Hilary Shelton: offended by a t-shirt

The most interesting interview on the news last night had to be Bill O'Reilly's with Hilary Shelton, head of the the Washington, D.C., NAACP. Mr. Shelton seems like a great guy with a sweet smile and an elegant manner, but sadly he was absolutely exposed in the interview as a hypocrite.
  He accused the tea partiers of nurturing racist behavior in their midst, repeatedly saying tea partiers had  not renounced racists in their midst. When asked for proof of racism, Mr. Shelton said again and again it was a body of evidence that had been accumulated. When pressed, he said he hadn't seen but had heard about a t-shirt some guy was supposed to be wearing at a rally. Of course, this photograph may have been taken of an imposter or even not at the rally but substituted by Media Matters, which has been proven to create false "evidence."
  The interview went on and the elegant Mr. Shelton was nonplussed to answer the questions regarding the Rev. Wrights and his ilk nurtured in the midst of the NAACP, shouting of their hatred of whites and Jews.
  Is this what the NAACP has come to? Is this what civil rights mean in the 21st century? Is offense at a t-shirt worn by a tea partier or imposter the source of great angst by a people who has been so maligned historically? When did we go from being whipped in the cotton fields, crying out for freedom and justice, to the White House, to being offended by someone wearing a stupid t-shirt? 
  Watch and wonder.
  Article over at Mediaite: