Captain America comic attacks Tea Parties

After years of bemoaning media bias berpetuated by the New York Times, MSNBC, CBS and their ilk, it's stories like this one from Publius that make me realize that we've only just scratched the surface.

In issue number 602 of Captain America, a new story line has begun called "Two Americas: In it the current Captain (there have been a few of them, apparently) is on the trail of a faux Captain America that is mentally deranged and getting chummy with some white supremacist, anti-government, survivalists types going by the name of "the Watchdogs." While investigating this subversive group, Captain America and his partner The Falcon — a black super hero — have decided to try and infiltrate the secretive organization.

In preparation for the infiltration, Marvel Comics depicts the two super heroes out of costume and observing from a rooftop a street filled with what can only be described as a Tea Party protest. The scene shows crowds of people in city streets carrying signs that say, "stop the socialists," "tea bag libs before they tea bag you," and "no to new taxes." Naturally, the people in these crowds are depicted as being filled with nothing but white folks.

Marvel, according to the Washington Times, says the tea party references were a mistake.

Oh, black people do go to Tea Parties.

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