Under fire from Republicans for a fundraising email that compared the Tea Party to the KKK, Alan Grayson responded by calling the Tea Party "the home of bigotry and discrimination in America today, just as the KKK was for an earlier generation," reports the Huffington Post.

"Tea Party members have circulated countless altered pictures depicting President Obama and the First Lady as monkeys," Grayson said in a written statement. Grayson went on to claim that Tea Party members had previously referred to Rep. John Lewis and former Rep. Barney Frank using bigoted slurs.

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"One could go on and on," Grayson said, "because there is overwhelming evidence that the Tea Party is the home of bigotry and discrimination in America today, just as the KKK was for an earlier generation."

"If the hood fits," he concluded, "wear it."

Read Grayson's full statement, via the Huffington Post:

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