New York Times Op-Ed Accuses Tea Party Of 'Assaults On Public Official

Mark Finkelstein
February 2nd, 2013 8:45 AM
Looks like liberals are still trying to peddle the discredited allegation that Tea Party members attacked black members of Congress. The op-ed page of today's New York Times contains a column by James Sleeper, a long-time left-wing activist, now a lecturer at Yale.  The gist is the grudging respect that Sleeper came to have for Ed Koch, the former New York City mayor who passed away two days…