Black Democratic leaders in Maryland are OUTRAGED over a new radio ad by a black Republican group backing black Republican Michael S. Steele’s senate campaign. They’re so outraged that Steele himself has become outraged, even though he didn’t have any problems with the ad yesterday. Before the outrage.

Why so angry? Because the ad says Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. And that Democrats fought every piece of civil rights legislation for a solid century … because what else can you expect from the Ku Klux Klan?

You know, the truth … the kind of thing that confuses the masses! Hear the ad, after the jump.

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Yes, we’ve already blogged about this Washington Post article. But we missed something that a reader pointed out to us, so kindly permit us to return once more to the well. MORE »

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