Nothing racist, freakish or nuts about Tea Party

I WONDER if your columnist Steven King has any idea of just how offensive was his column (October 6) on the US Tea Party?

Typically for an Irish commentator, his attacks on the Tea Party are completely unoriginal and he merely echoes US Democratic party attacks on it.

These include baseless charges of “closet racism” – a charge he uncritically accepts on the basis of no evidence whatsoever. And of course the pro-Democratic media on both sides of the Atlantic will call them “freaks” and “nuts”.