Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) calls the police after a Glenn Beck post incites the Tea Party [View all]

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http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/04/5782756/yvette-clarke-calls-police-after-glenn-beck-post-incites-tea-party

Representative Yvette Clarke of Brooklyn said tonight that she notified the Capitol police force of threatening phone calls made to her office, after Glenn Beck's website posted a video that appeared to show her criticizing Tea Party protesters.

In the video, which shows Clarke talking to the Prospect Heights Democrats for Reform earlier this month, the congresswoman says members of Congress were spit on and called racial epithets during the health care debate, and that the protesters showed the "ugliest sides of the United States of America that you can imagine."

Clarke said in a release that it was "extremely disappointing" that the comments had been edited to appear out of context.

The video is a production of Breitbart TV, the outfit established by the late conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, who drew national attention when he posted an edited video of former USDA official Shirley Sherrod which appeared to show her making racist remarks.