Amazing.
As my NewsBusters colleague Curtis Houck colleague Curtis Houck headlined:
Election Interference: CNN Uses Audio of Private Briefing to Falsely Smear GOP’s Scott Perry
In which Curtis notes CNN’s Annie Grayer has a story based on audio of a private meeting involving, full disclosure, my very own Pennsylvania Congressman, Republican Scott Perry. In which it is alleged that “Perry told colleagues in a closed door briefing that:
The KKK in modern times, a lot of young people think somehow it’s a right-wing organization when it is the military wing of the Democratic Party. Decidedly, unabashedly, racist and antisemitic,” Perry said according to the recording.
Grayer added that “The KKK is not affiliated in any way with the modern Democratic Party.”
Grayer was not alone in flipping out at Perry’s remarks.
The Philadelphia…
