Tea-partier unloads on Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson for KKK email (UPDATED)

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WND   "Outspoken Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson is facing considerable outrage after comparing the tea party to the Ku Klux Klan in a new fundraising email.
"In the final days of the government shutdown, Grayson told MSNBC’s Al Sharpton he believes the tea party is about as popular as the KKK. He is now circulating a fundraising email that shows a burning cross and two Klansmen in the background. The graphic uses the cross to begin spelling out “tea party,” and the caption reads, “Now You Know What the ‘T’ Stands For.”

"The following is an image of the email:


UPDATE: Armed Mommy asks us to photo bomb Grayson's Facebook page with this photo.

Jennifer Burke, national outreach director for TheTeaParty.net, which is the largest grassroots tea-party group in the nation addresses Grayson's remarks to Sharpton.  (Audio at the link)
“He’s taken the history of the Democratic Party – because they were the party of the KKK. They were the ones that were burning crosses and lynching black people and shooting them because they were the wrong color – he’s applying that horrible time in our history to a group of people who simply want constitutionally limited government and who want the government to respect the freedoms that the Constitution grants us in our God-given rights,” Burke told WND.
"Grayson is not backing down. The man who once said the GOP health-care plan was for people to die quickly and once called an opponent a member of the Taliban, doubled down when questioned about the fundraising message.
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