Protecting the Tea Party from Wake County Schools Connection?

Since Stephen Colbert's skewering of Tedesco and the "choice" crowd that would choose to resegregate and contain poor kids in Wake County's poor neighborhoods, the Tea Partiers appear to have moved further back under their rocks. Why, Jenny Beth Martin, while no doubt furiously fanning herself, told Newsweek that, my goodness good sir, she has never even heard of any such thing in Wake County (see text below the video clip).

It's too bad Newsweek prefers to take the tea baggers at their word, rather than doing some research like, uh, googling "john tedesco" and "tea party." If they had bothered, they would have found a whole page of reasons to suspect, heavens to Betsy, mendacity on the part Jenny Beth and her group.

This piece from the News-Observer early last year clearly shows the influence and money trail from the NC