ACTIVIST 1: He’s too black to be President.
"And if you look at my wife, you'll see it's not about his skin color. It's about the blackness of his heart." (His wife is black, and his son is standing next to him.) Think Progress didn't tell you about the *blackness of his heart* comment, did they.
ACTIVIST 2: I’m a proud racist, I’m white.
This guy was confronted, and kicked out of the Tea Party. Think Progress didn't tell you that, in their video, did they. They also cropped the video so you couldn't see all the Tea Partiers following him around with "INFILTRATOR" signs.
ACTIVIST 3: Afro-Leninism! Coming to you on a silver platter, Barack Hussein Obama!
What the heck is Afro-Leninism? Michael Savage apparently calls Obama that, so no doubt this guy listens to Savage. Does that qualify as racist? Bush was called all kinds of names like Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, etc.
ACTIVIST 4: Go home wetbacks!
This was from 2006. Once Think Progress was called out for it, they removed it from the video. (There weren't any Tea Parties in 2006.)You would think if there were SO many instances of racism at the tea parties, Think Progress wouldn't have to fabricate them and go back to 2006. This guy is racist, but not a tea partier.
ACTIVIST 5: Why do you hate Mexicans? Answer: Because they're filthy, stinking animals.
ACTIVIST 6: You're a faggot.
Funny that a group, One Wisconsin Now, that purposefully set out to infiltrate and counter protest managed to capture one guy, arguing with someone, and calling them a fag. Hmmm, that's not suspicious at all. Makes one wonder what was being said to him, and by who, and how it just so happened to be caught on camera, by One Wisconsin Now.
Otherwise, without the heckling and infiltrators, (and this one instance of ugly name calling, by an Americans for Prosperity member) it was a peaceful protest.
ACTIVIST 7: We can't kill Obama.
This guy, shockingly enough, was defended in a dairy, by someone at Daily Kos, "The guy who says "We Can’t Kill Obama" wasn’t advocating it, he was advocating defeating them electorally, because that’s what he said next." This is all I could find below, and he is not advocating killing Obama.
MAX: Who do you think is more dangerous Al Quaeda or OBama?ACTIVISTS 8 and 9: INFILTRATORS
MAN: Obama.
MAX: Obama's more dangerous than Osama?
MAN: Absolutely.
MAX: Why?
MAN: He's trying to change the country from within. We can fight Al Quaeda, we can't kill Obama.
I seriously can not believe that Think Progress included these two images in their video. These guys are phony tea party infiltrators. Tea Partiers are really going to hold up signs announcing how *white* they are? Here is the White People are Pissed sign, from a counter protest rally, Crash the Tea Party in Boston. And the This Sign is the Brownest thing... sign.
ACTIVIST 10: T-Shirt Yup I'm a racist.
The Shirt Says on the Front: Yup, I'm a Racist
On the Back: if the Government Says so Because...
I support the ConstitutionIt's interesting that Think Progress put together such a sloppy, dishonest video. Perhaps because the usual clips and images we see of Obama involving a monkey (monkey see, monkey spend, held by a ~13 year old kid), witch doctor and Hitler were so prevelant during the Bush years, it's impossible to now claim those same exact images are *racist*.
I support Free Speech
I support the Right to Bear Arms
I support the Bill of Rights
I support Capitalism
I support NO Government Bailouts
I support closing the border
I support the Military
I support the Tea Party
I support Jesus Christ as My Savior.
And it's impossible to say that the Right, or Tea Partiers, have cornered the market on hate.
Obama supporters now even want to claim a billboard of Obama with Hitler and Stalin is racist, despite all kinds of disparaging billboards that ran during the Bush years. (what's with the CONSTANT charges of *racism* anyway? How is this racist? Stupid, maybe. Mean? But racist?)
The Tea Party has been smeared from one end to the other. Members of Congress have lied about them, saying they were spit on, and called the n-word, and been disproven. The NAACP announced their plans to denounce the Tea Party as racist, and has now backpedaled, but has ignored their own racism, and that of the New Black Panther Party. Tea Party leaders have publicly condemned any violence and racism, despite all of the lies, distortions and smears against them, that have been proven false.
But that still isn't enough.
Yes, there are racists, and mean evil bigots in the world. And we saw a couple in the video above. But not all of those people were Tea Party people, and not all Tea Party people are racists.
And there are plenty of racists and bigots in the Democratic party.... Funny how they like to forget their long history of NOT supporting civil rights. And it's ok to have been in the KKK if you are a Democrat. You're just a good ol' boy, trying to get elected. And you can call black people *boy* if you're a liberal. But you're a racist if you're a Conservative.
I think the last race card has been played. It no longer has any meaning. It has become a joke. Enough, already. Really.
H/T Left Coast Rebel, Right Klik and all the sites they have linked. They all did some awesome leg work on this.
Great post, linked you as an update and also have you featured at the start page too...
ReplyDeleteGreat post... thanks for the link!
ReplyDelete13% of the population is black. Clinton and Gore got more than 90% of the black vote. Kerry got 88%. Obama got 96%.
ReplyDeleteObama won the election with 52.9% of the total popular vote. But McCain got only 4% of the black vote. If the black vote would have been split -- say 60% for Obama, and 40% McCain, that would have resulted in a 5.2% swing and McCain would have won the popular vote (I'm not sure how the electoral college vote would have turned out).
But the point is that the Democrats are constantly screaming racism where none exists because if they lose, say, half the black vote, or 6.5% of the electorate, the Democratic Party is in deep trouble.
And, ironically, under a black president, more blacks seem to be turning to conservatism. Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Ken Blackwell, Condi Rice, Lt. Col. Allen West, Michael Williams, Tim Scott, Herman Cain and countless others are oustanding black conservative role models. They have the Democrats very scared they may be losing the virtual monopoly on the black vote that they have enjoyed for the past 45 years.
That's why I think the left is constantly screaming racism where none exists. They have to scare blacks into believing conservatives and Republicans are nasty evil racist people because the blacks are such a huge part of the Democratic coalition. If more and more blacks start to identify with conservatism, and start to vote for Republicans, the Democrats are done. They just don't have the numbers to win elections if half the blacks vote Republican.
--SCOTT
Most excellent comment, Scott!
ReplyDeleteWow great post, I'm glad I clicked when I saw a comment of yours on the PJ site. Very thorough research.
ReplyDeleteThanks Left Coast, Right Klik and Someone of importance. :O)
ReplyDeleteI just expanded on the great work of LCR, RK and others!
Great post, AGII - I was just thinking abt the collages you did (above) the other day. People have mighty short memories, don't they?
ReplyDeleteAnd it sure seems that things that were okay to say abt every other president, or anyone running for higher office, are considered out of bounds for Obama. That's some bubble he has, huh?
Keep up the great work!
Hi RRRAmy! :O)
ReplyDeleteIt is appalling isn't it? I have been keeping up on the list - just not commenting much. Don't you just love all the Hillary talk?
Those fools!
We triiiiiiiiieeeeeeedd to tell them.
hehe hugs!
Hey! I have missed you, AGII - I trust you know that. Such a great voice you have, friend.
ReplyDeleteYes - ironic that everyone is talking abt Hillary now - and hell to the yes, we tried to tell them. I honestly do not see her running unless Obama decides not to run (I can kinda see that - now that he's found out that being president is "hard work" and all. Ahem.). After what happened at the Convention when she SHOULD have gotten the nomination, I just don't see a challenge by her being welcomed by the DNC.
Did you see the good post by Deroy Murdock abt the NAACP and the Tea Party? It's a good read.
Nice to *see* you again! Hugs back at ya!
That is Mark Williams in clip 5, no? How come you say nothing about him, care to deny he is a hugh tea party leader who undermines your claim that racism is nonexistent or negligible in the movement?
ReplyDeleteWhere do I say racism is non-existent? I believe I have often stated that racism exists, and that there are always fringe elements to any group.
ReplyDeleteAnd you mean Mark Williams, the guy the Tea Party kicked to the curb?
"We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote," Webb said of Williams' blog post that satirized a fictional letter from what he called "Colored People" to President Abraham Lincoln.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/18/tea.party.imbroglio/index.html?fbid=uD1TWtEkScM
Considering the tea party movements was a completely real grass roots movement, it has been quite easy for anyone to jump on board and declare themselves *a leader*. Lots of people have tried to capitalize on the movement, the exposure and the attention.
Honestly, I don't know who that is in clip #5. If it is Mark, that still doesn't prove it was a tea party event, and not an immigration rally.
Why don't you comment on all the shoddy lies that Think Progress put together?