The Strange Case of Conservatives Calling John Lewis a Liar

(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) — I just had lunch with John Lewis, the Atlanta congressman and civil rights icon, who finds himself the subject of an unlikely controversy. After Lewis and two other black Democrats reported in late March that they had been the subject of an ugly racial epithet — and worse — by tea party activists as the health care vote neared, some conservative activists struck back by alleging that the name-calling never took place.

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