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DAILY CALLER: Newsweekly falsely speculates arson suspect is Tea Party activist: Writer says Tea Pa?

By Glenn Reynolds

DAILY CALLER: Newsweekly falsely speculates arson suspect is Tea Party activist: Writer says Tea Party activists can?t take a joke.

A writer for a St. Louis alternative newsweekly tells The Daily Caller he does not regret speculating in a story that the suspect of an attempted arson of a Democratic congressman?s campaign office was a Tea Party activist.

It turns out that the suspect in this week?s firebombing of Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan?s campaign office in St. Louis was actually a liberal blogger and former paid campaign worker for Carnahan?s campaign.

?As to the legions of Tea Party adherents who are calling for my head: No, I have no regrets. I was having fun ? at their expense,? River Front Times reporter Chad Garrison said in an email.

Related: TPM Muckraker Comes Clean ? Admits Their Blogger Is Suspected Carnahan Firebomber.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 26, 2010 (boomark / email).