Roundup: Billboard activism soars
* Billboards are becoming a popular way for tea partyers to express their views against President Obama, Salon reports. One activist explained why the tactic works by saying, "Ever been in Houston traffic?"
* More than 50 BP gas stations shut down in London this week as Greenpeace protested the company over the Gulf Coast spill, the Daily Star reports.
* The biggest threat to the tea-party movement may be coming from within its unruly ranks, the Las Vegas Sun writes.
* Politics Daily interviews Andrew Breitbart, the blogger-turn-activist who unveiled the edited video of USDA official Shirley Sherrod speaking on race at an NAACP event.
-- Ambreen Ali, Congress.org
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