ago and she told the story to unite people because she s since realized that race is not everything. this after the national tea party federation kicked out mark williams for his racist statements, including a letter he wrote to lincoln, calling slavery a great gig. the letter was a response to the naacp s resolution denouncing the tea party movement. here s our panel editorial write for the washington post. this will be our one and only topic. jonathan, you think she should have been fired. no. and i m only speaking for myself. when you look at the facts including the interview on cnn. this is something that happened in 1986. she was working for a georgia
leadership. every tea partier is a tea party leader but something happens when the stronger pears in a movement begin to feel a sense of ownership. even though he put out this statement, the controversy may be starting to subside. the president of the naacp, ben gel house, said he was pleased that national tea party federation had gone out and taken that step to boot out the tea party express and mark williams from their organize. what s with all of the tea party groups? why can t it be more organized and have one streamlined mantra? reporter: this has gone on since the givenings of the tea party movement. you have the tea party express that had the bus tours that were successful all over the country and the tea party patriots, a very different organization. the national tea party federation is a new organization
leader of the bus tours to write what he thought was a sat tear kel letter from the head of naacp to abraham lincoln. over the weekend, a spokesman for another tea party group, the national tea party federation said they had had enough. we in the last 24 hours have expelled tea party express and mark williams from the national tea party federation because of the letter that he wrote which he, i guess, may have considered satire but which is clearly offensive. self-policing is the right and responsibility of any movement or organization. reporter: now, mark williams, he says he is finished giving interviews on the subject and cancelled an appearance on cnn yesterday but he did release a statement slamming the national tea party federation. he says, apparently i have offended the tea party
toward the gulf of mexico. they re not developing it much but anything that gets in there we have to watch this time of year. we want to give you a heads up and let everyone know what s going on. thanks. day 91 in the gulf oil disaster and a new glitch. parentally there to cab leak in the capped off oil well. the government is giving bp another 24 hours to test the integrity of the cap. the security of this country is unwieldy and unmanage about and inefficient. no one knows how much the intelligence gathering is coasting us. the washington post says 33 building complexes under construction or have been built since 9/11 and found 854,000 people hold top secret security clearance. curtains for mark williams. the national tea party federation has expelled him and
now. bp is still testing the pressure in the well, despite seepage coming from the sea floor. scientists say they don t know yet what is seeping but it is not coming from the bustedwellhead. the tea party express is distancing itself from the tea party federation. the coordinator of the tea party express says most of its activists are, quote, focused on taking back their country, not silly power games being played by individuals such as those in the federation. no word yet on how zsa zsa gabor is doing. he was injured falling out of bed. some incredible music has risen out of the deep south. for one mississippi down, it is a saving grace. oney in the bank check the gas in the tank check the hottie walking by. .wait that s a dude, no thanks check the new hairdo check the mic one two