Tag: Tea Party racism

[New York City]--Last week, I went back to my homeland-New York City. I wanted to get a message through to the Supreme Allied Commander of the Colbert Super PAC Nation...On 14 July, the Israeli High Court justices ruled that Vanunu’s petition to have his citizenship revoked under the recently passed Citizenship Revocation Law must be answered within 30 days. That deadline expired yesterday...

Don't look for the Tea Party to check Israeli militarism

Steve Benen has an excellent piece in the Washington Monthly on the Tea Party's incoherence and blind emotion. If we take the Tea Party seriously about...

 - Stupid, white people do not mess with the memory of Dr. King and then get away with it - By mal I spent a lot...

I am not sure when I first detected the noxious fumes that would envelop the conservative movement in the Obama era. It might have been early on, in April 2009, when I visited a series of gun shows in rural California and Nevada. Perusing tables piled high with high-caliber semi-automatic weapons and chatting with anyone in my vicinity, I heard urgent warnings of mass roundups, concentration camps, and a socialist government in Washington. "These people that are purchasing these guns are people that are worried about what's going on in this country," a gun dealer told me outside a show in Reno. "Good luck Obama," a young gun enthusiast remarked to me. "We outnumber him 100 to 1." At this time, the Tea Party movement had not even registered on the national media's radar.

No wonder rightwing extremist Andrew Breitbart is so angry about the outrageous insult to his fellow clansmen. Can't imagine where that "racist" NAACP came up with the crazy idea that there are "elements of racism" in the Tea Party. [Hat-tip Maddow Blog.]

By Joan Walsh in Salon  Just days after insisting there are no racists in the Tea Party movement, Tea Party Federation leader David Webb told...

What If the Tea Party Were Black? Somehow, I don't see words parity and equality coming to mind. The Tea Party appeals to racists, have racists...

- Instead of saying racism is unacceptable in their movement, Palin and Tea Party leaders pretend the NAACP called them all racists. Call it...

- Tea Partier: NAACP "make(s) more money off of race than any slave trader ever." - The white race baiters in our political culture assure...