AP Admits Rep. Heath Shuler Did Not Hear Tea Party Racial Slurs...AFTER WSJ Writer Investigates

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On the heels of a story a couple of days ago which used Congressman Heath Shuler as a source about how racial slurs were probably hurled at the Washington, D.C. Tea Party on March 20, the Associated Press has been forced to backtrack. Here is how AP writer Jesse Washington used what Heath Shuler supposedly heard to promote the idea of a Tea Party chock full of racists:

A fourth Democrat, Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina, who is white, backed up his colleagues, telling the Henderson (N.C.) Times-News that he heard the slurs.

Unfortunately for Mr. Washington's premise, this fiction has now been undone by Shuler himself. Here is the AP correction...

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